Cloud County Community College's Theatre Department to Present Digging up Dessa

Cloud County Community College’s Theatre Department will present its spring play, “Digging up Dessa” April 1-3 in Cook Theatre on the Concordia campus.  Showtime for April 1 and 2 will be at 7 pm, with a matinee performance on April 3 at 2 pm.  Tickets are $5, but Cloud County students will be admitted free.

Dessa is a 21st-century girl with no shortage of struggles, secrets, and mysteries to solve.  From dinosaur bones to hidden memories, the world is filled with buried treasures just waiting to be uncovered.  Luckily, thanks to the mysterious appearance of a remarkable friend—the pioneering 19th-century English paleontologist Mary Anning—young Dessa knows just how to excavate them! After a field trip to a museum reveals that Mary Anning’s legacy has been buried by history because of her gender and lack of formal education, Dessa decides that she’s going to fight to earn her friend the credit she deserves.  With help from her once-rival, Nilo, Dessa sets to work unearthing the secrets hidden beneath the surface of the past and present—for Mary’s history and her own future.

The cast for the play includes: Dessa, Justine Kane, Clinton, Iowa; Dessa’s mother, Esther, Aeryn Rekward, Wamego, Kan.; Dessa’s science fair partner, Nilo, Jeremiah Johnson, Salina, Kan.; and Mary Anning, Avery Brown, Mankato, Kan.

The play will be directed by Dr. Julia Galm, Cloud County Speech and English instructor.  Contact Galm at julia.galm@cloud.edu, or (785) 243-1435, ext. 241, for more information.