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SATE announces 2025 Season of Adventure SATE presents its “Season of Adventure” with the ninth annual Aphra Behn Festival and Classic Adventure Movie or Never Say Die, written and conceived by Cassidy Flynn, Keating, and Rachel Tibbetts. To kick off the 2025 “Season of Adventure,” SATE will present its ninth annual Aphra Behn Festival, April 3-5, 2025, at The Chapel. The Aphra Behn Festival is named for the fascinating poet, translator, and spy Aphra Behn, who is widely considered to be the first English woman to make her living as a playwright. When established in 2017, a goal of the Aphra Behn Festival was to give women interested in directing and writing for theatre an opportunity to get more experience, try out ideas, experiment, and hone their craft. SATE continues to expand the mission to make the festival a more inclusive space for transgender and non-binary artists, as well. In 2025, SATE will produce the following original plays. The Inferno is for B*tches by Aurora Behlke, directed by Kayla Lindsay Featuring Claudia Barney, Celeste Gardner, Bradley Rohlf
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Heaven McPherson-Petermeyer did NOT do her book report on Dante’s Inferno. Instead, she was busy getting totally sucked into a journey through real-life Hell. With the power of punk music, she must find her way back home… and delete the friggin’ illegal copy of Detective Pikachu off of her family computer ASAP. Felicity by Dylan Malloy, directed by Ashwini Arora Featuring Lydia (Lyd) Foss, Rosemary Shawver As billionaires take off into space to colonize Mars, Will and June, two impoverished teenagers from a droughtstricken town, watch the rocket launch and reflect upon their lifelong friendship. June is devastated when she learns that Will is obsessed with the impossible hope of leaving Earth behind forever–and her along with it. Scenes from Pierrot’s Blanket by Meredith Lyons, directed by Christina Yancy Featuring Miranda Jagels Félix, Joseph Garner, Kaylyn McKoy, Jan Niehoff Embark on a surreal journey with Pierre as he navigates the landscape of your wildest dreams, desperately searching for his missing blanket on a quest that stands between him and his favorite activity, jamming out on his guitar. Revel in delight
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as he meets a charming, colorful parade of peculiar personalities. SATE’s 2025 Aphra Behn Festival is made possible by funding from the Missouri Arts Council and the Steve Nelson Memorial Playwright’s Fund. The second show in the 2025 season is Classic Adventure Movie or Never Say Die written by Keating and conceived by Cassidy Flynn, Keating, and Rachel Tibbetts (also directing), running September 11-27, 2025 at The Chapel. In a world where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems, a group of misfits discovers an ancient map and sets out on a daring quest to save the world. Heroes! Villains! Magic! Treasure! Cyndi Lauper? Not just your basic, average, everyday, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, ho-hum story. You will find adventure, or adventure will find you. Utilizing a script development approach that combines storytelling elements from SATE’s productions of Classic Mystery Game and First Impressions, Classic Adventure Movie is the second genre parody play created by SATE working towards a triumvirate. Funding for Classic Adventure Movie or Never Say Die made possible by Missouri Arts Council. For more information, visit satestl.org call/text 314-827-5760 email stl.sate@gmail.com