Theatre That Starts A Conversation
As it has become quite clear that the COVID-19 crisis will last longer than we anticipated only a few weeks ago, the FBNP Board has made the decision to CANCEL our June performance dates and POSTPONE TEN CHIMNEYS to SEPTEMBER 18-26, 2020, FBNP’s first production of our 38th Season.
The Revolutionists
by Lauren Gunderson, Directed by Doug Mackie
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September 20, 21, 27 & 28 at 7:30 pm & September 22 at 2 pm, 2019
The French Revolution’s Reign of Terror is in full swing. Meet 4 bad-ass women: A playwright, an assassin, a Haitian rebel, and a former queen, who are intent on making their voices heard! This is a woman-powered Comedy about violence & legacy, theatre & activism, feminism & terrorism, compatriots & chosen sisters, trying to beat back the extremist insanity of 1793 Paris.
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Note: Mature Content.
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Bijou Room, Five Flags Center, 405 Main St, Dubuque, IA 52001
Tickets: $20 available through ticketmaster.com, Five Flags Box Office
and at the door 1 hour before showtime.
THE MOUNTAINTOP
By Katori Hall, Directed by Lenore Howard
January 31, February 1 & 7, 8, at 7:30 pm & February 2 at 2:00 pm, 2020
On April 3, 1968, we find Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his room at The Lorraine Motel the night before his assassination. When a mysterious stranger arrives with surprising news, Dr. King is compelled to confront his destiny and his legacy to his people.
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This is a fictional, re-imagined depiction of events with mature themes in which we encounter an exhausted Dr. King in his privacy and, in the end, celebrate him through a lens more moving and inspiring than sainthood.
Note: Mature themes
Bijou Room, Five Flags Center, 405 Main St, Dubuque, IA 52001
Tickets: $20 available through ticketmaster.com, Five Flags Box Office
and at the door 1 hour before showtime.
TEN CHIMNEYS
By Jeffrey Hatcher, Directed by Sunil Malapati
Postponed Until September 2020
A soap-opera comedy with a Noel Coward touch. Summer, 1938, the famous Broadway legends, Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, retreat as they always did in real-life, to their summer Wisconsin estate, Ten Chimneys. With other actors, family and hangers-on, they engage in pre-rehearsal work on a Chekov play. Ten Chimneys is about theatre folk: Funny, poignant, and revealing in its look at these private lives that never really leave the stage. The play is Hatcher’s homage to this place of vibrant creativity and the historic big personalities who inhabited it. Today Ten Chimneys estate in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, continues and is open for public tours.
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Bijou Room, Five Flags Center, 405 Main St, Dubuque, IA 52001
Tickets: $20 available through ticketmaster.com, Five Flags Box Office
and at the door 1 hour before showtime.
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Our 2019-2020 Season
Our shows are performed in the Bijou Room, Five Flags Civic Center, 4th & Main Streets, Dubuque, IA (as mapped below),