Each weekend in October, the St. Louis Park theater company Maggie's Farm will be holding performances of "Foxfire," an Appalachian folk tale set to music, at the Lenox Community Theater.
Shows start at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and cost $10 at the door.
On its website, Maggie's Farm outlines the details of the production:
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Foxfire glows in the dark in the forest of southern Appalachia. It is a lichen that lives on dead, fallen trees. It serves as a metaphor for this play about the beliefs and personalities of a fading generation; the last of the indomitable pioneers who carved out of unwelcoming mountain soil not only a living but a tough, joyous way of life which has almost vanished now.
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