College’s upcoming production of Watermelon Hill hits stage Feb. 23 - 26

January 27, 2017

Anoka-Ramsey Community College is getting ready to showcase their students’ hard work in the winter production of Watermelon Hill by Lily Coyle. The play will hit the Cambridge Theatre’s stage Feb. 23, 24, and 25 at 7:30 pm, as well as a matinee showing on Feb. 26 at 2 pm.

“I have wanted to direct this play for a long time,” said Lisa Weaver, the play’s director and Anoka-Ramsey Theatre instructor, “It has been percolating in the back of my mind since I first read it several years ago. I really like the local historical significance—it takes place in St Paul! It is an important story that I am honored to share and that I feel illuminates the lives of young women going through an extremely difficult time.”

Students of the college receive two free tickets, with tickets available to the general public for $8.

Watermelon Hill, written by Lily Coyle, is set in 1965. The play asks that you imagine yourself as a teenage girl—pregnant and unwed. After a painful confession to your mother, you are sent away to the Catholic Infant Home on Cathedral Hill to deliver your baby and give it up for adoption. You are given a new name and strict instructions: "Do not reveal your real name. Do not discuss this episode in your life with anyone. Have your baby, go back to school, and make a fresh start – as if nothing ever happened. Once you leave this place, you must never look back." But that's impossible. Decades later, in this play, three courageous women relive their shared experiences at the home, personal moments of love and loss, and reunions with the children they never forgot.

Watermelon Hill
Feb. 23, 24, and 25, 2016
7:30 pm

Feb 26, 2017
2 pm
Cambridge Campus Peterson Community Room (G202)

Tickets: $8

For more information about the production or the Theatre Department at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, visit: AnokaRamsey.edu/academics/departments-faculty/theatre/