Mixed Blood Theatre's Dr. King's Dream Comes to Pine City

Dr. King's Dream, Mixed Blood Theatre's acclaimed celebration of the life and career of Dr. Martin Luther King, will be performed in Pine City at Pine Technical & Community College auditorium on Monday, February 22. Sponsored by Pine Technical & Community College’s Diversity Team, the performance begins at 5:30 and is free and open to the public.

 

Dr. King's Dream features Warren C. Bowles in a stirring solo performance that movingly chronicles King's career from its beginning during the Montgomery bus strike to his death in Memphis. It captures all of the dignity, courage, and humanity of a unique American leader.

 

Both the external events in King's career (the marches in Selma and Birmingham, winning the Nobel Peace Prize) and his thoughts on topics ranging from Malcolm X to the police to President Kennedy are included, as his soaring "I Have a Dream" speech. Yet for all of the historical significance, what emerges is the spirit of a man dedicated to equality through non-violence, to an ideal, and to a dream.

 

Dr. King's Dream is produced by the Mixed Blood Theatre Company from its home in a century-old Minneapolis fire station. Founded in 1976 and dedicated to the spirit of Dr. King's dream, Mixed Blood is a multi-racial professional company promoting cultural pluralism, individual equality, and artistic excellence.

 

The show is one of four programs toured nationally by Mixed Blood. The others include Minnecanos, a look at Chicano cultural history in Minnesota; Daughters of Africa, a music-driven history of African American women; and Theory of Mind, about a college-bound young man on the autism spectrum.

 

 Warren C. Bowles, the talented actor featured in Dr. King's Dream, has toured for Mixed Blood since 1981. Among the most memorable of his scores of credits at Mixed Blood are Lucien in The Boys Next Door, the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, and the professor in Oleanna. He directed Daughters of Africa and both wrote and directed African America and Black Eagle, a biography of Challenger shuttle astronaut Ron McNair.