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Come see STATIC, Augsburg’s Winter 2026 Student Production! Tickets are pay-what-you-can, with a minimum donation of $1. There will also be merchandise and snacks for sale in the lobby, with all profits going to support Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid!
STATIC
by Lucía Salazar-Davidson and Kyle Hayes
directed by Lucía Salazar-Davidson
February 5–7 | 7 p.m.
February 8 | 3 p.m.
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater, Foss Center
A day at the state fair changes everything.
But are we certain we know what we know?
Lewis Palmer, radio-wave surfer and UFO enthusiast, works hard on his family’s sunflower farm, and has no plans to ever leave it. Joan Palmer, his younger sibling, wants to escape their rural South Dakota town at any cost, desperate to come out as queer and live free of the expectations of a suffocatingly close-knit community. On the one-year anniversary of their parents’ mysterious and untimely death, tensions rise to a snapping point as they deal with nosey neighbors, preparations for the state fair, and radio interference.
STATIC, a tragicomedy written by students Lucía Salazar-Davidson and Kyle Hayes, explores what we do in irredeemably harmful situations. Can we stay? Should we escape? What happens to the ones we leave behind? Through various misadventures, devastating miscommunications, a dash of music, and a sprinkle of sci-fi flair, this play aims to explore these questions.