Annie Enneking has been a Twin Cities actor, dancer and Patti Smith-style singer-songwriter for nearly three decades, cutting her teeth in "Alice in Wonderland" and "Pippi Longstocking" at the Children's Theatre, where her memorable roles include a bird in "Anon." She also writes for the stage, and won a 2010 McKnight artist fellowship from the Playwrights' Center.
Enneking combines her many skills in "The Joans," a mixture of rock concert and drama that riffs on Joan of Arc that she wrote. The show "evokes the pleasures of rock-and-roll aggression, the passion of religious hysteria, and the impossible melancholy of total sexual satisfaction," she said in a release.
Musicians Chadly Koppenhaver and Pablo Jones accompany Enneking and play the three versions of Joan of Arc presented in the piece: the young virgin; the experienced hand who has had thousands of lovers; and the rock star haunted by a dark past.
She has enlisted Philadelphia-based director Whit McLaughlin as collaborator. Head of New Paradise Laboratories, he directed "Prom" at the Children's Theatre and . He stages "The Joans," which will be performed Thu.-Sat., Feb.17-26, Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St., Mpls. $12. 612-825-8949 or www.bryantlakebowl.com.
