Red Eye's annual festival of new, experimental works kicks off this year with excerpts from four plays and a dance suite. Sheila Regan's "The Keys Experiment" focuses on three dozen conscientious objectors during World War II who starved themselves as part of an experiment at the University of Minnesota. Laura Holway's "I Like You" is about four strangers on a six-month date who get to know each other through dance, video and song. Jessica Haung's "A Butterfly Net" is about a girl's escape to fantasy as a way to deal with grief. Kevin Anthony Kautzman's "Down: A Fable" revolves around secrets and memories. And Taja Will's "Awaken Absurdity" is a dance piece that she locates in the nether world of dreams.

Actors Aimee Bryant and Cochise Anderson headline this Interact Theater original production that sends up the quackery, snake oils and magic cures of traveling medicine shows. Those well-known theater performers will be joined by artists with disabilities in a show written by Dawn Brodey with music by Aaron Gabriel and lyrics by Tod Petersen. Dario Tangelson directs.