The Minutes

Everything is on the record. Until it isn’t.

Written by Tracy Letts
Directed by Liz Dunn

October 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, and 17
A Church, 419 D Street, Salida

This razor-sharp comedy invites you behind the closed doors of a routine city council meeting that is anything but ordinary. When a new council member returns to the chambers to find a colleague missing and the official record of the last meeting suspiciously absent, finding out the truth is met with the ultimate political weapons: red tape, eccentric excuses, and bureaucratic nonsense.

From petty squabbles over local festivals to the high-stakes drama of parking permits, it’s a hilarious and biting look at the people who run our world and the secrets they try to keep "off the record."

If you think you knew what a city council meeting is like, you’ve never been to a Big Cherry council meeting. Pull up a chair and join the session. It’s just another night of small-town politics… or is it?

Cast: Louie Cohn, Justin Critelli, JJ Fraser, Eden Giorno, Devon Jencks, Leslie Matthews, Jean Moloney, Peter Mossman, Bill Rogers, Greg West, and Tom Westrup