(Whitewater Arts Alliance submission) The Whitewater Arts Alliance (WAA) is hosting a virtual filmed theatre production of “Gruesome Playground Injuries” written by Rajiv Joseph, digitally available on April 24th-April 25th. “Gruesome Playground Injuries” tickets are offered “pay as you are able.” The play is a two-person show featuring actors Johnathon Krautkramer and Alyssa Hannam, who are from Appleton and the Fort Atkinson area.

Matt Denney, WAA Board Member and director of the play is also a Residential Learning Advisor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Following is a synopsis of the play: It’s not your typical love story: Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse’s office in their elementary school; she’s got a painful stomach ache, and he’s all banged up from a running dive off the roof of the school. Over the next thirty years, these scar-crossed lovers meet again and again, brought together by injury, heartbreak, and their own self-destructive tendencies. With great compassion and humor, playwright Rajiv Joseph (Broadway’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) crafts a compelling and unconventional love story about the intimacy between two people when they allow their defenses to drop and their wounds to show.

Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can at http://bit.ly/WAAGPI0421

The WAA has been ramping up their Virtual Theatre Productions and Readings in 2021, and they recently did a virtual reading which raised money for the Whitewater Dream Fund for undocumented students.

The mission of the Whitewater Arts Alliance is to promote the visual and performing arts through an alliance of artists, individuals, educational resources, and organizations to promote creativity and diversity that will serve to educate and enrich the lives of the residents of the Whitewater community and surrounding areas.