Ifrah Mansour's HOW TO HAVE FUN IN A CIVIL WAR to Play Encore Performances at CTC

Back by popular demand, Minnesota-based Somali playwright and performer Ifrah Mansour revisits her childhood memories during the 1991 Somali civil war to confront violent history with humor, and provide a voice for the stories of children.

How to Have Fun in a Civil War, is a one-act multimedia play, which explores war from an idyllic viewpoint of a seven-year-old Somali girl. The play layers multiple narratives taken from community interviews to tell a captivating story about resilience while pushing audience to engage in a healing process that is still raw for survivors of the war.

Performances run Jan. 6 and 7 at 7pm and Jan. 8 at 3pm. Tickets can be purchased through Brown Paper Tickets website. Performances take place at the Children's Theatre Company Cohen Stage (Stage Door entrance), 2400 Third Ave S, Minneapolis.

Ifrah Mansour is a Minnesota-based Somali multimedia artist, performer, and teacher. She uses art to bridge cultures and generations. Media coverage includes "Minneapolis Artist Sews New Somali History that Crosses Generations" by the Star Tribune, "Ifrah Mansour Explores War from a Child's Perspective" by City Pages, "Performance and Prevention" by Minnesota Daily and "Ten Somali artists & entertainers to watch in 2015" by Okayafrica. Recent art and performance works include Somalia's Balloon, Lablaab the Spill, Drones and Fargans, Isug, Corn for Ayayo, and A stray film.

Children's Theatre Company (CTC) is the nation's largest and most acclaimed theatre for multigenerational audiences. It creates theatre experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire for more than 250,000 people annually. CTC is the only theatre focused on young audiences to win the coveted Tony Award® for Outstanding Regional Theatre and has received three Tony® nominations for its production of A Year with Frog and Toad. CTC is committed to producing world class productions at the highest level and to developing new works, more than 200 to date, dramatically changing the canon of work for young audiences.

CTC's engagement and learning programs annually serve more than 85,000 students ages 2-18 through Theatre Arts Training, student matinees, Neighborhood Bridges, and early childhood arts education programs that bring students to the theatre and bring teaching artists into the classroom. The ACT One program is CTC's cohesive platform for access, diversity, and inclusion in our audiences, programs, staff, and board that strives to ensure the theatre is a home for all people, all families, reflective of our community. www.childrenstheatre.org

Photo Credit: David Joles

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