The special exhibit Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race is now open at the Science Museum of Minnesota. I’m performing in a short, live theatre piece called The Value of Life, which accompanies the exhibit.

Here’s what the exhibit is about (yanked without permission from the Science Museum’s website):

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation’s “health.” Driven by a racist ideology legitimized by German scientists, the Nazis attempted to eliminate all of Europe’s Jews, ultimately killing six million in the Holocaust.

Developed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race is a thought-provoking exhibition of objects, photographs, documents, and historic film footage from European and American collections.

Deadly Medicine contains historical photographs, artifacts and survivor testimony from the Holocaust, including explicit images of medical experimentation on children.

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race is organized and circulated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, presented locally in partnership with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

I’ll be performing in The Value of Life on Saturday afternoons and, after The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window closes on March 16th, Sunday afternoons as well. Weekend showtimes are 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 PM. For tickets to the museum and the exhibit, click here. For all the information about the exhibit, programming, and the museum itself, visit http://www.smm.org.

The Value of Life was adapted from a longer piece from the Holocaust Museum and was directed by Randy Reyes (Theatre Mu). It’s a two-person show (one man, one woman), and there are two casts. The female actors are Jen Scott and Stephanie Long, and the other guy in my role is Bob Malos. I love everybody involved, and I’ve had a great time working on this. I highly recommend checking out the show, the exhibit, and the other programming related to Deadly Medicine.

Speaking of other Deadly Medicine programs, my friend and King Lear castmate Dylan Fresco is doing a workshop with Penumbra Theatre called Confronting a Killing Culture. Unfortunately, it’s right up against my Saturday shows, so I won’t be able to go. But you should.