Performance - Men on Boats

Performance - Men on Boats
Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025 at 7:30pm
Des Moines Community Playhouse
831 42nd Street
515-277-6261

A true(ish) adventure on the American frontier.

The year: 1869. The crew: a maniacally talkative youth, an old Civil War vet who doesn't like people, an overexcited Brit, and a hunter who wears only beaver skins, to name just a few. Led by John Wesley Powell, a one-armed crazy-faced explorer with an excitable soul, this motley bunch faces treacherous Colorado River rapids and the unexplored American frontier. Governed by ambition, hunger, and downright insanity, they must decide when to press on and when to give in to the dangers of exploration.

Individual tickets on sale to the public this winter.