Worldwide Church of the Handicapped

So a burned-out social worker walks into a bar … and sets about drowning his sorrows. Just as he gets to talking smack about the cadre of mentally and physically disabled clients he serves, they begin showing up at the bar in droves. Sure, Interact’s productions often deal with disabled people and their challenges, but they forgo the preachy, treacly after-school-special treatment in favor of a humorous approach. For example, Worldwide Church delves into the type of intracommunity discrimination that has the wheelchair-bound asserting their superiority over the blind; the brain-injured refusing to put themselves in the same category as folks with Down syndrome; and so on. Sooner or later, they all must come to terms with their prejudices—including the seemingly fearless social worker, who faces down his own personal nemeses: dwarfs. 212 3rd Ave. N., Minneapolis; 612-339-5145; www.interactcenter.com