Friday night -- about 20 people gather in the Bemidji State University theater. It's been used for storage since the acting program was gutted six years ago for budget reasons. Now the local creatives have found their way back in for the school's first 24-hour Play Festival. Playwrights begin by picking two props. They then write through the night crafting short plays around them. Everyone else gets to go home and sleep, and produce the script in the morning.
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