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One of the great aspirations of any community theater is to take a show to 

, the bi-annual national American Association of Community Theatre Festival.

in Cloquet, Minnesota, that dream just became a reality.

County Seat's show "Wiley and the Hairy Man," just won top honors at the Region 5 festival, which pits companies from Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota against one another.  Company member Kirk Davis won the award for Best Actor, and the group as a whole took home the award for Best Ensemble Performance.

Now the company will head to Rochester, NY in late June for the final round.

, "Wiley and the Hairy Man" uses lyric poetry and mime to tell a story drawn from an Alabama folk tale:

According to Technical Director Frank Milder, since 1973 only three other Minnesota community theaters  have advanced to the National festival: Chameleon Theatre Circle of Apple Valley in 1999, Theatre in the Round Players of Minneapolis in 1997 and 1973 and Citystock Theatre Company of North Minneapolis in 1989.

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