The Center is teaming up with Angels Theatre Company for a discussion related to their upcoming performance of “Eminent Domain.” Join Playwright Laura Leininger-Campbell, Director Timothy Scholl, and UNL Law Professors Jessica Shoemaker and Anthony Schutz for a conversation about family farms, corporate interests, and bringing this Nebraska story to life. Part of the discussion will include short readings from the play.

About the play: Any Nebraska farmer or rancher worth their salt will tell you their connection to the land is equally as strong as their bonds to family, community, and their good name. When Rob McLeod is confronted with a threat underneath his land, he and his entire family discover how fragile and endangered their bonds will become.

An award-winning play, written by Nebraska playwright Laura Leininger-Campbell, Eminent Domain digs beneath the day-to-day struggles facing our family farms. Dig deeper, and the greatest threat to America’s Heartland is revealed: how can this way of life survive without its next generation?

See the play: March 20-22, 27-29, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. and March 23 and 30, 2025 at 2 p.m. in the
Johnny Carson Theatre at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. https://www.liedcenter.org/event/angel-theatre-companys-eminent-domain