Even if the Twins manage to get to the World Series this year, that’s not going to happen for seven months. But baseball fans don’t have to wait — the World Series is coming to St. Paul’s CHS Field, starting Tuesday.

Specifically, it’s Game 7 of a series between the San Diego Padres and the Texas Rangers. It’s also a game at which a star pitcher is about to make an explosive announcement in the world premiere thriller, “Safe at Home,” which playwrights Gabriel Greene and Alex Levy designed to be done at a ballpark. It will be performed at CHS March 7-12.

“It’s a baseball play, so there have to be nine scenes, of course. There’s a little whodunit tone to the play, but it’s also using baseball as a metaphor to talk about things like immigration and race,” says Jack Reuler, artistic director of Mixed Blood Theatre and director of “Safe at Home.” “To be able to talk about racial politics with this global village of a cast? And I’m a huge baseball fan? Being able to do this site-specific work in a baseball stadium is almost a culmination of all the things I like to do most.” Related Articles Nashville Coop food truck sets up bricks-and-mortar shop in St. Paul

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The 18-member cast — including Christopher Rivas as the pitcher, as well as Ansa Akyea, Harry Waters Jr. and former TV anchor Don Shelby — will play a variety of folks who are at the big game, including a sports writer, team owners, an African-American umpire and politicians who want to use the game as a platform for ideas that are about to take center stage at a presidential debate.

It’s not just the setting of “Safe at Home” that is unorthodox. It’s also the way it plays out. Audiences will buy tickets for specific times, staggered at 10-minute intervals. In groups of 25 or so, tour guides will lead them from place to place at CHS — the dugout, the locker room, the press box, a luxury suite — to watch nine scenes in nine different places (as a result, the cast will perform each scene a dozen times a night).

Everyone will be getting the same show — the nine, seven-minute scenes are precisely timed, and they’re joined by three-minute interludes, climaxing with the pitcher’s speech — but not everyone will be getting “Safe at Home” at the same time.

With all of those moving parts, plus the need to figure out how to use the scoreboard as a sort of playbill and to relocate Mixed Blood’s box office to CHS, it sounds like a lot to organize. And it has been.

“The logistics have been great. The Saints people have been so tremendous and cooperative. Every time we think we have an insoluble problem, that turns out not to be the case,” says Reuler, noting that the only thing they couldn’t ante up was an appearance by Saints part-owner actor Bill Murray.

“We’re a jump-first, ask-questions-later kind of organization,” says Tom Whaley, executive vice president of St. Paul Saints, who first learned of “Safe at Home” about a year ago and who was immediately excited by the chance to do something that has never been done. “We like to try things that haven’t been tried. It was impossible for us not to say ‘yes.'”

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“Jack described how they were going to use the ballpark — it’s going to be a great opportunity for people to see parts of the park they wouldn’t usually see — and how it was a chance to talk about inclusion and diversity and some pretty weighty subjects. And I thought, ‘Yeah. That’s good enough for us,'” Whaley says.

No knowledge of baseball is required to appreciate “Safe at Home” and, in keeping with Mixed Blood’s accessibility policies, one performance will have an interpreter available for non-English speakers. In keeping with the idea of being at a baseball game, Saints concession stands will be open.

“When we finish Scene 9, which is what audiences have been waiting to see, they will go through the dugout, into the stands and back out of the stadium,” Reuler sats. “There will be a few of us there to field any questions and to prime their curiosity as they leave.”

Or to sell them some peanuts and Cracker Jack. That may seem like an unusual treat to enjoy at a play but, as Reuler notes, it’s an unusual play.

“I’d say audiences will be on the edge of their seats,” Reuler says. “But they’ll actually be walking the whole time.”

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