Tag: Ten Thousand Things

Review | Scapin: a servant of no masters

A director friend of mine once said, “A little stupid is funny; a lot of stupid is just stupid.” The Ten Thousand Things staging of Scapin is just the right amount of stupid and it is very funny. (Ten Thousand Things…

The Changelings at Ten Thousand Things Theater, performing at Bedlam Lowertown and at Open Book

By now you must know the Ten Thousand Things drill: no stage lights, no recorded sound effects, minimal set pieces, intricate music woven into the action (in this case created by the very busy, very talented Annie Enneking, guitarist and…

Dear World by Ten Thousand Things

Dear World (at Ten Thousand Things through Feb 7; various venues; please visit the TTT website for specific info) is decidedly un-glitzy. This despite a book (based on Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman Of Chaillot) by big-stage sentimentalists Jerome Lawrence and Robert…

Doubt, A Parable at Ten Thousand Things Theater

Does anyone doubt Father Flynn’s innocence? John Patrick Shanley‘s masterful Doubt, A Parable (Ten Thousand Things Theater, through March 6) is often portrayed as a mystery.  Did Flynn, as Sister Aloysius so stridently claims, really commit “an indiscretion” with the…

Life’s A Dream by Ten Thousand Things Theater

At first it’s off-putting, the lack of any stage lighting at a Ten Thousand Things play.  Blinking fluorescents, the glare of the late morning sun, the institutional playing space (conference rooms, cafeterias).  But soon you find yourself leaning forward, eager…

My Fair Lady at Minnesota Opera Center

Ten Thousand Things’ production of My Fair Lady (Ten Thousand Things, various venues, though note that the “public performances” are at the MN Opera Center, 620 N. 1st St., Minneapolis, May 7-30, tenthousandthings.org) owes more to George Bernard Shaw (creator…