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| JUST ANNOUNCED: Our 2008-09 Season. Click here for more info and to buy tickets. |
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Sep 19 - Oct 7, 2007 |
Mixed Blood brings back Jevetta Steele’s critically acclaimed blockbuster, Two Queens One Castle, musical for a three-week run. A parable set to music, Steele’s story uses gospel, R&B, jazz and pop to explore the tumult of a catapulting career, motherhood, extended family, church and a marriage to a gay man. It is a story of deception, love, revelation, and hope. Our original 2002 production sold out its run, and it has since set box office records in Atlanta and DC. Featuring a cast led by Jevetta Steele, Two Queens One Castle will be presented at the intimate 450-seat Music Box Theatre, home of the long-running Triple Espresso. Season ticket holders receive priority seating.
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By Sarah Ruhl |
From MacArthur “genius grant” recipient Sarah Ruhl, a poetic playwright with the gift of gag, comes The Clean House, a play with kaleidoscopic sensibilities that takes the simple tasks of housecleaning and joke-telling and gives them transcendental levels of meaning. This fast-moving, compassionate comedy revolves around Matilde, a maid (who hates cleaning) on a mission to find the perfect joke (her parents were the funniest people in Brazil). Her presence leads to the amazing transformations of a household, of disconnected women, and of classes while arguing that the best things in life — a sublime joke, a fulfilling purpose, a soul mate, even a satisfactory death — are infinitely worth waiting for. A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist! |
By Deborah Brevoort Jan 17 – Feb 10, 2008 |
The Poetry of Pizza,“a comedy in four slices”, is a contemporary comedy of errors in which the unlikely romance of an American scholar and a Kurdish refugee sets in motion a rash of culinary courtships. In an entertainment industry woefully inept at accurate and humane portrayals of Arabs, Muslims and Iraqis, The Poetry of Pizza is a romantic feel-good (and taste-good) comedy that spanscultural gulfs while celebrating heartfelt human connection. Embodying Mixed Blood’s mantra of radical optimism, this is a sit-back-and-smile farce replete with Danish agoraphobics, Middle Eastern pizza chefs, and busy-body voyeurs, all in love with the idea of finding true love. |
Feb 28 – Mar 22, 2008 |
Mixed Blood resident artist Aditi Kapil authors Love Person, a language-laden love mystery. An intellectually intriguing drama about language as a portal and barrier to human connection in which love transcends sexual orientation, physical attraction, and social structure, and rests instead on the ways in which people communicate. Two couples, three cultures, and four languages blossom, break, sustain, repair, and flourish in this polyglot play. Performed in American Sign Language (ASL), Sanskrit, spoken English, and projected e-mail, this production will be accessible to Deaf and Hearing audiences alike. |
 by Jacobo Langsner Directed and translated by Jerry Ruiz Apr 19 - 26, 2008 At the new Steppingstone Theatre in St. Paul |
Esperando La Carroza (Waiting for the Hearse) by Uruguayan playwright Jacobo Langsner is a class system family satire that finds everything about the human condition laughable. A needy octogenarian with three adoring married sons becomes increasingly burdensome to her three daughters-in-law – one poor, one middle-class, and one affluent. The fast-paced crackling comic dialogue traps all of its conniving characters in one form of personal scandal or other to expose their greed, hypocrisy, mendacity, and mere sloth. Our tenth bilingual production, English supertitles will again translate the Spanish dialogue for all to understand. |
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