Portrait of Myself as My Father

Staging portrait of myself as my father at the Uppercut Boxing Gym is the first indication that the performance will be unconventional. The gym lives in a renovated warehouse in the Northeast area of Minneapolis and carries the faint smells of oil, sawdust and sweat. The boxing ring was blocked from view on entry, the audience…

Hamlet

By ELLEN FERRY Wayward Theatre is “dedicated to producing challenging work in equally challenging spaces.” The team certainly had their hands full for their recent production of William Shakespeare‘s Hamlet, performed at the James J. Hill House. I recently had the opportunity to attend the Orchard Theatre Collective’s production of A Doll’s House, which was also performed…

Indecent

By Lydia Mwambi A stage within a stage, a play within a play, and actors playing actors. What could be more exciting!? Based on the obscenity trial of Shalom Asch’s The God of Vengeance from 1923, Paula Vogel ‘s Indecent is a truly inspiring play in which a troupe of just seven members and three…