In Aditi Brennan Kapil‘s Orange (Mixed Blood, through Dec 4) Leela (the wonderful Annelyse Ahmad) is having an “adventure.” Her well-meaning albeit scattered and goofily irresponsible cousin (played by the even wonderfuller Lipica Shah) has taken her off into the…
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Barbecue at Mixed Blood Theatre
Robert O’Hara‘s clutch-popping Barbecue (Mixed Blood Theater, through October 16) is gimmicky. Nothing in the play is what it seems to be, character motivations change with breathtaking quickness, abrupt discoveries are made about characters really are and it would be…
The Christians by Walking Shadow Theatre Co., performing at Mixed Blood Theatre
The evangelical subculture and the heightened theatrics of megachurch gatherings are ripe for parody; so much so that audiences have come to expect satire or comedy whenever a story is set therein. So it’s unexpected—and refreshing—when a text treats those…
DJ Latinidad’s Latino Dance Party at Mixed Blood Theatre
There are time-honored ways of celebrating the return of spring in Minnesota: the St Patrick’s Day parade; the Twins opener; and firing up the BBQ. This year add another to the list: DJ Latinidad’s Latino Dance Party at Mixed Blood…
An Octoroon at Mixed Blood Theatre
Dion Boucicault was a 19th century melodramatist, the fellow who gave us such ne’er-produced masterworks as The School For Scheming and The Vampire. His overwrought potboiler The Octoroon mines the same thin vein of theatrical ore, a play in which…
Pussy Valley at Mixed Blood Theatre
Katori Hall, to her credit, does not, in Pussy Valley (Mixed Blood Theatre, though May 10) have an agenda. No authorial condescension is in evidence. As a straight forward portrait of the denizens of the Pink Pony, a gritty titty…
Hir at Mixed Blood Theatre
“Let’s put the fun in dysfunctional!” exclaims playwright Taylor Mac and – for a while, anyhow – he succeeds. The Mixed Blood stage for Hir (at MB through Mar 22) swirls with a wild scatter of dirty laundry (“I don’t…
The Whale by Walking Shadow Theatre Co., performing at Mixed Blood
The Whale, by Samuel D. Hunter (Walking Shadow Theatre Co., performing at Mixed Blood Theatre, through Dec 20), is a grim little play. In it, we watch Charlie, the eponymous whale, committing suicide by gluttony. In the years since his…
Colossal at Mixed Blood Theatre
What a gutsy title: Colossal (Mixed Blood, through Nov 9). Think what it implies: size, power, endurance, maleness, calculated violence, theatricality. A heady celebration of the game of football – and it is; football is truly one of the greatest…
Passing Strange at Mixed Blood Theatre
Passing Strange (at Mixed Blood Theatre, through May 11) is an example of that ancient, hoary, and utterly old-fashioned theatrical entity: the rock musical. Everyone is in the band. The cast plays various instruments – not brilliantly, but you can’t…