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Emerald and the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen
May 21 - June 13, 2010
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
Emerald and the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen is a stylized, modern maritime odyssey which tells the story of a corporate coffee shop barista marked at birth with green hair. On the mythic Day of Dead Fishermen- the day every 25 years when all the drowned fishermen walk again on a legendary island-Emerald sets out to meet her father who died at sea the day she was born. With a blend of whimsy and poetry, Emerald and the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen combines old traditions of mythology with a humorous view of the modern life of small-town fishermen.
Strike-Slip
March 12 - March 28, 2010
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
In the sprawling mosaic of Los Angeles there are as many fissures, connections, and cracks above ground as there are below. For three diverse families, a tragic shooting exposes these once-dormant fault-lines and forces them to confront the way they perceive themselves, their community and their dreams. In a city where anything is possible but nothing is durable, how will uncertainty shape the way they live their lives?
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
October 25 - November 1, 2009
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
A man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park. There enters a second man. He is a young, unkempt and undisciplined vagrant where the first is neat, ordered, well-to-do and conventional. With provocative humor and unrelenting suspense, the young savage slowly, but relentlessly, brings his victim down to his own atavistic level as he relates a story about his visit to the zoo.
Slow Jobs: Servicing America for $12 an Hour
October 24 - October 24, 2009
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
Overworked and underwhelmed? Punch the clock with Fringe favorites Laura Bidgood and Curt Lund as they relive first jobs, creepy coworkers, minimum wage, office romances, and doing whatever it takes to pay the bills. What did you want to be when you grew up? And what the hell happened instead?
The Rise of General Arthur
October 22 - October 25, 2009
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
The fifth century meets the twenty-first as Lance-Corporal Pellinore is shipped off to Baghdad. It's Arthur's story...as you've never heard it before.
Strawberry Fields Temporarily
October 22 - October 25, 2009
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
The maker of "Mittens for Fat Kids" performs tales about the humiliations of stand-up comedy, the consequences of pornography theft, and the celebration of life as a long and winding driveway.
An Intimate Evening With Fotis Part III
October 15 - October 18, 2009
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
In the third installment of this somewhat popular show, Mike sits in a chair and tells stories. At first crowds say, "He'll stand." By the end they're like, "Wow, he never stood up."
Crescendo
October 15 - October 18, 2009
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
Through the eyes of a misfit joker, Allegra Lingo discovers that small beginnings can build into a powerful end. Inspired by the music of Aaron Copland, it's like Fantasia, except with words instead of dancing brooms and scary demons
The Trial of Mother Teresa
May 29 - June 21, 2009
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
A cage-match for moralists, a Lincoln-Douglas debate for the faithful, a three-ring circus for doubters-all are contained within The Trial of Mother Teresa, directed by Nimbus co-Artistic Director Liz Neerland.
Henry IV
March 6 - March 29, 2009
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
Sanity and madness vie for control in Pirandello's Henry IV, as reimagined by Tom Stoppard.
Death and the Maiden
November 7 - November 30, 2008
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
In a nameless country a woman is tortured and raped by a band of unknown captors. The only sounds that accompany her screams are the voice of the mysterious doctor who directs her attackers and an endless recording of Schubert's Death and the Maiden. Years later, when Paulina and her husband Gerardo welcome a stranger into their home, she immediately recognizes the man's voice as that of the doctor.
The Irresistible Rise of Big Daddy Ubu
September 5 - September 28, 2008
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
Music, mischief, and murder collide in The Irresistible Rise of Big Daddy Ubu, written and directed by nimbus co-Artistic Director Josh Cragun.
TV Men
May 9 - May 25, 2008
Intermedia Arts
Catherine the Great. Salome. Langston Hughes. Icarus. Tupac Amaru II. Vita Sackville-West. William Booth. They're all ready for their close-ups. Or are they?
The Mail Order Bride
November 2 - November 18, 2007
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
nimbus is proud to present the regional premiere of Charles Mee's The Mail Order Bride, directed by co-Artistic director, Josh Cragun. True to Mee's "collage theater"stylings, this farce is a 2 ½ ring circus of Tai Chi exercises, nunchuck demonstrations, urban dance numbers and even a singing castrato. Along the way, both sincere and satiric observations are made about marriage, race, love and Gnarls Barkley.
Orestes
September 7 - September 23, 2007
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
In nimbus' Agamemnon, the king returned from war only to find his death at the hands of his scheming wife. Now, the son will return to seek his vengeance. In this fusion of the 2nd half of Aeschylus' The Libation Bearers and the entirety of The Eumenides, the prodigal Orestes returns to avenge the killing of his father, Agamemnon, and then flees, only to be pursued by the Furies. With help from Apollo, he seeks out Athena and is thrown to the mercy of her court and a jury of his peers.
Agamemnon
June 8 - June 24, 2007
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
Aeschylus once wrote that "in war, truth is the first casualty." In his post-Trojan War drama Agamemnon, the same could be said of love. Combined with the first half of The Libation Bearers, nimbus' Agamemnon chronicles the triumphant return home of King Agamemnon after the fall of Troy and how, through deceit, subterfuge and manipulation, murder and revenge ensue.
American Noise
March 16 - April 1, 2007
Intermedia Arts
American Noise: The Savage Re-Birth of the American Dream mashes up live action theatre with animated scenes from six of the Twin Cities' premier animators. The play's characters confront an America united only by its divisions and immersed in a deafening cultural noise that distracts its citizens with the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of the perfect pair of jeans.
The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?
November 3 - November 19, 2006
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
On the eve of his 50th birthday, architect Martin Gray has reached a new pinnacle in his life. He's won the Pritzker Prize. He's landed a mega-bucks development contract. He's found new love. So what's wrong with this picture? Well, the problem with reaching the top is that there's usually only one direction to go.
You Burn Me
September 8 - September 24, 2006
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
William Shakespeare's classic tragicomedy The Winter's Tale is reborn as a gripping modern fable about the redeeming power of love and forgiveness in the nimbus original production You Burn Me. Created through an innovative workshop process, the play draws from the poetry of Sappho, the drama of Charles Mee, Hmong folk tales, Vaudeville, and many other sources to create a wholly unique performance filled with music, laughter, sorrow and joy.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
June 2 - June 18, 2006
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
When an anarchist accused of bombing a bank "accidentally" falls out a fourth floor window, the police are quick to cover their tracks. But the arrival of a maniac in disguise and a shrewd reporter soon have the authorities scrambling to retract their amendments and amend their retractions.
Madmen and Specialists
February 24 - March 12, 2006
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
A raging civil war threatens to unravel the moral fabric of society. In the midst of it all, a woman tries to hold onto her faith in humanity as those around her spiral into the depths of lunacy. This is the twisted world of Madmen and Specialists, presented by nimbus and written by Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.
Propaganda for the Converted
October 28 - November 20, 2005
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
The actions of men are a melange of good and evil, of duty and desire, need, drive, and ruthless determination. Knowing this, and seeing that workers are on the verge of revolution, three agitators enter a foreign country to sow the seeds of dissent. Caught in the center of the rebellion is a young woman torn between faithfulness to her cause and compassion for her people.
Minnehaha Avenue
September 9 - September 25, 2005
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
Take a trip down Minnehaha Avenue, a street that, in it's own diagonal way, has woven itself into the fabric of our lives. An original work crafted from memoirs, 8mm family film footage, diary entries and neighborhood lore, Minnehaha Avenue spins a yarn that spans 4 generations of growing up and growing old in Southern Minneapolis.
The Firebugs
February 18 - March 6, 2005
4th Street Theater
This dark comedy explores self-deception and moral flaccidity in the face of impending disaster. In a town wracked by a string of arson attacks, the bourgeois socialites Christian and Babette Betterman allow two shady vagabonds to move into their attic. As it becomes increasingly obvious their guests are really firebugs, the spineless protagonists exhibit a political cluelessness and comic human despair that is strikingly relevant to our times.
Beautiful Things
November 5 - November 21, 2004
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
Inspired by the work of Charles Mee, Jr., this new workshopped production focuses on five Americans who find themselves trapped in comfort and surrounded by luxury when violence breaks out at the seaside resort they are visiting. As the insurrection moves closer, they discover that good taste can have deadly consequences.
Unemployable
August 8 - August 15, 2004
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
Maybe you could fly a jet! Maybe you could be a vet. Maybe you could be write a book! Maybe you should be a crook! And maybe you don't want to do anything but sit on the couch and watch Jerry Springer. Unemployable, a new work by local playwright Dustin Hansen and directed by nimbus alumnus Cockroach, follows the lives of two twenty-something art-slackers as they struggle to discover what they want to do, who they want to be, how they want to work-and find that they don't know half as much about themselves or each other as they thought they did.
Endgame
April 23 - May 9, 2004
Xelias Aerial Studios
Somewhere between life and death, just short of the night but far past dawn, four spectral characters wait in vain for the end. Not quite comedy, not quite tragedy, nimbus opens its 2004 season with the Samuel Beckett's modern classic Endgame.
Cafe Delphi
August 1 - August 10, 2003
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
What is it that humanity hungers for? Truth? Power? Knowledge? Or maybe just a nice turkey club on rye? No matter what it takes to fill the hole in your life (or ease the rumble in your belly), you can find it at Café Delphi.
The Irresistable Rise of Big Daddy Ubu
April 10 - April 27, 2003
Rogue Buddha Art Gallery
Chicago's in trouble as the notorious gangster Big Daddy Ubu and his gang of palcontents plot the takeover of the powerfull Artichoke Alliance. With Ma Ubu at his side, watch as he uses violence and bad grammar to achieve his evil ways. As the play rolls on, debrainings and hillarity ensue.
A Five Step Guide to Happiness
August 4 - August 11, 2002
Brave New Workshop
Tired? Bored? Listless? Hey, it happens to the best of us. nimbus presented the world premiere of A Five Step Guide to Happiness, a new play by Minneapolis author Cockroach, at the 2002 Minnesota fringe festival. This quirky comedy took a look at how a person captures that ellusive metaphor - happiness.
Ashes to Ashes
November 29 - December 9, 2001
Cedar Riverside People's Center
A compelling look at how we perceive violence and atrocity in our own lives, Harold Pinter's 1996 work Ashes to Ashes has never been more relevant than it is today. This daring drama examines how our perceptions and understanding of the violence in the world effect our own lives.