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Latest Release:
We have the ocean all the other days, let the dead have this one.
nimbus is proud to present the Twin Cities premiere of Emerald and the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen, directed by nimbus co-Artistic Director Liz Neerland.
Emerald's father, a fisherman, was lost at sea the night she was born. Now, on the eve of her 25th birthday, Emerald learns of the Day of the Dead Fishermen - a time when the dead awake from their slumber for one day only. Emerald is determined to travel to the mysterious island where the dead walk, even though to do so means certain death. Joined by barista-in-crime Jason and an unlikely boat captain, they face many foes - on land and at sea - in their quest to reunite Emerald with her father.
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Past Releases:
The fault lies in the fault lines.
nimbus is proud to present the regional premiere of Naomi Iizuka's Strike-Slip directed by co-Artistic Director Josh Cragun.
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?
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They're baaaaack...
nimbus presents Nights of the Living Fringe
Back from the depths of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, five of this year\'s hottest shows have returned to the Minneapolis Theatre Garage. These audience favorite, encore-winning, critically lauded shows are back for a few nights only. Presented by nimbus and Rockstar Storytellers, together with a special nimbus production of The Zoo Story, Nights of the Living Fringe will only be here from October 15 - November 1.
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Heaven doesn't happen all at once.
nimbus presents The Trial of Mother Teresa, a new play written by Dani Givens and directed by Liz Neerland
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, written by nimbus alumna Dani Givens and directed by nimbus co-Artistic Director Liz Neerland. Outside of space and time, Mother Teresa and Joan of Arc meet for the first time. United by chance in a purgatorial limbo, the two women bond over their lives as religious icons. As they share their thoughts on faith and sainthood, the pair is judged by a panel of cardinals bent on either inquisition or canonization, whichever comes first. This incisive commentary explores faith, doubt, and politics while challenging our deepest beliefs about the nature of privacy in the age of publicity.
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A first in the annals of lunacy
nimbus presents Pirandello's Henry IV, in the regional premiere of a new adaptation by Tom Stoppard.
Sanity and madness vie for control in Pirandello's Henry IV, as reimagined by Tom Stoppard. The title character isn't the eleventh-century German monarch, however - he's an Italian aristocrat who thinks he's the ruler after receiving a head injury. Hidden away by relatives for twenty years, "Henry" has been allowed to lead the idyllic existence of a king. But when his family comes to cure his madness, the resulting chaos will shatter his haven and have everyone questioning who is truly sane. Directed by nimbus co-Artistic Director Josh Cragun.
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An unforgivable act, an unforgettable voice.
nimbus presents Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden
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 her torturer. Seeking retribution, she kidnaps him and insists that he confess. But does she have the right man?
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How far would you go to keep your vegetables safe?
nimbus presents The Irresistible Rise of Big Daddy Ubu at the Minneapolis Theater Garage
Music, mischief, and murder collide in The Irresistible Rise of Big Daddy Ubu, written and directed by nimbus co-Artistic Director Josh Cragun. This wickedly comic glimpse inside the ganglands of 1930s Chicago follows the rise of Big Daddy Ubu, a killer who'll stop at nothing to overthrow the rival Artichoke Alliance. Together with his wife Ma Ubu, Big Daddy claws his way to the top of Chicago's vegetable rackets only to lose the one thing worth saving: his conscience. Originally performed in 2002, this year's musical production blends political satire with works by Bertolt Brecht and Alfred Jarry. The result is a razor-sharp critique of political wheeling and dealing, just in time for the upcoming election season.
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Fame is a full time job.
nimbus presents TV Men, an original company-workshopped production.
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?
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You Should Read Closely the Prenup
nimbus presents the regional premier of Charles Mee's The Mail Order Bride
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.
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One cannot lightly dismiss the command of destiny
nimbus presents part two of a new adaptation of Aeschylus' classic trilogy.
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.
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This House Must Tell Its Own Story
nimbus presents the first part of a new adaptation of Aeschylus' classic trilogy.
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.
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Animation from the area's most talented animators. Satire from your favorite actors. Noise from 1776.
nimbus presents a new multimedia experience exploring the American Dream.
The American Dream: for more than two hundred years this sacred cliché has attracted the huddled masses, created unprecedented personal wealth and kept treatment centers open for business. American Noise: The Savage Re-Birth of the American Dream is an irreverent interactive spectacle that explores how each generation tries to live the dream, live up to the dream or, at the very least, keep the dream on life support while the lawyers battle it out.
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Did you ever think you'd come back from your splendid life and find you had no life left?
nimbus presents the regional premier of Edward Albee's award winning play The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?
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.
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If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art as Lawful as Eating
nimbus presents Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Remade.
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 unique performance filled with music, laughter, sorrow and joy.
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A Season of Premiers
nimbus announces its 2006-2007 season.
nimbus, a local theatre group dedicated to producing thought-provoking, artistically challenging contemporary theatre, today formally announced its exciting 2006-2007 season, which will feature four works previously unseen by Twin Cities audiences. The season will begin and end with new adaptations of classic work, and feature a regional premiere of a Tony-Award winning play and a world premier of a new work by a local author in between.
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The Raptus Will Set You Free
nimbus closes its 2005-2006 season with Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
When an anarchist accused of bombing a bank "accidentally" falls out of 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.
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THE END SHALL JUSTIFY THE MEANNESS
nimbus presents a macabre fairy tale about the unchecked pursuit of power.
What happens when a society trades its values for power? When the need to fight an enemy of inhuman brutality causes a man to become more despicable than those he has fought? In savage times such questions must be asked, as they are in Madmen and Specialists by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, presented by nimbus at the Minneapolis Theater Garage.
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IT IS GOOD TO USE THE WORD AS A WEAPON
nimbus brings the Revolution and the Resurrection to the Minneapolis Theater Garage.
Seeing that workers are on the verge of revolution, two 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. This is Propaganda for the Converted, a challenging and provocative original play written by Philadelphia poet and playwright David Spolum and presented by nimbus.
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EVERY CITY, EVERY STREET, EVERY FAMILY HAS A HISTORY TO TELL
nimbus' 2005-2006 season opens with Minnehaha Avenue at the Theater 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.
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A NEW SEASON DAWNS
nimbus announces 2005-2006 season at the Minneapolis Theater Garage
nimbus, the nomadic Twin Cities theater company known for producing innovative and expirimental work, has settled down: at least for a year. The company has booked time for all four of the plays in its coming season at the Minneapolis Theater Garage, on the corner of Lydale and Franklin Avenues in Minneapolis.
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DECENCY, CHARITY AND HIGH EXPLOSIVES
nimbus 2004-2005 season ends with The Firebugs at 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.
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THEY CHANGE REGIMES MORE OFTEN THAN WE CHANGE CLOTHES
nimbus presents Beautiful Things at the Minneapolis Theater Garage
What is Beauty? What does it mean to have it, to desire it, to acquire it... to take it? Five Americans find themselves trapped in comfort and imprisoned by luxury when violence breaks out near the seaside resort they are staying at. As the insurrection moves closer, we discover that good taste can have deadly consequences.
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TAKE THIS JOB AND KEEP IT
nimbus makes its fourth annual Fringe Festival offering, Unemployable
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 Dr. Phil. No matter what your work or what you do to avoid working, Unemployable, the latest and greatest production from nimbus, will remind you why you do it.
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IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
nimbus 2004 season opens with Endgame at Xelias Studios
Somewhere between life and death, just short of the night but far past dawn, four spectral characters wait in vain for the end. The end of the world, the end of their lives-the end of something . . . anything. Not quite comedy, not quite tragedy, nimbus opens its 2004 season with the Samuel Beckett's modern classic Endgame.
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