See Anissa in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, December 3 – 18th!
Happy holidays everyone!
I hope your Thanksgiving holiday was safe, warm, and calorie laden! It’s just starting to get cold here in Minneapolis, although we have yet to have a snowfall that sticks around for more than a few days. The Mall of America is bustling with Christmas shoppers, the bicyclists are considerably more bundled up (but still out, the crazy-heads), and I’m opening a Christmas show tonight!
When I was in college, I saw a production of “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues” and I loved it. Dark, at times irreverent, thought provoking, and surprisingly relevant subject matter despite a cast of characters made up of Santa’s eight tiny reindeer, I knew I wanted a chance to bring it to life on stage one day.
I’m getting that wish tonight. Tonight we open “The Eight” at the Workhouse Theatre Company, the Ivey award winning theatre company based in North Minneapolis. There are four of us in the cast, each playing two of Santa’s reindeer. I’ve had a really wonderful time over the last few months with this talented bunch of people, including Ben Tallen, Noe Tallen, and Richard Jackson with direction by Mark Webb.
There’s also a lot of other fantastic theater happening right now in the Twin City area; including Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory at the Minnesota Historical Society, and Le Cirque Rouge’s original burlesque production of the “NUTCRACKER SUITE”. I’m really excited about both of these productions, and I can’t wait to see them come to life.
So, if you’re looking for a great live theatre production to help celebrate the holiday season, check out one of the shows above, one of the other great live theatre productions that can be found around town, or “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues” at Workhouse Theatre.
Audience support of live theatre in the Twin Cities is how theatre artists are able to keep doing what we do. You are the reason we are able to live this life – thank you for that and have a safe holiday!!!
The Eight plays Dec 3rd-Dec 18th 2011 at The Warren – An Artist Habitat, 4400 Osseo Rd, Minneapolis MN 55412.
Show times Thursday (Dec 15th only), Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.
There is a special pay-what-you-can performance on Monday, December 5th at 7:30pm
Tickets are $15 at the door ($13 online); $13 for students and senior citizens ($11 online).
To make reservations, call 612.216.1583. To purchase tickets online, visit www.workhousetheatre.org