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Out of the Pan Into the Fire
Southern Theater
1420 Washington Ave S Minneapolis
It's a fairytale, but not one you've ever read before. It takes place in the days when wishing was still of some use, and also right now. A lot of stuff happens, like growing up, as in Out of the Pan Into the Fire. It's pretty funny, a little naive, and then it gets scary, a bit grotesque, Grimm, you might say, and kind of brutal, painful, like it makes your heart hurt a little.
Presented by The Moving Company
Thru - May 26, 2013
| Thursdays: |
7:30pm |
| Fridays: |
7:30pm |
| Saturdays: |
7:30pm |
| Sundays: |
7:30pm |
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Price: $18.50-$28
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Out of the Pan Into the Fire Reviews
| Star Tribune - Recommended
"...With all this natural comic energy at work, the most astonishing thing about "Out of the Pan" is how genuine the pathos feels. Fairy tales are wonderfully wrought works of great emotional depth. Serrand and his confreres adhere to that aesthetic throughout. These guys still have something to say."
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Twin Cities Daily Planet - Recommended
"...Along the way, the "children" are abandoned (Angelo leaves them so they can grow up), tortured (an evil witch, a stomped small midget Stumpfmutter gets abusive), and visited by a randy Prince Roland (who Elsie unceremoniously and efficiently removes); the last two characters are played both grotesquely and charmingly by Sam Kruger. As in a fairy tale, all the elements together are grotesque, charming, and serve up a lesson via philosophical food for thought about fear, dread, reverence, knowledge, and wisdom. In the end the show delivers more than just a moral, from a time when "wishing was useful.""
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Twin Cities Pioneer Press - Recommended
"...The actors are a joy and the story a puzzle of layered metaphors and meanings that seem nonsensical on the surface but promise to explode in your brain with a clarity too excruciating to endure. Eternal truths are like that. Life is painful. Loved ones leave. People die. Wars begin. Nothing stays the same -- even though we sometimes wish it would."
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