Twin Cities Daily Planet - Somewhat Recommended

"... Apprentice's visual delights and richness of tone are more than sufficient to strongly recommend the show, but it's less successful from a narrative standpoint. The story is episodic and choppy, and much of the humor feels awkwardly inserted rather than authentic to the characters. Though Eric Jensen's score (played live by a four-member ensemble) is moody and effective, the show's one song is not great."
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Aisle Say Twin Cities - Recommended

"... At the end of the show, the puppeteers put down their marionettes and came out on stage for a well-deserved bow. They looked huge, towering over the world that the marionettes had just inhabited. It’s not that puppeteers Laura Abend, Kyle Loven, Liz Schachterle, and Justin Spooner are particularly tall people. It’s that the show had trained me to see the marionettes’ size and proportions as a kind of norm. The fact that I experienced these artists as disproportionately tall, as literal giants, is a testament to the work’s success. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice establishes a world where rules of size and space work differently from our own. In so doing, the production does not just show the story of an aging sorcerer and his unwitting new apprentice, it teaches us how to see it."
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