Trick Boxing

Park Square Theatre
20 W 7th Pl St. Paul

Trick Boxing began its life as a 45-minute Minnesota Fringe Festival smash hit in 2002 and has been going strong since then. After taking the show as far as Edinburgh, London, Prague and Vancouver, Megan and Brian put it on the shelf for five years as they pursued other work in the Twin Cities. Then, in 2010, the pair decided to polish up the gem and take it to the New York International Fringe Festival where a critic for The New York Times called it "the best show I have seen." Two years later, after a significant rewrite, they premiered the now 90-minute show at the Guthrie's Dowling Stage, blew away box office projections, and took it on the road where they consistently "send the entire audience out of the theatre with a spring in their step," as The Guardian of London put it. Not content to rest on their laurels, the pair is creating a brand new opening for the "two-person tour de force" and will restage it to take specific advantage of the intimate thrust stage.