The Thing Directors: George McConnell & Samantha Johns 1419 Washington Ave. Minneapolis MN January 2010
Ensemble: Lauren Anderson, John Francis Bueche, Tera Kilbride, Tom Lloyd, Alisa Mattson, Billy Mullaney & Carly Wicks
Photos by Colleen Lamb & Marcus Johnson ___________________________________________________________________
The Thing Reviews/Press "some things you don't want to analyze because they seem fragile and different and exciting and you're afraid that if you try to take them apart and see how they work, they might break. It's like that feeling you have driving home in your car after you've just met someone who you're really excited to see again and you think you might want to, and get to, see again and again and again and again and again. The Thing is about that feeling... The Thing breaks the rules to show you that the rules can be broken and so the game is even more fun than you thought it was." -Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet "The Thing": 26 things
"there was only one show this year that I saw and then immediately made plans to see again... a kaleidoscopic, constantly changing vocabulary of words and gestures; and heartbreaking scenes of visual beauty and the kind of honesty you just can't achieve with a conventional script... it burned awkwardness like it was jet fuel. Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." -Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet Top ten plays of 2010
"generated a charged gap between me and my hopes, the beauty and excitement of a potential connection and the sadness of our longing for that connection." -Kevin Lally, Happiness is a Solid. Blue Skies