Email Author Ed Huyck

2013 Stories by Ed Huyck

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  Hamlet: 'It is too long'

  published May 23, 2013

  It's a decided mixed bag with Theatre Coup d'Etat's latest effort. The young company's third go-round with Shakespeare finds them tackling the difficult text of Hamlet. To the company's credit, there ... More >>

• I Love to Eat: Cooking with James Beard

  published April 24, 2013

  As the prevalence of restaurants and obesity numbers indicate, Minnesotans love to eat. Maybe it is the long winters, when our brains tell us that... More >>

• Nice Fish

  published April 9, 2013

  English actor Mark Rylance returns to the Guthrie, following performances with the all-male Shakespeare's Globe company (as Olivia in Twelfth... More >>

• Fondly, Collette Richland

  published May 15, 2013

  Back in 2006, the Elevator Repair Service brought Gatz to the Walker Art Center. The conceit was relatively simple: An office drone picks... More >>

• Cul-de-Sac reveals suburban darkness

  published May 22, 2013

  In Daniel MacIvor's play, the cul-de-sac in question really is just the terminus of a dead-end road. It certainly was a dead end for... More >>

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  Hamlet: 'It's been really exciting to dig into that nerdy Shakespeare text stuff'

  published May 21, 2013

  As he prepared for his first foray as the prince of Denmark, Peter Beard realized something that actors over the centuries have noted about Shakespeare's Hamlet."It's a lot longer than I remember it,"... More >>

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  The Primrose Path: 'Of course I'm loud, I'm Russian'

  published May 20, 2013

  Going to The Primrose Path, the world-premiere production now at the Guthrie Theater, means watching a show at war with itself.Is it a comedyr A romancer A commentary on the Russian ruling class durin... More >>

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  Elevator Repair Service gets contemporary in latest work

  published May 16, 2013

  For its latest project, experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service chose to do something that is pretty standard for most ensembles."We wanted to shake things up and push our boundaries. The... More >>

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  Alice in Wonderland: Whimsy on top of whimsy

  published May 15, 2013

  You usually know what you're going to get with a production of Alice in Wonderland: a young girl, a late rabbit, and lots of imagery that would fit in well on a Syd-Barrett-era Pink Floyd album.The Ch... More >>

• An Iliad captures the classic tale

  published May 15, 2013

  An Iliad opens with the quiet before the storm. It's clear something is up once you arrive on the ninth floor of the Guthrie Theater.... More >>

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  An Iliad: War goes on, and on, and on

  published May 09, 2013

  Homer first wrote about the events in The Iliad nearly 3,000 years ago. Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's An Iliad shows us that little has changed in the interceding centuries.Stephen Yoakam, under th... More >>

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  Pop Up Musical: Songs for the short-attention-span era

  published May 08, 2013

  VH1's Pop-Up Videos was first broadcast in 1996 -- ancient history in pop-culture terms. So it does seem like the latest offering from the Producing House is a bit behind the curve. Then again, the VH... More >>

• A Streetcar Named Desire drives at the heart

  published May 8, 2013

  Tennessee Williams's plays are rich concoctions that can easily go to your head like a liqueur — sweet, easy to drink in, and able to... More >>

• Out of the Pan into the Fire

  published May 8, 2013

  You can get a feel for how a show has gone by the debris left on stage at the end. What do we have following Out of the Pan into the... More >>

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  Old Log Theater to be sold

  published May 06, 2013

  The oldest professional theater in the Twin Cities area will soon be under new ownership for the first time in nearly 70 years.Don Stolz began working at the Old Log in 1941, directing Ned McCobb's Da... More >>

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  The Moving Company returns with Out of the Pan Into the Fire

  published May 03, 2013

  For their latest effort, the Moving Company mined a rich storytelling vein: fairy tales. In the end, they weren't interested in retelling a single story, but instead grabbed characters and situations ... More >>

• Misterman

  published April 2, 2013

  Some of the brightest luminaries in Twin Cities theater are part of Misterman — though they are never seen onstage. Actor John Catron... More >>

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  Path for Guthrie world premiere pleasant for creators

  published May 02, 2013

  For years, actor and director Roger Rees has loved Ivan Turgenev's second novel, even though it never was all that popular outside of Russia. One issuer An awkward title that translates, at best, as "... More >>

• Treasure Island is an adventure

  published May 1, 2013

  Theatrical thrills come in many packages, and there is something particularly compelling when limited resources meet boundless imagination.... More >>

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  Too many empty calories in I Love to Eat

  published Apr 29, 2013

  Like James Beard, the sole character in James Still's play, I love to eat. I also love to cook -- that was forged by my chef father and a childhood spent experimenting in the kitchen. I cooked my way... More >>

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  A saint and redemption at core of Open Window's latest

  published Apr 26, 2013

  In 1902, Alessandro Serenelli attempted to rape 12-year-old Maria Goretti. She resisted, and the 19-year-old mortally stabbed her. Before she died, Maria forgave her murderer. The young woman was ca... More >>

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  Garry Geiken on playing James Beard: "I learned how progressive his ideas about people and their relationship to food was."

  published Apr 25, 2013

  Early on while preparing for his role as James Beard in the one-man show I Love to Eat, Garry Geiken realized that there is a "big difference between trying culinary experiments without talking to a... More >>

• Gross Indecency puts Wilde on trial

  published April 24, 2013

  In 1895, Oscar Wilde was charged with committing "gross indecencies" — i.e., he was gay — but it was his art and personality that... More >>

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  History Theatre's latest is Paradise lost

  published Apr 23, 2013

  In my mind, there is not wasted experience at the theater. There's always something you can observe, feel, or learn from attending a show. Take This Side of Paradise, the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzger... More >>

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  Lorca in a Green Dress: An afterlife with dreams

  published Apr 19, 2013

  Surreal and elliptical, Nilo Cruz's Lorca in a Green Dress attempts to not just uncover the final moments of the life of the Spanish poet and playwright, but tries to connect the personal pieces of hi... More >>