Walking Shadow Theatre Company
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Walking Shadow Theatre Company is a Minneapolis-based professional non-profit theatre company which was founded in 2004 by John Heimbuch, Amy Rummenie and David Pisa with the following aims: to develop the talents of its artists, to nurture audience commitment to the arts, to facilitate dialogue within the community and to examine local culture in a global context. The company's name comes from Act V, Scene V of William Shakespeare's Macbeth
. Heimbuch, Rummenie and Pisa currently serve as the company's co-artistic directors.
2010: Mojo; The Transdimensional Couriers Union; See You Next Tuesday; The Crowd You're In With
2009: Caligula
; Robots vs. Fake Robots; SQUAWK; Some Girl(s)
2008: 36 Views; The American Pilot; William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead; Amazons and Their Men
2007: The Cryptogram
; Fat Pig
; Mr. Marmalade
2006: 1926 Pleasant; Seventy Scenes of Halloween
2005: 10-Speed Revolution
2004: The Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
. Heimbuch, Rummenie and Pisa currently serve as the company's co-artistic directors.
Production history
2011: Drakul; after the quake2010: Mojo; The Transdimensional Couriers Union; See You Next Tuesday; The Crowd You're In With
2009: Caligula
Caligula (play)
Caligula is a play written by Albert Camus, begun in 1938 and published for the first time in May 1944 by Éditions Gallimard. The play was later the subject of numerous revisions. It was part of what the author called the "Cycle of the Absurd", with the novel The Outsider and the essay The Myth...
; Robots vs. Fake Robots; SQUAWK; Some Girl(s)
2008: 36 Views; The American Pilot; William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead; Amazons and Their Men
2007: The Cryptogram
The Cryptogram
The Cryptogram is a 1995 play by American playwright David Mamet. The play concerns the moment when childhood is lost. The story is set in 1959 on the night before a young boy is to go on a camping trip with his father....
; Fat Pig
Fat Pig
- Plot synopsis :Fat Pig tells us the story of Tom, a stereotypical professional in a large city, who falls for a very plus-size librarian named Helen. They meet in a crowded cafeteria at lunchtime and get to talking. Tom is taken with her brash acceptance of the way people see her and her...
; Mr. Marmalade
2006: 1926 Pleasant; Seventy Scenes of Halloween
2005: 10-Speed Revolution
2004: The Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen