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Watch for news on Frank's upcoming project--a company generated
adaptation of Frank's Kafka's 1912 novella THE METAMORPHOSIS. Coming
soon!
Newsletter PDF—Click to download
Frank Theatre is a professional theatre company committed to producing unique work which stretches the skills of the artists who create the work while simultaneously challenging the everyday perceptions of the audience through the exploration of ideas and issues of social, political and/or cultural concern. Recent work includes Martin McDonagh’s THE PILLOWMAN, Suzan-Lori Parks’ VENUS, Shakespeare’s THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Carson Kreitzer’s THE LOVE SONG OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, Marc Blitzstein’s THE CRADLE WILL ROCK and Bertolt Brecht’s MOTHER COURAGE.
For further information, please contact Frank Theatre at (612) 724 3760, or at info@franktheatre.org.
"God bless her, because if it weren't for Knox, Twin Cities audiences would
never get to see Brecht, the wild and woolly German playwright who saw
theater as political energy and a platform to invite the masses in for a
slap in the face." Graydon Royce, StarTribune
"Frank Theatre's production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui manages to
make theater matter again and address the fear of the nation. In a moment
when the policies of the U.S. government can have such a profound effect on
the world, Brecht's political views could not be more appropriate." OBJECT MAGAZINE
"Wendy Knox didn't wait for someone to build her a space. This fall, she
demonstrated again the vital role Frank Theatre plays in the theatre
ecosystem, staging the difficult ARTURO UI at Metro State's St. Paul
campus." StarTribune, year end, 2001
"As the driving force behind Frank Theatre, Wendy Knox is the ideal mix of
pragmatist and dreamer: She is as artistically adventurous as any director
in town, but also sensible enough never to let her ambition overleap her
company's resources. Last year's Frank production of Brecht/Weill's The
Threepenny Opera was proof positive of Knox's talent. Set in the gloomy
warren of the Southern Theater and suffused with hellish red light, Frank's
Threepenny created an atmosphere of amplified gloom. From the very first
scene, in which the cast posed in lurid tableaux of sexual congress and
violence, it was clear that Knox knew exactly how to play this tricky
script. This was Brecht as Brecht would have had it: a throng of thoroughly
despicable characters floundering in an industrial morass. Dark stuff, to be sure, but illuminating as well. Though Brecht's play is famous for
alienating its audience with uncomfortable truths, Frank's Threepenny had us bewitched from the very start."
CITY PAGES, BEST STAGE PRODUCTION, 1999
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