Four Humors Theater Announces Upcoming Events

On June 5th 2011, Four Humors theater launches an ambitious new season full of original works in a variety of performance styles and genres including farce, puppetry, historical and sci-fi. Now in its 6th year of performance, Four Humors is excited to bring its unique vision and performance philosophy to stages across the Twin Cities and beyond.

Four Humors' new season begins at the 8th annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival with the original, world premiere production of You Only Live Forever Once, a comedic spy show of epic proportions told through a mix of live action and puppetry. Traveling the world in style and hopping from the arms of one femme fatale to another, secret agent Dave Johnson must stop the mysterious Agent X from destroying the world before it's too late. Filled with intrigue, danger and hot glue, You Only Live Forever Once is sure to leave the audience gasping for breath at every humorous, hairpin turn. You Only Live Forever Once returns to Minneapolis in August as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Directed by Acclaim Award winning director Jason Ballweber and featuring Four Humors Theater company members as the ensemble.

In July, Four Humors travels to Plainview, MN and the Jon Hassler Theater with the original, world premiere production of Happy Café, a fast-paced, non-stop farce centered around God's Grace Chocolate Cake; the best cake in the world. The Happy Café is Johnsonville's only restaurant. With mediocre food, bad service and run by the bizarre Mr. Claudius Happy, the only thing it really has going for it is its cake, a secret recipe that Mr. Happy guards with his life. However, just as World's Cake Symposium announces that its annual conference is being held in Johnsonville, the recipe goes missing and Mr. Happy will stop at nothing to recreate it and secure his chance at fame. With pompous cake connoisseurs, a narcoleptic waiter, and triplet busboys, The Happy Cafe will be an uproarious farce the whole family will enjoy. Written and directed by Dell'Arte International graduate and former faculty member Tyler Olsen and featuring Four Humors Theater company members as the ensemble.

In September, The Loring Theater presents Four Humors' original, world premiere production ofThe Extraordinary Terms of Ordinary Life, a dark comedy set in the sky-rocketing world of life insurance sales just prior to the stock market crash of 1929. A young man joins the sales force of a life insurance firm and quickly works his way to the top, learning along the way that even the most well-intentioned people have their own personal demons to overcome. Directed by Ryan Lear, co-creator of the award winning play The Finkles' Theater Show!!!, and featuring Four Humors Theater company members as the ensemble.

In November, Four Humors presents the original, world premiere production of Skinner Box, a sci-fi comedy based on the experiments of the world-famous, behavioral scientist B.F. Skinner. Inside Skinner's top-secret, morally dubious experiment, two boys are raised from birth isolated from the rest of the world. When they escape their enclosure after 25 years of captivity, the boys encounter the strangeness of the real world yet find it bears surprising similarities to their previous life of levers and food pellets. Directed and written by Brant Miller, co-writer of Four Humors' 2010 production Welcome to Dystopia, and featuring Four Humors Theater company members as the ensemble.

In addition to the above season, Four Humors Theater will continue to present its monthly variety and cabaret production The Firsty Thursday Show on the first Thursday of every month in downtown Minneapolis. Now in its 8th month, The Firsty Thursday Show has wowed audiences and performers alike in its vision and high-caliber performance. Firsty Thursday veterans include performance groups Live Action Set, Mixed Precipitation and HUGE Improv; performance artists Andrea Leap, Dario Tangelson and Andrea Noel; dancers Erin Sheppard and Amelia English; spoken word artists Shane Hawley, Dylan Garity, and Sam Cook; and musical groups Four Pints Shy, The Poor Nobodys, Tree Party and I Like You. Each month features different local acts and original comedy by Four Humors Theater.

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