Rasputin Returns For a Two Week Run at Open Eye Theatre, Do Not Miss!!!

 The best show of the 2023 Twin Cities horror festival is making a special two-week return engagement at Open Eye theater. Slightly expanded but in no way diminished the show has to be seen to be believed. Every performance sold out at the TCHF last fall so don’t wait to get your tickets. Below is reprint of my review from last fall.

Rasputin from Four Humors, the theater group that started the TCHF returns with their first post pandemic show and it was the best of the night, running neck and neck with Marie-Jeanne Valet, Who Defeated La Bete du Gévaudan from opening night as “Best of the Fest”. What do they have in common? Both are based on historical events, both set during a period in history when a revolution is just over the horizon, both feature a live musical score performed on stage, and finally, both feature Allison Vincent. It’s becoming clear that if you want to have a hit show at TCHF, you cast Allison Vincent in it. This time Vincent also is credited as co writer along with the three other cast members Ryan Lear, Brant Miller, and Matt Spring. The play uses a Rashomon style narrative device, wherein the three men who killed Rasputin, the Mad Monk of Russia, tell their different stories to the inspectors investigating the murder. We see the same evening play out in three different versions. Spring plays Rasputin with the swagger and confidence of a rock star, it’s a brilliant turn, but then so are all of the performances in this production. There is some rather effective special effects in this show too, including a spectacularly realistic gunshot. This was sold out and I wouldn’t be surprised if that trend continues for the entire run. Definitely more on the humorous side of things, but it’s not all fun and games!

 Rasputin runs through May 18th and open eye theater in Minneapolis for more information and purchase tickets go to https://www.fourhumorstheater.com/

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