b e d l a m t h e a t r e

P.O. Box 583082

Minneapolis, MN 55458-3082

Telephone: 612.341.1038

Critical Praises for Bedlam Theatre’s production of

TO SHINING SEA: The Imperial American History Pageant

"If you missed the bill of one-acts at Bedlam ... The bad news is that you overlooked the brilliant To Shining Sea, an audacious, adventurous indictment of America the xenophobic. A Bedlam Studio collaboration spearheaded and directed by John Francis Bueche, this free-wheeling foray into political protest is one of avant-theatre's true shining hours… For all its hilarity, To Shining Sea doesn't take this country's crimes against humanity as a laughing matter. The satire makes scathing comment on, among other frightening truths, the fact that this country was built on, and yet thrives through, military subjugation of people of color at home and abroad."

- Dwight Hobbes, Insight News

“It appears to me, that the people are ingenious, and would be good servants. I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men, and govern them as I pleased.”

- Christopher Columbus

“If we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe has been exterminated…”

- Thomas Jefferson

“Bring it on!”

- George W. Bush

Critical Praises for Bedlam Theatre

“Go to the Bedlam Theatre becasue then, and only then, can you claim ownership of a truly broad spectrum of consciousness regarding what is possible in the fantastic world of live theatre.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune (2002)

“The feisty, imaginative troupe...” - Minneapolis Star Tribune (2004)

“No one else in town is quite this giddily, raggedly, original.” - City Pages (2004)

“...the gutsiest, riskiest theatre around.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune (2001)

“,..the most delicious vertignous feeling takes hold of the entire audience, and we all start deliriourly laughing. I’ve never experienced anything like it in the thearte.” - The New York Theatre Experience (2002)