Guthrie Theater

Passion and our need for love can get us all in trouble. We can look far or look at our own lives and find incredible stories of unique encounters, outrageous discoveries and deep betrayals. Chain of Fools looks at those who seek love, those whose hearts break and those who dare to deny love’s truth. This presentation is performed by 11 actors in advanced acting training programs who come to the Guthrie for an eight-week summer program. This presentation contains sexual situations and mature language.

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Thirteen years ago, Artistic Director Joe Dowling created a new department at the Guthrie, Company Development, to create and oversee programs designed to develop and nurture relationships with young actors. Within that first year, A Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training made its debut and almost immediately began to bear the fruits of our efforts as alumni of the program began to appear in Guthrie productions. A Guthrie Experience quickly developed into a major program in this new department.

The objectives of A Guthrie Experience are to provoke and challenge the talents of the participants through various training workshops, discussions and individual working sessions to introduce young actors to the Guthrie and the Twin Cities and to help build a bridge between training and the profession. Our hope is that after the young artists return to their final year of training at their respective institutions and enter their professional careers, they will retain their relationship with the Guthrie and seek to spend some portions of their career here in the Twin Cities with us on our stages (and/or in other capacities) and on other stages of American Theater.