The Southern Theater presents Four Humors Theater The Age of Wordsworth

Twin Cities-based Four Humors Theater creates original, honest and innovative work that exposes the humor in our everyday lives. The Age of Wordsworth, a world premiere rock musical, focuses on loss and innocence, using the writings of William Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

This will mark the first full length musical the company has undertaken. "One of our goals as a company is to not only surprise the audience with our choices but surprise ourselves," says Jason Ballweber, Artistic Director of Four Humors. "There are a lot of people in the company that are musicians as well as performers and this has been a really great way to combine those two passions. Playing music together with the same sense of fun with which we act is a really exciting thing. Wordsworth dealt so much with stupidity and playfulness that it is a very natural fit for Four Humors to bring his work back to life."

The Age of Wordsworth will feature original music composed by Nick Jacobson-Larson and performed by the company. "They know how to use music effectively, and it is always serving the story," says Jacobson-Larson. "I love working with [Four Humors] because I know every new project will force me to write in a style or amalgam of styles that I would have never considered. For Bards, they had me writing madrigals based on Wu-Tang Clan lyrics and right now I am setting poetry to Rage Against the Machine-esque riffs."

The Age of Wordsworth will feature the talents of Four Humors' company members Brant Miller, Ryan Lear, Alisa Mattson, Jenny Moeller, Rachel Petrie, Ryan Dixon, Mark Rehani, Nick Ryan, Toby Rust, Kristin Campbell, Matt Spring and award winning director Jason Ballweber, with music by Nicholas Jacobson-Larson.

"It is very rare that we get to look at death and loss from a place of playfulness and I think it will be an amazingly fresh look at the people we have in our lives, be they living or dead," says Ballweber.

Performances: March 18-20 & 24-26, 2011
Thu. At 7:30pm
Fri. & Sat. at 8pm
Sun. at 7pm
Tickets: $22, 18
$12 student rush

Southern Theater box office: 612.340.1725
1420 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55454

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