Fringe 2025 Returning Favorites - Third Space Theater (Alex Church) - Breach

Last year, Alex Church wrote a script (Dutch: Made In America) in which he portrayed a young Ronald Reagan who, among other things, got into a losing fight with a sock puppet of FDR in a mini-cardboard wheelchair so… anything’s possible.

In fact, the thing I most admire and sometimes find challenging about Alex’s work is that it is quite literally never the same twice - there was the rock musical about alcoholism where Whiskey and basic human emotions were characters alongside members of a very dysfunctional family; there was the two-person play where a man is trapped in a repeating personal hellscape with the woman he abused in life now tormenting him in return; there was a dark comedy about a politician’s family coming unglued overnight when her bid for re-election goes south; and the aforementioned trippy Ronald Reagan play.  And now, we take to the high seas, with menacing crab puppets in the mix.  And when I say challenging, I don’t mean that in a bad way, just that I’m never at ease.  I don’t walk in thinking “Ah yes, another Alex Church production.  I know exactly what I’m in for with this one.”

Breach
Third Space Theater (Alex Church)
Written by Mariabella Sorini and Alex Church
Venue: TRP
 
Show Description:
The crew aboard The Shrike must fight for their lives and sanity in a thrilling, surrealist voyage through the pulse-pounding hostility of the Bering Sea. Portion of proceeds donated to The Freshwater Society
 
Third Space Theater is a new theater company dedicated to exploring an activist artistic practice in order to create art that outlives itself. Each production pairs with a quality, thematically-relevant local non-profit making tangible change in the Twin Cities and provides them with free advertising, amplification of their events/trainings, and a portion of ticket sales as a donation. 

Third Space Theater is proud to be partnering with Freshwater Society on this production. Freshwater is a Minnesota nonprofit whose mission is to inspire and empower people to value and preserve water. They do this through community education and engagement, research projects, and policy efforts across the state and region. To get involved, check out their Adopt a River and Minnesota Water Stewards programs!

Genre & Content:
Comedy, Drama, Original Music, Physical Theater, Puppetry
Warnings:
Adult Language, Loud Noises, Flashing Lights, Violence, Other Divisive Content
 
So join me, as we try to figure out what the heck Alex and his collaborators are up to this time.

 

Here’s some handy links to my Fringe Top 10, Top 11 to 20 and Returning Favorites lists for this year, as well as all the coverage of this year’s Minnesota Fringe Festival.