Guthrie Theater

But there's also Chichester, which was made in emulation of the festival.

The Guthrie Theatre, the Mark Taper Farm in L.A., the Vivian Beaumart at Lincoln Center, which they came and actually measured the festival stage and kind of cut it down by half.

But it doesn't work as well.

I mean, we took Lear with Chris Plummer down there and there were actors, you know, extraordinary actors like Brent Carver, who were absolutely audible on the festival stage.

So I went to...

Are they employment or unemployment? I went to an employment office and said, you know, I'm from the Guthrie Theater and I know classical theater, Shakespeare and Moyer and things like that.

And they, I mean, it's almost like, we don't care, lady.

They could have cared less.

But I could reason it out.

And my mind is very management oriented.

I came from the Guthrie Theater.

I know management.

And I was like...

It's the Guthrie Theater.

Oh my God, I'm going to the Guthrie.

They're going to pay me $1,000 a week.

Well, I was teaching at Augustana, and I attended a conference for the American Theater Association in Minneapolis, and there were no sessions that were appropriate for my teaching position or for my love of acting and directing.

So I went to one that was on dinner theater, and the people that I had trained with who came in for the Guthrie Theater music wasn't real theater.

Musicals were not real theater.

And dinner theater was certainly not real theater.

So how did you know that you were succeeding at this? When was the moment where you said, okay,

it's working? I can tell you exactly when I got to New York because I was at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater as a McKnight Fellow for two seasons, and my parts were so small.

I think I had 22 parts in 11 plays in two seasons.

Like in Cyrano, I had three parts.

And when I became Tova, it happens also to be a Danish name.

So I got a fellowship to the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the Scandinavians live.

And they thought Tova Felchuk was a local girl.

You know what I'm saying? Do he die to who? Do he die to who? T-O-V-E with like an F-J with a slash and an E-D-S-H-U-H.

And you're listening to We Love Minnesota Theater.

In this episode, we will be talking about Macbeth that we saw at the Guthrie Theater this past weekend.

That's right.

If you're in the play, you're not supposed to say the name of the play.

It was before a show I was doing of Lewis in Iowa, and my producer had me to dinner at his home beforehand.

And when I was there, I saw a postcard sent to my host from the Guthrie Theater advertising one person, word for word, presentation of the entire Gospel of St.

Mark in the King James Version.

And I thought, wow, wouldn't it be something if somebody did that from a down-home approach? As though they were born, like, maybe in Alabama.