Ten Thousand Things Theater performs plays for as many different kinds of audience as we can. We are a strictly professional theatre company that works with the best actors in the Twin Cities (our home for the past twenty-three years), performing Shakespeare, Greek tragedy, Brecht, American musicals, and contemporary plays, taking each production to seven or eight correctional facilities (men's, women's, and juvenile), nine or ten low-income centers (homeless shelters, adult-education centers, housing projects, detox centers, immigrant centers, Indian reservations, rural areas), as well as doing twelve to sixteen shows for the paying general public. That's it—taking a play directly to extremely diverse audiences in order to engage with as many different kinds of people as possible. We do not work with individual marginalized communities over stretches of time to create theatre pieces, nor do we integrate community members as actors or writers or designers in the process. This is of course very valuable work, and such work may indeed change people's lives—it's just not what we do. We have never set out to try to change anyone's life. We never will begin with that intention. We simply try to tell stories as well as we possibly can, engaging with each audience as deeply and strongly as possible.

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这只是一场戏（这就够了）

万事剧场尽可能多地为不同类型的观众表演戏剧。我们是一家严格的专业剧团，与双子城（我们过去 23 年的家）的最佳演员合作，表演莎士比亚、希腊悲剧、布莱希特、美国音乐剧和当代戏剧，每部作品最多可达到 7 个或八个惩教设施（男子、女子和青少年），九个或十个低收入中心（无家可归者收容所、成人教育中心、住房项目、戒毒中心、移民中心、印第安保留地、农村地区），以及 12 至为普通大众付费的十六场演出。就是这样——直接向极其多样化的观众播放一出戏，以便与尽可能多的不同类型的人互动。我们不会长时间与个别边缘化社区合作创作戏剧作品，我们也不会将社区成员作为演员、作家或设计师整合到这个过程中。这当然是非常有价值的工作，而且这样的工作确实可能会改变人们的生活——这不是我们做的。我们从未着手尝试改变任何人的生活。我们永远不会以这种意图开始。我们只是尽可能地讲述故事，尽可能深入和强烈地与每个观众互动。我们永远不会以这种意图开始。我们只是尽可能地讲述故事，尽可能深入和强烈地与每个观众互动。我们永远不会以这种意图开始。我们只是尽可能地讲述故事，尽可能深入和强烈地与每个观众互动。