Market Garden Theatre was founded in Fall 2013 by a group of young, educated and passionate theatre artists wanting to create their own artistic voice in the Twin Cities.
Mission Statement
To produce quality storytelling through creative innovation, dedicated professionalism and respected collaboration.
Artistic Statement
Market Garden Theatre derives our name from two vital and honored human traditions, market: the place where persons of all backgrounds come together to exchange goods and ideas; and garden: the place for growing produce to nurture body and soul.
MGT is a gathering of people celebrating learning and growth - a chance for our community to bond, develop, and evolve. This is what the arts can do in a community. Through song, dance, and spoken word, ideas and cultures are conveyed and exchanged. These art forms are gateways into other worlds and tools to broaden perspectives.
Markets are more than places of commerce but also places of growth and insight. From fruits, vegetables and grain, great empires have been born; cultures and people who have shaped the world as it is today all started from the garden. Their seeds have created a menagerie of variety and color. This inherent array is how we perceive the arts. We value all forms of expressions in performance. From upbeat musicals to dark dramas and everything in between, each is valid. We promote experimental new work, revived classics and the work of well-read writers. We value each script, libretto, and score upon what its integrity of meaning. We take pride in telling all stories.
Our art is based through our communal work together, education and training, and our undeniable passion for quality and success. We do not wait for our 'big break' to reach us but want to meet it head on.
Mission Statement
To produce quality storytelling through creative innovation, dedicated professionalism and respected collaboration.
Artistic Statement
Market Garden Theatre derives our name from two vital and honored human traditions, market: the place where persons of all backgrounds come together to exchange goods and ideas; and garden: the place for growing produce to nurture body and soul.
MGT is a gathering of people celebrating learning and growth - a chance for our community to bond, develop, and evolve. This is what the arts can do in a community. Through song, dance, and spoken word, ideas and cultures are conveyed and exchanged. These art forms are gateways into other worlds and tools to broaden perspectives.
Markets are more than places of commerce but also places of growth and insight. From fruits, vegetables and grain, great empires have been born; cultures and people who have shaped the world as it is today all started from the garden. Their seeds have created a menagerie of variety and color. This inherent array is how we perceive the arts. We value all forms of expressions in performance. From upbeat musicals to dark dramas and everything in between, each is valid. We promote experimental new work, revived classics and the work of well-read writers. We value each script, libretto, and score upon what its integrity of meaning. We take pride in telling all stories.
Our art is based through our communal work together, education and training, and our undeniable passion for quality and success. We do not wait for our 'big break' to reach us but want to meet it head on.
Our Foundation
Collaboration
The arts achieve success through intense and dedicated collaboration. We value our collective creativity as paramount, working together to create theatre. We recognize that we cannot make our theatre thrive without talented individuals and groups, both on and off stage.
Caliber
Regardless of a production’s resources, we strive to implement all aspects of our theatre from directing, managing, acting, scenography etc., in the highest caliber as the value of the production being the sum of its parts.
Creativity
No matter the artistic medium, we are dedicated to innovation to the creation. We present the production that each of the artists and stakeholders involved decide is the best way for us to tell the story. This way is not the right way but our way, telling the story in its purest form.
We promise to bring high-caliber and foreword thinking theatrical productions to the community. We value collaboration, both between the artists involved, donors, audience members and artistic supporters. Our productions are based upon the ideas and energies of the creative team; our choices are founded in our perspective of each specific text. Our productions will be mounted with the utmost professionalism and execution. This desire of excellence is our blood.
This is our promise to you.
Collaboration
The arts achieve success through intense and dedicated collaboration. We value our collective creativity as paramount, working together to create theatre. We recognize that we cannot make our theatre thrive without talented individuals and groups, both on and off stage.
Caliber
Regardless of a production’s resources, we strive to implement all aspects of our theatre from directing, managing, acting, scenography etc., in the highest caliber as the value of the production being the sum of its parts.
Creativity
No matter the artistic medium, we are dedicated to innovation to the creation. We present the production that each of the artists and stakeholders involved decide is the best way for us to tell the story. This way is not the right way but our way, telling the story in its purest form.
We promise to bring high-caliber and foreword thinking theatrical productions to the community. We value collaboration, both between the artists involved, donors, audience members and artistic supporters. Our productions are based upon the ideas and energies of the creative team; our choices are founded in our perspective of each specific text. Our productions will be mounted with the utmost professionalism and execution. This desire of excellence is our blood.
This is our promise to you.
