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City Pages Review of Sunrise Cafe

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"... this Theatre Gallery production, which breaks my heart... is about the most haunting work of theater I saw in 2002. The Theatre Gallery consists of Paul Herwig and Jennifer Ilse, who here portrayed a lonely, meditative long-haul driver and an exhausted waitress in the last hours of their unsatisfying lives. The play was something of a mournful musical, with a score consisting of a few country ballads by Marc Doty, played on an old-fangled synthesizer. This sounded for all the world like the sort of tinny, excessively weepy stuff that might whine from a '70s-era portable radio. The cast also included Josh Scrimshaw playing a silently sinister short-order chef. The Theatre Gallery will remount this play in January of the coming year. Go see it."

- CITY PAGES "The Ten Best of the Twin Cities", 2002, 12/4/2003