Days and Nights

Theater companies, like most of us, are driven to find a permanent place to call home (see Ballet of the Dolls to the right). But the Skewed Visions performance troupe is at home as a nomadic concept; previous productions have been designed to suit such makeshift “stages” as a parked car and a private home. Now they bring their highly stylized aesthetic to an office building–a pretty good-looking one. The Grain Belt Office Building, housed in the nineteenth-century Grain Belt Brewery complex, hosts Skewed Visions’ Days and Nights, an evening-length, interactive, and labyrinthine event that mixes live performance with video feeds, puppetry, and doll actors. Three distinct pieces–A Quiet Ambition, The Hidden Room, and Time for Bed–take place in their own respective corridors and board rooms, linked together by the roaming audience. 1215 Marshall St. N.E., Minneapolis; 612-201-5727; www.skewedvisions.org