(2025-02&03) Groucho Marx Meets T.S. Eliot

By Jeffrey Hatcher

T.S. Eliot played by John Middleton

Friday, Feb. 21st | 7:30 PM

Saturday, Feb. 22nd | 7:30 PM

Sunday, Feb. 23rd | 2:00 PM

Sunday, Mar. 2nd | 7:00 PM (ASL interpreted)

Wednesday, Mar. 5th | 7:30 PM

Thursday, Mar. 6th | 7:30 PM

Friday, Mar. 7th | 7:30 PM

Saturday, Mar. 8th | 7:30 PM

Sunday, Mar. 9th | 2:00 PM (post-play discussion)

Wednesday, Mar. 12th | 7:30 PM

Thursday, Mar. 13th | 7:30 PM

Friday, Mar. 14th | 7:30 PM

Saturday, Mar. 15th | 7:30 PM (post-play discussion)

ILLUSION THEATER offers pay-what-you-can tickets to our community on a sliding scale starting at $15. We encourage those who can afford $35 tickets to pay our suggested price, as your generosity will help support ILLUSION with continuing to provide our community with affordable tickets.

Seating for the show is general admission.

3754 Pleasant Ave 

Minneapolis, MN 55409 

Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot met once in 1964 over dinner in London. Groucho, who starred in Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, and You Bet Your Life, was a pen pal with T.S. Eliot, the author of The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Cocktail Party, and Murder in the Cathedral. Be a Rufus T. Firefly on the wall as they discuss poetry, vaudeville, war, wives, Gilbert and Sullivan, Shakespeare and Freud’s jokes, and their relation to the unconscious. 

In 1994 ILLUSION produced Jeffrey Hatcher’s Three Viewings, which has gone on to be produced around the country and overseas. Since that first outing with Jeffrey, ILLUSION has commissioned/produced eleven of his plays including No Strings (1996), his adaptation of Henry James’s Turn of the Screw (1998), Good N’ Plenty (2001), Murderers (2005), Mercy of a Storm (2003), Mrs. Mannerly (2008), What’s the Word For (2012), Jeffrey Hatcher’s Hamlet (2014), A Night in Olympus (2016), and Netherland (2019). In 2024 Jeffrey was named “one of the most produced playwrights in America.”