Frank Theatre introduced #TCTheater to Polish-American playwright Martyna Majok's work with their excellent production of
Ironbound in 2024 (
a nominee for a Twin Cities Theater Bloggers Award for best play), followed by
Sanctuary City earlier this year, which
Theatre in the Round also produced a few months later. Now, thanks to
Full Circle Theater, we finally get to see her 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning play
Cost of Living. All of her plays (at least those I've seen) deal with the immigrant experience, classism, the struggles of average Americans, and the failure of the American Dream.
Cost of Living does this through the stories of two disabled characters and their caregivers, with a raw and unflinching look at the lives that they lead. The good news is Full Circle's production, in the intimate 825 Arts on University in St. Paul, is excellent; the bad news is they only have eight performances (after a week of community performances), half of which are over. So if you would like to see the excellent regional premiere of this funny, moving, surprising, thought-provoking play -
act fast!
