FRIDAY PICK | Human Combat Chess: En garde, Fischer!

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet
June 28, 2012

Courtesy Six Elements Theatre

If Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone whetted your appetite for deadly life-size games of chess, you may want to consider going to church—both to repent for your bloodlust and to indulge it. From June 22-30, Six Elements Theatre will be staging choreographed games of human chess at University Baptist Church, complete with concessions and play-by-play commentary. If there was ever a setting where Bob Dylan's "Only a Pawn in Their Game" could be played as a Jock Jam, this is it.

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©2012 Jay Gabler

Human Combat Chess Show

06/22/2012 (All day) - 06/30/2012 (All day)

After last year’s highly successful production, Human Combat Chess returns with even more swordplay and sporting energy.  The brain-child of company member Mike Lubke, Human Combat

University Baptist Church

1219 University Ave. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55414
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