"Third"

This past Thursday night Sam took my friend, Kelly (who stayed with me for a couple nights when she was on break from St. Ben's), and I to the Guthrie. He graced us with the kindness of his free tickets and we ended up seeing a performance called "Third." "Third" was about a 50's-something female professor who taught at an East Coast Ivy League school. In the world of academia, this woman was a "rock star."
Upon starting a new year, the professor went through many inner-struggles... The play was written a bit after 9/11, so it really illustrated her frustrations with the state of the world, with her home life, and with a specific new male student of hers.
This male student was at the professor's ivy league school on a wrestling scholarship. Famous for being a defier of stereotypes and generalizing, the professor did exactly the reverse to "Third" (the nickname of the wrestler).
The plot really gets to the audience and reaches it in a very personal way... maybe because many can truly relate to the personable story.

Get to the Guthrie and see it!
--The main young man is a student from the U of M!