I always thought of myself as a total artist, as both a visual artist and a movement expert, and I never wanted the boundaries of disciplines to get in my way. I tended to really push the boundaries…
News & Reviews
Below are critical reviews and news stories featuring Marcela and her productions.
Director Marcela Lorca has a sure hand for narratives with a foundation in myth and fable, and turning them into something that feels authentically like real life.
Review: Thunder Knocking on the Door, Talkin' Broadway, March 8, 2020
“What I’m discovering is that there is so much humanity and so many questions about internal transformation in the show,” Lorca said. “Everyone has their own crossroads when they butt up against the hardest things.”
Article: ‘Thunder Knocking on the Door’ returns to the Twin Cities two decades after bowing at Guthrie, StarTribute, March 3, 2020
Lorca’s production is well balanced, never veering off into too much schtick meant to garner laughs just for the sake of laughs. The ensemble of players from top to bottom responds to the nuances in their speeches by quickly turning the emotional weight of a scene, effortlessly going from heavy to light, from sunny to […]
Review: A Winter’s Tale: something reeks of tyranny, HowWasTheShow?, October 15, 2019
Ten Thousand Things does Shakespeare like no one else, making it accessible and understandable and relatable, whether you’re familiar with the play or it’s your first time (or you just have a really bad memory).
Review: “The Winter’s Tale” by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book, Cherry and Spoon, October 11, 2019
This “Winter’s Tale” is something that you feel, and that touches you, in Lorca’s visceral vision, even as it evokes the fractious heterogeneous mix of rumors and hunches that show up alongside sophisticated technology in 21st-century America.
Review: Messy, minimalist ‘Winter’s Tale’ resonates with the times, StarTribune, October 11, 2019
Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation affiliated with Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), has chosen Ten Thousand Things Artistic Director Marcela Lorca for its prestigious 2019 Zelda Fichandler Award.
Marcela Lorca Receives Prestigious Zelda Fichandler Award, Ten Thousand Things, October 10, 2019
I can’t blame the audience at Orchestra Hall for immediately rising to its feet and showering the performers with a 10-minute standing ovation. It deserved even longer.
Review: A powerful Passion closes Minnesota Orchestra’s Latin Sommerfest, Pioneer Press, August 3, 2019
Fueled by a formidable battery of percussion instruments, it hummed and shrieked and babbled with the chaotic energies of life itself — one moment meltingly tender, the next lacerated with violent intentions.
Review: Minnesota Orchestra’s passionate performance of Golijov masterpiece closes Sommerfest, Star Tribune, August 3, 2019
It completes director Marcela Lorca’s first season at the helm of Ten Thousand Things and you can feel throughout that Lorca is an accomplished choreographer, for each movement seems interconnected and flowing toward a mutually agreed upon point. Read the full review at TwinCities.com