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MPR’s Toni Randolph explores The Illusion Theater’s production, Undesirable Elements: Ten Years Later. The downtown Minneapolis theater explores the mixed reception immigrants and other minorities have received upon arriving to the U.S.

Undesirable Elements is a journey through history. It starts in the 1830s and makes its way to the present day, highlighting events along the way that have had an impact on the seven members of the cast. The cast isn't made up of fictional characters played by actors. These are real people, telling their own stories. There's a Russian Jew, a Puerto Rican, an Ojibwe woman and an African American, a Hmong woman, a Filipino and an American of Chinese descent. The latter is Ping Chong, an award-winning theater director and choreographer who created the show.