FEED: Kids
Spirits to Enforce
By Mickle Maher
Direction by Amanda Berg Wilson
At The Dairy Arts Center, Boulder
October 3 – October 17, 2015
Community Meal Direction by Lauren Shepard
Costume Design by Annabel Reader
Lighting Design by Ryan Wentworth
Production by McPherson Horle
Set Design by M. Curtis Grittner
Stage Management by Ashley Beach
Featuring: Rebecca Brown Adelman, Joan Bruemmer-Holden, Stephen Geering, Meridith C. Grundei, Susan Harrison, Ben Hilzer, Verl Hite, Elgin Kelley, Laura Loungue Trina Magness, Jason Maxwell, and Joe Von Bokern.
The Catamounts joyfully reunite with Mickle Maher, author of their 2014 hit production There Is A Happiness That Morning Is.
Swapping randy college lecturers on William Blake for telemarketing superheroes, Spirits to Enforce once again combines Maher’s keen absurdist sense of humor with hyper-literate and heartfelt storytelling.
Spirits opens in what appears to be a mundane call center where a dozen telemarketers work the phones. We realize soon, however, that this is no ordinary office space, but the inside of “a dripping, creaking, rusted submarine.”
And those temps? They’re the Fathom Town Enforcers—superheroes in disguise trying to raise money to mount a production of Shakespeare’s beloved “metaphysical revenge comedy,” The Tempest.
Infusing elements of Shakespeare and comic book lore, this genre-bending play is a glorious celebration of the power of art to triumph over evil. A “beguiling…nimble, surreal comedy…with smarts and a puckish sense of the absurd.” Cleveland Plain Dealer.
FEED: Illuminate
Futura
By Jordan Harrison
Direction by Meridith Grundei
At The Nomad Playhouse, Boulder
April 8 – April 17, 2016
Featuring Ami Dayan, David French, Anne Sandoe, and Hallie ‘hk’ Schwartz
FUTURA, by Pulitzer Prize finalist and “Orange Is The New Black” writer Jordan Harrison, follows a rogue professor who has set out to avenge her missing husband–and the lost art of ink on paper–by conducting a dangerous lesson on typography. When the professor’s lecture jumps the rails, we peer into a near future where desperate people search for the tangible in an ever more virtual age. F. Kathleen Foley of LA Times dubbed Futura that rare breed, a ripping good yarn with plenty of intellectual heft.”
FEED: Grind