After a season of through-the-roof ticket sales and critical acclaim, the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) now presents the final play of Season Eight. In true BETC style, “This” by Melissa James Gibson is a thought-provoking, heartrending, and laugh-filled examination of some of the most difficult years of our lives. “This” was a hit off Broadway in 2009 with Julianne Nichols (August: Osage County) in the starring role of
Archives for April 2014
BETC unveils season 9 lineup
The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) is proud to announce the lineup of plays for their 9th season (2014-15). In the midst of an incredible season that has already seen their audience increase by 86%, BETC is excited to unveil another slate of unique and innovative work. In Season Nine, BETC will once again present four shows at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder and the holiday hit, “The SantaLand Diaries”, at
Review of ‘And the Sun Stood Still’
I have come to expect the unusual and the entertaining from BETC, and this world-premiere work does not disappoint. It’s rare to find a show that uses a Renaissance thinker as a hero. In the first scene, we are introduced to Nicolaus Copernicus not as an astronomer, but as physician to the Bishop of Warmia, in Poland—a position he held for the five years prior to his death in
“And the Sun Stood Still” portrays a cosmic meeting of the minds
The set Tina Anderson devised for the world premiere of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s “And the Sun Stood Still” is ingenious. * * * HISTORY PLAY Three large wooden cylinders stand on the Dairy Center stage. When rotated, they either hide or reveal a setting: One houses Bishop Johannes Dantiscus’ desk. Another: a room in astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus’ home. The third shows the inventive contraption the famed
Review of ‘And the Sun Stood Still’
In his seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Thomas Kuhn dramatically changed the notion of empirical progress by showing that it was anomalistic events, not incremental improvements, that led to new paradigms in perceptions and thought. One of Kuhn’s examples was the Copernican Revolution, which offered “a promise of better, simpler, solutions that might be developed at some point in the future.” In the world premiere of