As fish in water, we are often unaware of other universes and states of consciousness beyond our own. This is especially true when we are grieving. In the regional premiere of This, by Melissa James Gibson, Jane (Jessica Robblee), a single mother who lost her husband almost a year before, is hanging out with her longtime friends, Tom (Michael Morgan), Merrell (Ghandia Johnson), and Alan (Josh Hartwell), and a newcomer
BETC’s regional premiere of off-Broadway hit ‘This’
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
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
Dava Sobel’s ‘And the Sun Stood Still’ shines at BETC
The shining strength of Dava Sobel’s And the Sun Stood Still — which is currently receiving its world premiere in Boulder — is that, at a time when the sciences have been so muddied by sloppy thinking, willful ignorance and financial pressure, it provides insight into the scientific process and eloquently communicates the sheer beauty of astronomy. Nicolaus Copernicus is living in the Bishopric of Varmia, in what was
Theatre Colorado reviews: And the Sun Stood Still
Hypothetical question: how would you react to scientific proof that everything on earth is simply an elaborate illusion? Humans, it turns out, are simply a foggy consciousness with no actual physical presence. Rather, we have created a fantasy “world” to live in. Science fiction? Perhaps. Absurd? Definitely. Most of us would completely reject such a preposterous notion of our world. That is precisely the situation the
Boulder theater premiering new play from writer Dava Sobel
Science writer Dava Sobel is known all over the world for her lyrical books, especially “Longitude” and “Galileo’s Daughter.” They’re praised for bringing humanity and heart to the exploration of science. Now, the Pulitzer-nominated Sobel has written her first play. “And the Sun Stood Still” is about Nicolaus Copernicus and the struggle he faced deciding whether to go public with his theory that the earth revolved around the sun –
Dava Sobel’s Copernicus takes the stage in Boulder
In 1995 Dava Sobel introduced readers to one John Harrison with her graceful and engrossing history, ” Longitude, The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time.” The gifted teller of scientific tales then plunged us into a a saga of faith and science with “Galileo’s Daughter.” In 2011, she published “A More Perfect Heaven: How Coprenicus Revolutionized the Cosmos.” None
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