Gruesome Playground Injuries
We meet eight-year-olds Kayleen and Doug in the nurse’s office of their elementary school. She has a stomachache and a penchant for “bad thoughts”, he has a head injury from riding his bike off the roof of the school. The powerful connection between these two people will endure many twists and turns with the accompanying bumps and bruises over the next three decades of their lives. To tell their story Rajiv Joseph (ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER) has crafted a dark and beautiful gem of a play about love, friendship, pain and healing.
5X5 Reading Series
Children's Reading Series
Music Series: Bill Coffey & Loudon Wainwright III
Off The Record
The hit of the 2011 5X5 Reading Series makes it’s way to full production in 2012. The playwright, Lynn Allison, is known primarily for her work as an actor at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and of course here at BCT (SOUVENIR, LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING, ELEEMOSYNARY). Her first effort as a writer, however, has proven to be charged with just as much excitement. In it a handsome, senior member of the United States Senate sits at a table in a cinderblock room across from the undercover cop he met in the airport bathroom. There is a tape recorder on the table and the rest is . . . not at all what you expect.
Questions My Mother Can't Answer
The 11|12 Season will be capped off by the second add-on production. New York Innovative Theatre Award-winning writer/performer Andrea Caban is back with her sold-out 2010 FringeNYC hit. Much of the play was written in Boise during BCT’s production of THE PAVILION in which Andrea starred as the all-knowing, all-powerful narrator. In QUESTIONS MY MOTHER CAN’T ANSWER Andrea returns to mortality and herself on a mind-body-soul healing mission after being hit by a New York City cab. She interviews eight “women-of-a-certain-age” including a sexy Moroccan ballroom dancer, a donations-only prostitute, and her Aunt Shirley. Hoping to redefine “navigating life” and to interpret the ticks of her biological clock, Andrea looks to these women for guidance and finds inspiration, laughter and hope.
