A Case for the Existence of God
by Samuel D. Hunter
March 5-22, 2025
Directed by BCT’s own Producing Artistic Director, Benjamin Burdick
~90 minutes with no intermission
Ryan, a yogurt plant worker looking to buy a plot of land that belonged to his family decades ago, meets with Keith, a mortgage broker in Twin Falls, Idaho. What starts as a discussion on loans opens up a conversation about the chokehold of financial insecurity and eventually develops into a bond over the precariousness of parenthood. With humor, empathy, and wrenching honesty, Hunter commingles two lives and deftly bridges their disparate experiences.
Cast:
Jake Atkinson* (Ryan)
Ian Duff* (Keith)
Production and Design Team:
Director – Benjamin Burdick
Stage Manager – Elena Maddy
Technical Director – Nicholas Jules Hewitt
Scenic Designer – Erin Davidson
Sound Designer – Drew Dalzell
Lighting Designer – Julien V. Elstob
Costume Designer – Chanté Thornton Hamann
Props – Lily Kennedy
Master Electrician – Matthew Wagner
Scenic Charge – Amandalynn Lovewell
Assistant Stage Manager – Tris Berg
Sound Engineer – Ashlyn Clark
*Member of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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About the Playwright
Samuel D. Hunter was born and raised in Moscow, Idaho, and lives in New York City. He is best known for A Bright New Boise (Obie Award for playwriting, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), and The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play). BCT produced the Co-World Premiere of Norway in our 10|11 season with the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, commissioned and produced the World Premiere of A Permanent Image the following season, and Lewiston/Clarkston (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play) for our 18|19 season.
His plays have been developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, PlayPenn, Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Lark Playwrights Workshop, Juilliard, LAByrinth, Rattlestick, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, Idaho, 24Seven Lab and elsewhere. Internationally, his work has been translated into Spanish and presented in Mexico City and Monterrey, and he has worked in the West Bank with Ashtar Theatre of Ramallah and Ayyam al-Masrah of Hebron. At Ashtar, he co-wrote The Era of Whales which was performed in Ramallah and Istanbul. He is a member of New Dramatists and a current Resident Playwright at the Signature Theater in New York.
He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard. He is also the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. He has also been a guest lecturer at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Fordham University, and other universities.
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Reviews:
“Good theater that challenges us to rethink our concept of family and social obligation.” –LA TIMES
“A funny, tender and endearing play… bring tissues but expect to laugh.” –THE TIMES UK
“Quite simply a triumph… a piece you cannot afford to miss.” –THEATREWEEKLY
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Wed, Mar 5 – Fri, Mar 7, 2025
Wed, Mar 5, and Wed, Mar 19, 2025
5:30-6:30 pm, Thu, Mar 6, 2025
Sat, Mar 8, 2025
Wed, Mar 12, 2025
2 PM, Sat, Mar 15, and 7 PM, Fri, Mar 21, 2025
Sat, Mar 22, 2025
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Wed, Thur, Fri, & Sat – 7:00 pm
Saturday Matinee – 2:00 pm
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