PRESENTS
the Local Lab staged reading of
Great bends
written by
Sarah Léo Powers
Great Bends is presented in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance at CU as part of our playwright mentorship program.
directed by
Cecilia J. Pang
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Thursday, April 27 | 7:30PM MT
Dairy Arts Center | Boulder, CO
Hey, you should join the conversation!
There will be a 20-minute conversation facilitated by Local Lab Co-Director Betty Hart directly following the reading.
SYNOPSIS
The play explores the profound grief of lives lost and relationships strengthened in the face of climate change. Throughout one night in Great Bend County, Kansas, relationships are tested through debates regarding career choices, childbearing, and ethics, in preparation for an unpredictable future. In this dystopian future not too unlike our own, sacrifice, love, and the bends we take for one another may be what saves us all.
CREATIVE TEAM
Tap each pic to meet the artists!
Land Acknowledgement
Every community owes its existence and vitality to generations from around the world that contributed their hopes, dreams and energy to making the history that led to this moment. Some of the people from the history of this spot were brought here against their will, some were drawn to leave their distant homes in hope of a better life and some have lived on this land for more generations than can be counted. Truth and acknowledgment are critical to building mutual respect and connection across all barriers of heritage and difference. We begin this effort to acknowledge what has been buried by honoring the truth.
Local Theater Company acknowledges, with deep respect, that we are located on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations and Peoples. We pay respect to their elders both past and present. We ask that you consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration and settlement that bring us here today.
Appearing through an Agreement between Local Theater Company and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
^denotes member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)
