Season 23
Naughty Bits
Three story-lines are brought together through their connection to a Roman marble statue of Hercules.
Season 22
Best Town
A new play about stars, isolation, the magic of libraries, and Laura Ashley curtains.
The Death of Napoleon: A Play in Less Than Three Acts
Napoleon Bonaparte spends the last years of his life in exile on an island playing solitaire, arguing with insects, and refusing to get on his teeter-totter in this comedy by Buntport Theater.
Coyote. Badger. Rattlesnake
Written in collaboration with the incredible Ellen K. Graham, the show takes place behind-the-scenes in a museum nature diorama. Join Carroll and Glenn as they painstakingly re-create a moment in the lives of three animals. Working on this outmoded intersection of science and art, they are confronted with their own humanity. Being alive among the dead – real among the fake – can be taxing.
Season 21
Public Domain Theatre Festival
Buntport Theater joined The Catamounts and Su Teatro– in the presentation of original adaptations of public domain works in select outdoor spaces around the Boulder Public Library and around Westminster Station Park on its second and third.
♥️ Richard
Inspired by true events, Richard is a comedy about Richard III enthusiasts, Victorian undergarments, and the lying liars that make theater.
This is Buntport’s 50th collaboratively-created full-length play!
Listen to a fun interview with Buntport on Colorado Matters here!
Tommy Lee Jones Goes To Opera Alone
TIME FOR PIE
A near life-size version of Tommy Lee Jones waxes poetic about cowboy boots, his life as a movie star and his love of opera – particularly Puccini’s Turandot.
Middle Aged People Sitting in Boxes
Middle Aged People Sitting in Boxes barely needs to be described because the entire show is perfectly encapsulated in the title.
Cabaret De Profundis, or How to Sing While Ugly Crying
WEEPING INTO AN URN
Originally slated to open March 13th, 2020, this live production finally premiered October 2021!
A comedy about grief, dirty woodcuts, and one of the wonders of the world…
Season 20
Space People In Space
A short original comedy about the people on the forefront of the colonization of Mars. Riffing on current events (several international rovers landing/scheduled to land on Mars and the billionaire class getting into the space business), this silly show follows a flight of ordinary folks looking to start a new life on the red planet.
Cabaret De Profundis or How To Sing While Ugly Crying- a filmed stage production
A comedy about grief, dirty woodcuts, and one of the wonders of the world… on a screen!
Buntport Bored Post Society Society!
During Covid lockdown we decided challenge some friends and patrons to use the US postal service and create things.
The Grasshoppers
The Grasshoppers is a mini drive-in [live] theater experience (a.k.a a short play performed outdoors while the audience remains in the safety of their cars).
Season 19
“…and this is my significant bother.”
THURBER’S RELATIONSHIP STORIES
A period show based on nine short stories by the marvelous James Thurber.
Universe 92
Using real scientific experiments as a jumping off point, Universe 92 is a comedy featuring three animal behaviorists, a giant rat in a hammock, and a Roomba.
Season 18
Something is Rotten
THE SMELL IS THE SOCK
Join the oddballs George, Julius and Harold as they present their interpretation of Hamlet. Using a packed trunk, the shirts on their backs and the socks on their hands, these three men hope to bring Shakespeare to the people. Why? Well, they are in disagreement about that.
The Rembrandt Room
A dark comedy featuring one woman standing next to one masterpiece for who knows how long.
Coyote. Badger. Rattlesnake.
Season 17
Remembering A Knight To Remember
A haphazard quest disguised as play
Do you remember Buntport’s 2012 ridiculous comedy A Knight to Remember? No need to. We’re bringing it back for you. Sort of. Featuring real armor, a fake horse, and seven overhead projectors.
The Book Handlers
INTELLECTUAL NONSENSE
Do you have a large library full of beautiful but unread books? Never fear! The Book Handlers are here to make your books look worn-in and well-read. Look cultured, cultivated, literate without all the fuss of actually having to read anything. A satire inspired by a short story by Brian O’Nolan.
Edgar Allan Poe Is Dead and So Is My Cat
EVERMORE
A comedy that is unlikely to be spooky. Unless you think podcasts and Boston Market are spooky.
Season 16
The Crud
HOARDER’S DELIGHT
An absurd fairy tale about both the crud on your floor and the crud in your head.
The Zeus Problem
RE-WRITING THE AUTHOR
A dark comedy about a god and the mess he made.
Middle Aged People Sitting In Boxes
Middle Aged People Sitting in Boxes barely needs to be described because the entire show is perfectly encapsulated in the title.
season 15
Greetings from Camp Katabasis
HELL AND FAREWELL
A comedic journey to the edge of nothing, featuring the deadpan acting style of a Resusci-Annie doll.
The Rembrandt Room
A dark comedy featuring one woman standing next to one masterpiece for who knows how long.
10 Myths on the Proper Application of Beauty Products
RIDING SIDESADDLE
An adaptation of local author Miriam Suzanne’s novel Riding SideSaddle*, which is printed on 250 interchangeable index cards and is an “open source” text, meant to be added to, adapted, morphed into something new. Pretty much like a Buntport play.
Season 14
Middle Aged People Sitting in Boxes
Middle Aged People Sitting in Boxes barely needs to be described because the entire show is perfectly encapsulated in the title.
Tommy Lee Jones Goes To Opera Alone
TIME FOR PIE
A near life-size version of Tommy Lee Jones waxes poetic about cowboy boots, his life as a movie star and his love of opera – particularly Puccini’s Turandot.
Naughty Bits
HERACLES, WITHOUT A MEMBER
Three story-lines are brought together through their connection to a Roman marble statue of Hercules.
Season 13
Peggy Jo and the Desolate Nothing
A NEW KIND OF DRAG
Created in conjunction with square product theatre.
Peggy Jo Tallas started robbing banks in the 1990s, ostensibly to help pay for her mother’s medical expenses.
Jugged Rabbit Stew
THE SINGING MAGICIAN
Alec the Amazing and All-Powerful Magician and his assistant Mystical Marla have had to put their magic shows on hold because Snowball, the white rabbit that is supposed to emerge from the top hat, is depressed.
Electra Onion Eater
THAT’S A WEEPY ONE
Electra Onion Eater is a modern adaptation of Sophocles’ Electra. Murder begets murder in a classic Greek tragedy twisted into a Buntportian comedy.
Season 12
A Knight to Remember- My Quest to Gallantly Recapture the Past by Brian Colonna
HEADGEAR OF A DIFFERENT SORT
Buntport Theater’s Brian Colonna explores his childhood dreams of knighthood in this comedy about honor, love, and all the things you learned and lost.
Wake
A CORRUPTION OF THE TEMPEST
On an island enchanted by the spirit Ariel, Prospero, his daughter Miranda and their slave Caliban, await a passing ship, peopled with men from their home of Milan. Only, in Buntport’s riff on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the ship doesn’t come.
Sweet Tooth
SING AND FLOSS DAILY
A musical about what it means to curate your life down to the most grotesque details.
Season 11
The Roast Beef Situation
SAY WHAT?
A satirical clowning-based story of Carlo Delpini who was thrown into a London prison for saying the words “roast beef” onstage
Tommy Lee Jones Goes to Opera Alone
TIME FOR PIE
A near life-size version of Tommy Lee Jones waxes poetic about cowboy boots, his life as a movie star and his love of opera – particularly Puccini’s Turandot.
My Hideous Progeny
A MODERN PROMETHEUS
A fever-dream of a production that weaves through different moments of Mary Shelley’s life and work.
Season 10
< Cinderella
A WORDLESS TALE
< Cinderella (can be read as Less than Cinderella, although we wouldn’t push the issue) is Buntport’s take on the age-old fairy story.
…and this is my significant bother
THURBER’S RELATIONSHIP STORIES
A period show based on nine short stories by the marvelous James Thurber.
The 30th of Baydak
WALKING IN TURKMENISTANLAND
An original production inspired by the goings-on of present day Turkmenistan and Bohumil Hrabal’s novel Too Loud a Solitude.
Kafka on Ice
EVEN DESPAIR IS MAGICAL ON ICE
A play that is, in fact, what it sounds like: Kafka’s life and work set on ice…
Quixote
IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS
Quixote, the first show created by Buntport Theater, is a transformative action piece satirizing academic life.
Seal. Stamp. Send. Bang.
Using the post office as a central metaphor for mankind’s interconnectedness, Seal. Stamp. Send. Bang. follows four different protagonists through an “ordinary” day.
Moby Dick Unread
THAR SHE BLOWS
Four performers, one boat on wheels and a few buckets of water add up to all 135 chapters of Melville’s classic novel.
Season 9
Jugged Rabbit Stew
THE SINGING MAGICIAN
Alec the Amazing and All-Powerful Magician and his assistant Mystical Marla have had to put their magic shows on hold because Snowball, the white rabbit that is supposed to emerge from the top hat, is depressed.
The World is Mine
BEING EUGENE O’NEILL
Part 1930’s screwball comedy, part O’Neill tragedy, The World is Mine is an absurd dramedy a la’ Buntport.
Something Is Rotten
THE SMELL IS THE SOCK
Join the oddballs George, Julius and Harold as they present their interpretation of Hamlet.
Indiana, Indiana
A NOVEL ADAPTATION
An adaptation of the novel by Laird Hunt.
Nestled on a farm in the heartland, Noah Summers spends his time drifting through memories.
Season 8
The Squabble
THERE WILL BE MUD
Two fast friends cause chaos in a small village by blowing most things way out of proportion. Based on the Gogol short story.
Seal. Stamp. Send. Bang.
Using the post office as a central metaphor for mankind’s interconnectedness, Seal. Stamp. Send. Bang. follows four different protagonists through an “ordinary” day.
Anywhere But Rome
ON THE ROAD WITH OVID
Ovid, the Roman poet, is in exile. He has packed a couple of the beings he has written about: Tiresias, the blind prophet, and Io, a woman who has been turned into a cow.
Musketeer
ALL FOR ONE (LIBRARY BOOK)
In 1844, famed author Alexandre Dumas checked a book out from the Marseilles Public Library, based his novel The Three Musketeers on that book, and then never returned it.
Season 7
McGuinn & Murry
GUMSHOE HIJINKS
In the 1940’s, people smoked cigarettes, conducted witty repartee and solved crimes. Or so it sometimes seems, anyway.
Titus Andronicus: The Musical
SHAKESPEARE’S ONLY MUSICAL DRAMEDY
P.S. McGoldstein and his van-o-players take on the Bard’s bloodiest play!
Vote for Uncle Marty
TOPSY-TURVY POLITICAL COMEDY
A political satire in an upside-down world about the right man for the job, depending on what the job is.
Season 6
Moby Dick Unread
THAR SHE BLOWS
Four performers, one boat on wheels and a few buckets of water add up to all 135 chapters of Melville’s classic novel.
Winter In Graupel Bay
It’s winter solstice in the small town of Graupel Bay (inexplicably located nowhere near a body of water).
Something Is Rotten
THE SMELL IS THE SOCK
Join the oddballs George, Julius and Harold as they present their interpretation of Hamlet.
Season 5
A Synopsis Of Butchery
A MOTHER’S ANGUISH
A black comedy sparked by an unusual crisis of faith. An intimate look at what we can believe, if anything.
Realism: The Mythical Brontosaurus
WALK WITH(OUT) THE DINOSAUR
A black comedy sparked by an unusual crisis of faith. An intimate look at what we can believe.
Horror: The Transformation
An adaptation of Charles Brockden Brown’s classic novel Weiland or The Transformation.
Season 4
Titus Andronicus: The Musical!
SHAKESPEARE’S ONLY MUSICAL DRAMEDY
P.S. McGoldstein and his van-o-players take on the Bard’s bloodiest play!
Kafka On Ice
EVEN DESPAIR IS MAGICAL ON ICE
A play that is, in fact, what it sounds like: Kafka’s life and work set on ice…
MacBlank
MACBETH IS A CURSED PLAY
A mockumentary-style production detailing an attempt at mounting Shakespeare’s cursed play.
Season 3
Word-Horde: an adaptation of the Cliffnotes of Beowulf
PAPER MONSTERS
Word-Horde needs no particular explanation. It is a goofy dramatization of the Cliffnotes of Beowulf.
…and this is my significant bother
THURBER’S RELATIONSHIP STORIES
A period show based on nine short stories by the marvelous James Thurber.
McGuinn & Murry
GUMSHOE HIJINKS
In the 1940’s, people smoked cigarettes, conducted witty repartee and solved crimes. Or so it sometimes seems, anyway.
Idiot Box
TV OR NOT TV
A series of sketch comedy, centered around our love/hate relationship with television.
< Cinderella
A WORDLESS TALE
< Cinderella (can be read as Less than Cinderella, although we wouldn’t push the issue) is Buntport’s take on the age-old fairy story.
Elevator
JUST A SHORT TRIP
Elevator is a one-act that is comprised entirely of one elevator ride – just an average two minute ride to the thirtieth floor of an office building on what very well could be a perfectly normal day of work.
Season 2
The 30th of Baydak
WALKING IN TURKMENISTANLAND
An original production inspired by the goings-on of present day Turkmenistan and Bohumil Hrabal’s novel Too Loud a Solitude.
Titus Andronicus: The Musical!
SHAKESPEARE’S ONLY MUSICAL DRAMEDY
P.S. McGoldstein and his van-o-players take on the Bard’s bloodiest play!
The Odyssey: A Walking Tour
The Odyssey: A Walking Tour was just that. The audience was split into two and led around the space on simultaneous tours, both of which chronicled different adventures on Odysseus’ long journey home.
Season 1
Titus Andronicus: The musical!
SHAKESPEARE’S ONLY MUSICAL DRAMEDY
P.S. McGoldstein and his van-o-players take on the Bard’s bloodiest play!
Donner: a documentary
MEMOIRS OF THE FIFTH REINDEER
A documentary-style dark comedy about the reindeer Donner (neé Donder) and his battle with the corporate world of North Pole Inc.
Ward #6
An adaptation of Chekhov’s short story, Ward #6 is a drama about two intersecting lives.
Fin
IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
The world has been inexplainably destroyed. Three friends are left with only one mix tape, a game of Scrabble™ and each other.
Word-Horde: an adaptation of the Cliffnotes of Beowulf
PAPER MONSTERS
Word-Horde needs no particular explanation. It is a goofy dramatization of the Cliffnotes of Beowulf.
…and this is my significant bother
THURBER’S RELATIONSHIP STORIES
A period show based on nine short stories by the marvelous James Thurber.
Quixote
IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS
Quixote, the first show created by Buntport Theater, is a transformative action piece satirizing academic life.