Buntport Theater

A woman and three men in 1800s funeral attire are looking forward in front of a red curtain.

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A MOTHER’S ANGUISH

A black comedy sparked by an unusual crisis of faith. An intimate look at what we can believe, if anything.

Buntport takes you back to the late 1800’s and into the world of Eleanor Bishop, a failed actress and semi-successful medium, as she detailed the death of her son, famed mentalist Washington Irving Bishop.

Strange circumstances surround his life, career and death. Prone to fits of extreme catalepsy, he was known to fall into death-like trances for extended periods. During one such fit, doctors decided to see if there was anything unusual about this performer’s brain, thereby killing him during his own autopsy. You could have come heard the story as related and performed by his dramatic and over-wrought mother and the actors that she has convinced to help…probably by promise of wages that they are unlikely to see.