Buntport Theater

A group of people are crowded into a bathroom. A band with instruments sits in the bath tub. Two people, seemingly entwined, attempt to brush their teeth in the foreground.

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.

Following a group of friends that resist order, category and completion, this play weaves myth and storytelling with every day rituals. It is about people deeply in love, suffering loss, celebrating strangeness, all while they pluck their eyebrows. It is about the Greek myth of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, who are merged into “one being of both sexes” and about what we see when we look in the mirror. Oh, and the whole thing is  jammed in a little bathroom, complete with a three-piece band squeezed into the tub.

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