Buntport one-woman show focuses on museum guard Soon she’s off on a spiel about the painting. The painter Rembrandt’s wife, Saskia, was the model, but the face is that of Geertje, Rembrandt’s lover, hired to care for the couple’s baby son Titus. She stayed on after Saskia died while Titus was still very small and beyond. (The painter couldn’t remarry if he wanted to inherit Saskia’s money.)Lights go up on a large painting of a reclining nude and a uniformed museum guard, played by the versatile and always engaging Erin Rollman of Buntport Theater’s collaborative quintet of actors, writers and directors, who create all the company’s original material.

“Please stay two feet away from the paintings at all times …”

The painting (1836) is of Danaë, the mother of Perseus, we are told. She is reaching up toward Zeus, who will impregnate her with a shower of golden specks … A shadowy figure lurking outside the entrance to the room is a man with a fist full of paintbrushes ‐ one of Rembrandt’s numerous self-portraits.

“The bathrooms are off the stairs to the left …”

Rollman continues to combine comedy and flashes of humor for about 90 minutes as she lectures about history ‐ Katherine the Great owned the painting and we learn tidbits about the legendary Russian monarch as well as the information that a man had slashed the painting with a knife at one point and it took 12 years to repair it.

Every so often a scratchy radio sputters to life with a message to the guard ‐ or her phone rings …

But for almost 90 minutes, this inventive actress entertains the audience with a mix of mythology, history and goofiness.

Buntport fans and those looking for something new and different will want to visit the “Rembrandt Room” soon.

-Sonya Ellingboe April 15, 2016, Littletonindependent.net