past shows – Page 2 – Buntport Theater

Two people are standing, knees bent in action. The woman is angrily talking, the man looks confused and surprised. They are standing a dry prairie scene, where a taxidermied badger and rattlesnake are facing off. The backdrop is a painted scene with distant mountains.

Coyote. Badger. Rattlesnake.

This new comedy looks behind-the-scenes of 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.

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Close up of a page in a book. Underlined in the book is part of a sentence that says “least it was peaceful: regular, ordered, and…”. In the margins next to the underlined sentence someone wrote in capital letters, “ explanation point, question mark WHAT EVER”.A woman dressed in an apron and wearing a hat is looking up at the camera and holding a book open with her right hand. She looks a little disappointed with what has been written in the margins of the book.

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.

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A lady wearing jeans and a sweatshirt hoodie that says “Property of Lasagna” with a picture of Garfield on it. She looks upset. Next to her is hole that had been dug into the dirt and a man is down on one knee trying to explain something to her.

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.

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A broken plastic rocking horse sits on a hardwood floor. It has two discarded, broken baby dolls around it.

The Crud

HOARDER’S DELIGHT

An absurd fairy tale about both the crud on your floor and the crud in your head. (more…)

an older bearded man in a bright fuchsia suit looks sternly at the camera. He is surrounded by darkness and has a lightning bolt lapel pin.

The Zeus Problem

RE-WRITING THE AUTHOR

A dark comedy about a god and the mess he made.

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Two people talk to each other from inside plexiglass boxes. On the left is a man sitting crosslegged in a short, cluttered box. On the right is a woman sitting on a stool in a narrow box. Above is an empty clothing line.

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. (more…)

A woman in full camp counselor regalia stands posed in front of a fake river made of blue bubble pop. Behind her two male campers stand holding one another. A Resusci Annie sits alone in a camp chair to the left.

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. (more…)

A female art museum security guard sits on an upholstered bench in front of a life size nude painting of Danae (the mother of Perseus) by Rembrandt. She’s speaking out and gesturing back to the painting.

The Rembrandt Room

A dark comedy featuring one woman standing next to one masterpiece for who knows how long. (more…)

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. (more…)

Four large plexiglass boxes are next to each other. In the closest one, a man sits cross-legged looking through a small cardboard box. He is confused. There is a person in each box in the distance.

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. (more…)