past shows – Page 3 – Buntport Theater

A life-size puppet of Tommy Lee Jones sits at a diner table that is surrounded by a yellow and white checkered floor surrounded by darkness. A waitress stands next to the table as if she is about to take his order.

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.

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Four people stand on a pink carpet. Their bodies are pixelated out so only their faces and bare or socked feet are showing.

Naughty Bits

HERACLES, WITHOUT A MEMBER

Three story-lines are brought together through their connection to a Roman marble statue of Hercules. (more…)

Four motley people squeeze their faces into the frame. Behind them is a road sign for Guaranty Bank

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. (more…)

A large rabbit wearing a ratty robe and bunny slippers slumps in a lazy boy recliner. The floor is covered in newspaper.

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. (more…)

A woman with a large bouffant hairdo and a leopard-print caftan holds a bottle and glass. Behind her, a man with a mustached stands in front of a slatted wooden door with a family portrait hanging above.

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. (more…)

Two women, and a man dressed in a suit of armor poise for a selfie. One of the woman is wearing a head lamp and making the devil horns rock-and-roll sign with her hands.

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. (more…)

A man dressed in rags and tied with thick rope to a platform is comforted by a man carrying a tape recorder who is dressed for summer holiday.

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. (more…)

A woman strikes a strong pose, arms akimbo, center stage. The room she stands in is entirely red and decorated with her portraits.

Sweet Tooth

SING AND FLOSS DAILY

A musical about what it means to curate your life down to the most grotesque details.

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Five people dressed as clowns with bald caps and multi-patterned clothes look into the camera inquisitively.

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

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The life-size puppet of Tommy Lee Jones is sitting at a diner table. His left hand, made of wood, is held to his chest and his right arm is resting on the diner table.

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.

(more…)