Festival 2024 Show Descriptions
Performance #1
Evergreen Players
An Evening of Scott Gibson by Scott Gibson
Play #1 – “Evie and Frannie Take a Detour”
Evie and Frannie Takes a Detour follows two women who are on their way to attend a show when escaped convict, Grace, jumps into the back seat of their car and instructs them to drive her to her house...where she plans to exact revenge on her husband.
Play #2 – “Last Chosen”
Troubled couple, Jane and Glen, have gone to meet with a therapist to discuss their failed relationship. Walter, a thoroughly disorganized and perhaps inept therapist, rushes in to meet with them and to dispense unhelpful advice.
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Performance #2
Funky Little Theatre
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by John Minigan
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​A haunting and humorous new one-man show based on Washington Irving's timeless ghost story. Colorado actor Solomon Abell plays Irving telling the beloved tale as well as all of its unique characters that inhabit the small town of Sleepy Hollow.
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Performance #3
Platte Valley Players
The Tomato Plant Girl by Wesley Middleton
The Tomato Plant Girl by Wesley Middleton is a powerful exploration of friendship that delights young audiences with its sharp dialogue, physical action and playful, high-energy conflict. Little Girl is the new kid in Heretown. Good thing she's got her Bossy Best Friend! The girls share a garden where time moves to the rhythm of Bossy's commands until the day Little Girl can no longer obey. Bossy has forbidden Little Girl to touch her precious tomato plant. But if the plant doesn't get watered soon, it will die. When Bossy leaves to visit her grandma, Little Girl uproots the plant in a valiant rescue, and a messy girl-creature springs out of the earth, spitting up dirt and crying red tears. Soon, Little Girl is playing crazy new games with Tomato Plant Girl and
teaching her to say "please." Maybe Little Girl has found a new Best Friend. But what will they do when Bossy returns? And what if Tomato Plant Girl won't stay? When her friendships collide and Little Girl has to choose, she discovers the power of making up her own rules.
Middleton's narrative skillfully intertwines humor, poignant moments, and the profound connections between nature and the human spirit. "The Tomato Plant Girl" is a touching exploration of resilience, friendship, and the power of forging one's path amidst life's challenges. Although The Tomato Plant Girl is a play for young audiences, it is a play that will resonate with audiences of every age.
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Performance #4
Sopris Theatre Company
Natural Shocks by Lauren Gunderson
Angela is trapped in her basement, waiting out an approaching tornado. Though a self-proclaimed unreliable narrator, she begins to reflect on a lifetime of trauma, illuminating the truth behind her endangerment. Based on Hamlet’s famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy, NATURAL SHOCKS is a damning condemnation of violence, abuse, and firearms in America.
WARNING: This play deals with domestic abuse and gun violence and may be difficult material for some audiences.
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