Not for Everybody
Join us for our alternate series, featuring plays that are a bit edgier than our MainStage shows. Stay after the show for a talkback with the director, actors, and sometimes even the playwright!
The 2010 Intern Project
The Red Box
By Caitlin Prillaman
Directed by Elizabeth Dowd
June 9-12, 2010 at 7:30PM, June 13, 2010 at 3PM
Location: Alvina Krause Theatre, 226 Center Street, Downtown Bloomsburg
$10/general admission $5/BU with valid ID
You've gotten to know our 2009-2010 acting interns Jackie and Keirnan from their performances in The Playboy of the Western World and Merry Christmas, George Bailey, but nothing compares to see them in their own, hand-picked challenging project at the conclusion of their internship. In the tradition of past projects Let’s Play Two, Three Days of Rain, Far Away, and Old Times, it’s sure to be impressive. Join us for this original play featuring our two Ensemble interns!
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Thanks for making The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later a huge success!
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Epilogue
By Moises Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris, and Stephen Belber
A reader's theatre version directed by Laurie McCants
Monday October 12, 2009 at Alvina Krause Theatre
8:00PM simulcast introduction by Moises Kaufman
$10/general admission $5/BU with valid ID
Download the Audience Guide Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4
On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was murdered in Laramie, Wyoming. Shortly afterwards, members of the Tectonic Theater Project interviewed residents of Laramie, and assembled the interviews into the acclaimed documentary play The Laramie Project (which BTE produced in 2003). On the tenth anniversary of Shepard's murder, the Tectonic returned to Laramie and again interviewed citizens (including Matthew's mother, and his murderer who is serving two consecutive life sentences) for a follow-up epilogue The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, An Epilogue. BTE is among over 120 international theatres in a one-night only simultaneous worldwide reading of the new play. We're going to make history that night, and we invite you to help us do it!
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later Cast, Director & Producer
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Thanks to everyone who attended the Hamlet mini-fest!
The Hamlet Mini-Fest
Two reader's theatre versions of Hamlet
February 27, 2010 at Alvina Krause Theatre
$10/general admission to both $5/to one $5 BU with valid ID
The 1603 "Bad" Quarto 12:00PM
Fratricide Punished 3:00PM
Shakespeare never supervised the publication of his plays, nor was there copyright protection in Elizabethan days, so with Hamlet there's a delicious variety of oddball versions. We're presenting two of them, in reader's theatre performances, on the same day as our fully-performed mainstage Hamlet! This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime event for Shakespeare lovers or fans of quirky plays (or both!)
See both readings for one low price of $10, or just one for $5.
($10.00 tickets available online.)
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Me, Miss Krause and Joan
A one woman show written and performed by
Martha Kemper
Directed by William Roudebush
March 20, 2010 at Alvina Krause Theatre
7:30PM One performance only!
$10/general admission $5/BU with valid ID
60 minutes followed by a talkback
A "smartly written, emotionally powerful and spiritually insightful play about passion and perseverance. A must-see for anyone who loves theater." - Mark Cofta, Philadelphia City Paper
How does an actor create a character? For Martha Kemper, a founding member of BTE, her creation of Joan of Arc had a pivotal inspiration during the summer of 1979 when she was acting in BTE's production of Under MilkWood, Dylan Thomas's evocation of desire and loss in a small Welsh town. Walking home down a Bloomsburg back-street after a performance, Martha has a life-threatening encounter with a stranger, which she reveals as part of her secret and hidden homework for creating the fascinating character of Joan. Equally fascinating is the legendary acting teacher Alvina Krause, interwoven-with others from Martha's life-into episodes from the life of Joan. In Me, Miss Krause and Joan, Martha, like Joan, joyously discovers that in Life there are things so true and so eternal that no violence can kill them.
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