curious theatre company | celebrating a decade in denver
For Better
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a new comedy about saying iDo photos of Lisa Rosenhagen & John Arp* by Michael Ensminger |
through December 15th
Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8 pm
Sunday @ 2 pm (no show Thanksgiving- 11.22)
In the Season 7 production of BRIGHT IDEAS, playwright Eric Coble asked “How far would you go to get your kid into the best preschool?” Then, in Season 8’s THE DEAD GUY, he went further: “What would you do on national television for $1 million?”
Now, in this plugged-in world of email, text-messaging and camera phones, the playwright poses this question: “Do the bride and groom really need to be in the same country to go on a honeymoon?”
Commissioned by Curious Theatre Company in 2005, this re-dial and instant-messaging farce about technology, love and personal relationships builds to a furious climax of 21st Century needs, fears, and dreams in a world where no one keeps the same address for more than a few months, but where everyone can be found with the click of a button.
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Dee Covington, photo by Michael Ensminger
About The Show
Starring:
John Arp*
Rhonda Brown*
Ed Cord
Dee Covington
Lisa Rosenhagen
Jim Zeiger
*member of Actors' Equity
Directed by Chip Walton
Set-Michael Duran
Lights-Richard Devin
Costume-Brynn Coplan
Sound-Brian Freeland
Props-Jennifer Orell
Asst Dir-Pesha Rudnick
SM-Lisa Boehm
ASM-Paul Turley
Production Patrons: Miriam Sims, Joan & David Clark
FOR BETTER was commissioned by Curious Theatre Company with support from the National New Play Network (NNPN) and will be the first NNPN commission ever to become a Continued Life Project. This program funds three theatre partnerships for multiple productions of the same play, in a “rolling world premiere” that ensures new plays see future productions beyond their initial world premiere, and exposes the works to broader national audiences.
Curious Theatre Company’s production of FOR BETTER is the recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.
Over the past 10 seasons, Curious has produced two scripts by Eric Coble, BRIGHT IDEAS and the world premiere production of THE DEAD GUY. Curious audiences love Coble’s funny, hip and accessible writing:
“I always write to entertain myself and my friends. A look at pop culture and modern tempo intrigues me and works its way into all my stuff. That’s the nice thing about writing for theater, you can write about what’s going on around you right now, you don’t have to wait years for your project to get green lighted.”
- Eric Coble on coolcleveland.com
