Verge Theater is thrilled to announce the inaugural New Works Fest featuring staged compositions by a talented roster of locals at the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture. Performances will be held Thursday through Saturday, May 9th–11th.
This highly anticipated weekend features 13 new playwrights sharing their original works with the Bozeman community, some for the first time ever. Over the course of three days, audiences will have the incredible opportunity to be a part of the creative process simply by being in the room to witness these works brought to life. No two works are the same, with a wide variety of genres, subject matter and staging.
Works will include Unanswered & Look Both Ways by Alex Miniclier and Quietus by Gus Yeager on Thursday. Ronald Judkins’ Great Pop Sounds into the Night and In the Coolness of the Garden by Aaron Schuerr follow on Friday. The closing day of performances, Saturday will see Based on a Tran Story by Nadia Mell, Convection by Emily Rasmuss, Barbies by Kate Britton, Michael Earl Craig: A Reading by Dalton Brink and Newlyweds from Robert Benjamin.
Headlining the playwright festival is Certain Death & Other Considerations from writer-director Eliza Frakes and co-directer Emma Pierce Rempel. Performances will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 10th and 11th, at 8:30pm each night.
The world will end in exactly 80 years – just enough time to have a baby! Frakes and Rempel also star in the play devised as a dark comedy that follows two couples (and a surrogate) as they prepare to welcome new life into a dying world. With doomsday waiting just outside of their natural lifespan, certain death is close enough to inform every decision, but far enough away to ignore in a pinch. Certain Death & Other Considerations is a story for the post-pandemic, pre-climate crisis generation.
Tickets for the New Works Fest are available for purchase now. Certain Death admission sold separately. Visit www.vergetheater.com for reservations and further information about educational opportunities for aspiring thespians. •
