Verge Theater has returned with a new season of hilarious stage entertainment! Here’s a look at what’s coming up in October!
Directed by Stephanie Campbell, Jane Martin’s “Talking With” is a play composed of eleven ten-minute monologues, each featuring a different woman who talks about her life. The play includes the pieces, “Fifteen Minutes,” “Scraps,” “Clear Glass Marbles,” “Audition,” “Rodeo,” “Twirler,” “Lamps,” “Handler,” “Dragons,” “French Fries,” and “Marks.”
The play premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York in 1982 and has been performed around the world. The play deals with the personal ordeals of each of the female characters. Many of them are very touching—a few are even intensely emotional. However, there is also the very comical. Even the funny ones, however, have an underlying depth to them that gives a sensitive insight into each of the characters involved.
The play will be performed by a collection of Bozeman’s most recognizable and talented actors, so you won’t want to miss them bringing these diverse stories to life on the Verge stage. Talking With will run Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, October 13th–22nd. All shows begin promptly at 8pm.
Recover from your weekend with Improv Comedy! Join in as the Verge players offer up a Monday Night sacrifice of the most daring, death defying type of live theater there is: Improv! They call it Improv on the Verge! Improv Monday Nights feature The Bozeman Improverts who will beguile you with their laser-like wits, sharp tongues, and obnoxiously large heads. These masterful, main stage players improvise sketches built around audience suggestions, play improv games similar to those you see on Who’s Line Is It Anyway?, and perform long form improv that is basically making up short plays on the spot. You have to experience this to believe it! It’s a mere $7 to get in and laugh like hell at their team of S.W.A.T. trained Improv Players. (S.W.A.T. = SouthWest Alternative Theater). Upcoming shows fall on October 3rd and 24th beginning at 7pm.
Jonathan Graham’s “The Boy Who Loved Monsters and the Girl Who Loved Peas” will be featured on the family stage this fall. Left alone at the dinner table to finish the remains of his meal (a single, enormous pea), 8-year-old Evan wishes he had a real live monster to eat his peas and play with him. When a real live monster actually arrives, life is turned upside down for Evan and his family in this hilarious and heartfelt comedy. The monster, named Pea, immediately befriends Evan and his little sister, Sue, but the children have to keep talking the monster out of eating their parents! What could possibly go wrong with this scenario? Well, parents bring your kids, and kids bring your parents to find out if Pea can become part of the family or will have to return to MONSTER WORLD! This all ages show runs on Saturdays at 2pm from October 1st through November 5th. Tickets are only $7!
For more information about any Verge shows, please visit www.vergetheater.com/. Reservations can be made online or in person at Cactus Records in Downtown Bozeman. Verge Theater is located at 2304 N. 7th Ave., across from Murdoch’s, at the extremely hilarious North end of Bozeman. •
