Inherit the Wind Sold Out

We will have a couple of house seats and perhaps seats from "no shows" available at the door for $12 each ($6 for students with ID). Plan to come half an hour before curtain and wait until 5 minutes before curtain. We'll try to seat everyone but can't promise a thing.

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

Inherit The Wind is selling out fast! Avoid disappointment. Get those last few tickets in your pocket now!

BOP Looking for Talented Women

Bisbee’s Obscure Productions Casting for 2011 Women’s Revue

Bisbee’s finest community theater, BOP, is putting out the call to Bisbee area women interested in sharing their performing talents in music, acting, poetry, dance, videography, comedy, and whatever we haven’t thought of. Three performances are scheduled for evenings, March 11 and 12, and the afternoon of March 13. Performers must also be available for a dress rehearsal evening of March 10. Performers and acts that Obscure Rae has not seen must contact her to schedule an audition. Performers will rehearse on their own. Rae can be reached at obscurerae@gmail.com or at 432-2901.

Last year’s return of this, once again annual, Bisbee treasure drew from performer’s original works and featured wonderful musical ensembles, as well as educational moments and lots of laughs. Pat Panther was joined by her daughter-in-law Danielle to sing the blues, and Risha Druckman joined her mother, Jenny, and others in an eclectic mix of original music, to add a nice family element we are pleased to promote.

B. O. P. takes on the Scopes “Monkey” Trial

A cast of 30 of Bisbee’s finest actors, directed by Rae E. Jones, has begun rehearsals for Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. This intense courtroom drama captures the emotion-packed division between fundamentalist religious believers, bent on keeping the teachings of evolutionary biology (as put forth by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species) out of the classrooms, and civil libertarians pressing to retain free speech and fighting to keep religious censorship out of education. William Roberts and Eugene (Gene) Conners square off as fictionalized versions of William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow (Mathew Harrison Brady and Harold Drummond in the play), oratorical giants of their day. These courtroom scenes were “torn from the headlines” long before Law & Order was cool. The real life Dayton, Tennessee, has been changed to Hillsboro, Ohio, circa 1925.

Rae likes this play because these issues arise again and again in our society and the dichotomy of beliefs seems to be at a new emotional high at this time, separating our citizens into warring camps. She believes that open-minded playgoers of all beliefs will come away from the theater with considerable food for thought after seeing this drama.

Performances of “Inherit the Wind” are scheduled for 7:30 pm on January 21, 22, 28, & 29, 2011, with 3:00 pm matinees slated for January 23 and 30. Mark your calendars now so as not to miss what promises to be an outstanding show. All performances will be held in the theater at Central School Project in Old Bisbee.

Special Price for Yellow Boat Matinee

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Bisbee’s Obscure Productions is offering special family prices for the matinee performance of The Yellow Boat by David Saar The show is Bisbee’s Obscure Productions family theater for patrons 8 years old and up. The matinee will be Sunday, September 26, at 3:00 pm. Families of parents (or parental units) and children will be admitted for just $5 each. Mention that you heard it on the blog.

The Yellow Boat is Open -- Don't Be Afraid

The Yellow Boat by David Saar opened last Friday to great acclaim -- from the few people who saw it. It's like nothing you've seen before from BOP. There's music and dance, but it's not Urinetown. There are poignant parts that might make you tear up, but it's not a tragedy.

The Yellow Boat is a lovely and triumphant celebration of the life of Benjamin Saar, who was once a real live kid, an artist. Benjamin contracted HIV from treatment for hemophilia. All through his life he drew. He drew trains and monsters and boats and rainbows. Benjamin was funny and smart. His father's play gives us all of this, and with the help of a fine cast, BOP honors Benjamin and entertains you.

Yes, there is sadness, and there is regret for a life that was too, too short. We have tissues. Don't be afraid to cry. Don't be afraid to laugh either. There are some good ones.

A 180 degree flip

We were still unable to cast The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told by Paul Rudnick. So, we did a 180 in terms of content, but not in terms of artistry.

Our next production will be The Yellow Boat by David Saar. It's family theater, which we haven't done in a while, and not at all at Central School Project. The Yellow Boat is based on a true story. David Saar and his wife Sonja had a son, Benjamin, who was born with hemophilia. Benjamin is an artist, who express his joys and pains through drawing and painting. He contracted HIV through treatment for hemophilia. The Yellow Boat is the story of his journey expressed not only in words, but in color, dance, music and movement.

Please join us in September for this beautiful play.

For ages 8 and up.

Dates:
September 17, 18, 24 & 25 at 7:30 pm
September 26 at 3:00 pm