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Westminster s Shoenberg Farm was opened as a dairy operation in 1912 by philanthropist Louis D. Shoenberg. At the time, Denver’s National Jewish Health was among the sanatoriums throughout the country serving tuberculosis patients. Many had flocked to Colorado for the clear mountain air, and Shoenberg wanted to find a way to provide food for these people.
It’s an unusual theater director who would see this kindly piece of history as artistic inspiration, but Amanda Berg Wilson, founder of The Catamounts, is an unusual artist.
“At the beginning of this whole COVID shitshow, I was thinking, I don’t know if I want to do Zoom theater, ” Berg Wilson recalls. “We say we’re dedicated to the reinvention of artistic forms. I originally created the company ten years ago to figure out ways to do theater that are not traditional. So I thought, I guess I have to figure it out.”
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Amanda Berg Wilson is the founder and artistic director of boundary-breaking company the Catamounts; she has acted locally and also directed for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Off-Center. Looking at the study, she was flummoxed. Uh.what? So do we have some secret celebrity among us that’s throwing off the average? she wonders. The best-paying non-Equity gigs average out to be about $15 per hour. If you’re lucky. Even an AEA contract at DCPA is probably around $800 a week, unless you’re a name. So unless someone’s got some secret underground lucrative gig pipeline I don’t know about, that’s some bullshit.
Amanda Berg Wilson admits there were some logistical challenges involved in staging a full-length play on a golf course. Some surprise elements were pleasant, like residents living on the outskirts of the course joining in for a nightly call-and-response section written into the script. Others were less so, such as cast members having to take turns serving as “coyote babysitters” on the lookout for a roving local pack.
For Wilson and the Catamounts theater group, all this was…ahem…par for the course. Back in 2019, they’d produced a piece called
The Last Apple Tree outdoors on a farm homestead. So when the city of Westminster approached the group in mid-May about producing a piece on Westminster’s Legacy Ridge Golf Course, the group responded with