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The Catamounts‘ production of
Against all odds, 2020 became the year we fell madly, deeply in love with Denver.
Once stay-at-home orders relaxed in the spring, our cabin fever led us to seek out safe, in-person opportunities to counteract endless hours of Zoom meetings and awkward virtual versions of our favorite events. The creativity we found was inspiring, and it often popped up when we least expected it.
While taking walks on Denver’s new pandemic
Sunnyside Music Festival which, in lieu of filling a park with thousands of concert-goers, brought music to the streets by putting bands on pedicabs that roamed the neighborhood.
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