Climbing With Tigers
In a time when most new live performances aren t possible, many organizations are offering audiences a chance to re-acquaint themselves with previous productions, or experience them for the first time, via streaming recordings. This month, Salt Lake Acting Co. launches its now SLAC Digital platform with a presentation of its 2016 production of
Climbing With Tigers.
The show adapts the picture book by writer Dallas Graham and 9-year-old Nathan Glad, which presents an allegory for Nathan s own condition Osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bones disease through a bird named Blue (Austin Archer, pictured) who longs to fly but fears that his own brittle bones won t withstand it. And so with the help of a magical narrator (Robert Scott Smith), Blue finds a Jolly Troop of birds and sets off on an adventure to find a legendary tiger, whose tail might have magical healing powers.