Based on Colorado history, Buntport's "Best Town" is a zany work that digs into a big bag of ideas, jokes, images, pop culture knick-knacks and historical archives
No theater company in the country is quite like Buntport. This group of five local creatives Brian Colonna, Hannah Duggan, Erin Rollman, Erik Edborg and SamAnTha Schmitz stages entirely original productions. The troupe s members create those productions through discussions, improvisation and eventually writing scripts. Each of the five writes, directs, produces and worries about business matters, though Schmitz prefers not to appear on stage.
Buntport has been in the same converted warehouse on Lipan Street from its beginning in the ’90s. At the time, the cavernous space was so cold that audiences, usually pathetically sparse, were forced to either shiver through a winter evening or strain to hear the dialogue because the available heating was so loud and cranky. In recent pre-COVID years, faithful followers thronged Buntport openings and found the place comfortable and configured in new, different and interesting ways for every show.