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Local Theater Company Will Introduce 10 New American Plays in 2021
The 2020 Local Lab was canceled due to COVID-19, but the Boulder theater company is planning for a larger, more inclusive slate of new playwrights to feature in the new year. Corinne Anderson •
December 16, 2020
Just 24 hours before the Local Theater Company’s annual three-day festival, Local Lab, was to kick off in Boulder this year, it was canceled due to COVID-19. More than 20 artists, including playwrights, dramaturges, stage managers, and directors were sent home. Local Theater Company’s organizers, headed by artistic director Pesha Rudnick, were forced to adapt in the following months as it became clear that life may not return to normal anytime soon and their traditional in-person model for play production development simply wouldn’t work.
In honor of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the Boulder Chamber Players commissioned an intriguing theatrical-musical event:
Incessant Hum: Beethoven 2020, featuring the later works, which were composed after Beethoven became deaf. Artistic director Barbara Hamilton enlisted the aid of award-winning actor-director Mare Trevathan and playwright Jeffrey Neuman, himself profoundly hearing impaired, to create the piece. The task was daunting, Neuman says, “because I wanted to serve Beethoven well both the music and the man and because I’d never really written about hearing loss, a subject that seemed a bit too close to home.” The result features acclaimed actors Chris Kendall as Beethoven and Chelsea Frye as Elise a name familiar to every piano student who ever attempted Beethoven’s lyrical Für Elise (Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor) . The stream is $25 for families, $10 for individuals and $5 students/unemployed; sign up at coloradochamberplayers.org.