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Yeehaw! Many of Colorado's annual summer events are restarting this weekend, but the more traditional lineup will be joined by a number of innovative entertainments that were forged during the pandemic.
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.”