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Enjoy the best stories and perspectives from the theatre world today.
Enjoy the best stories and perspectives from the theatre world today.
Finally, after years of school, school and, yep, more school, Alex is graduating. There’s just one little problem…Alex doesn’t have a clue what’s next.
But not knowing what your future holds is no reason not to celebrate. Instead, audiences are invited to join Alex for a graduation party when The Catamounts, in collaboration with Hanzon Studios and Museum of Outdoor Arts, presents Impossible Things.
“Party guests are invited to mingle with Alex and family members, raise a celebratory glass of sparkling punch (with or without alcohol), offer the graduate their best advice, and engage in other party games,” explained Director Amanda Berg Wilson. “At the party, there is a rift, and Alex’s guests accompany them to the other side of the looking glass, where they journey through the…intersection of childhood and adulthood.”
The experience takes place at Marjorie Park in Greenwood Village, which features the Museum of Outdoor Arts and its newly reimagined Cabinet of Curiosities and Impossibilities. Developed by local artist and DCPA Off-Center collaborator Lonnie Hanzon, the Cabinet is a whimsical immersive exhibition showcasing objects from fairy tales and children’s rhymes that tell stories about particular subjects such as early optics, geometry, magical tools, the heavens and objects of art.
“Impossible Things was born out of an invitation from Lonnie to The Catamounts to create a site-specific, immersive experience centered around the Cabinet, continued Berg Wilson. “I was struck by how so many of the elements of the cabinet plumbed deeply embedded childhood memories, and I was reminded of the distance between my childhood and my adulthood. I posited to Lonnie that we begin the experience at a coming-of-age ritual, and we landed on a graduation party.”
Impossible Things is conceived of and performed by Colorado’s top immersive artists, many of whom will be familiar to DCPA Off-Center and Education audiences including:
Jessica Austgen, Writer
DCPA connections:
Performer: Theater of the Mind, Between Us: The Deck of Cards, Cult Following, Corduroy, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
Playwright: DragON, DCPA Off-Center
Teaching Artist: DCPA Education
Amanda Berg Wilson, Director
DCPA connections:
Director/Assistant Director: Theater of the Mind, The Wild Party, Between Us: The Whiskey Tasting
Performer: Theater of the Mind, Sweet & Lucky
Lonnie Hanzon, Creative Director
DCPA connection:
Creator: Camp Christmas
Leah Cárdenas, Assistant Director
DCPA connection:
The Whiskey Tasting
Performer: Bright Lights of Denver
Kristy Rowe, In-World Graphics
DCPA connection:
Camp Christmas
David Darling, Technical Director
DCPA Connection:
Camp Christmas
Brad Ramsey, Prop Design
DCPA connection:
Camp Christmas
Other members of the creative team include Nika Garcia, Jayne Harnet-Hargrove, Wessie Simmons, Ben Coleman, Lara Maerz and Brosnan Bustamante.
Joan Bruemmer-Holden
DCPA connection:
Sweet & Lucky
Betty Hart
DCPA connection:
Director: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Assistant Director: Theater of the Mind
Maggie Tisdale
DCPA connection:
Performer: Goodnight Moon
Teaching Artist: DCPA Education
Other performers include Mark Collins, Christopher Kendall, Min Kyung Kim and Mel Schaffer.
When asked why people should come to Impossible Things, Berg Wilson enthused: “People should come to Impossible Things because they will get an intimate experience of a beautiful and relatively unknown corner of Denver amidst a theatrical journey written by one of Denver’s most beloved local playwrights. They should come because it is a comedy, and there’s not a lot of immersive theatre that is as funny as it is experiential! They should come because it features the work of a cadre of artists who are exploring the uniqueness of immersive theatre for our adventurous population.”
You’re invited to come to Impossible Things, which runs May 25-June 16, 2024 in Marjorie Park located at 6331 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle in Greenwood Village. The production takes place largely outdoors and tickets start at $40.
The Catamounts and Museum of Outdoor Arts are funded, in part, by citizen support of the SCFD.