Ben Kemper
Season on the Line
Or: Loomings. Despite what you may have heard dear reader, Moby Dick is a strong and vibrant novel. Funny, touching, reflective, and...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
The Hundred Foot Journey
Or: Flavorful fusion The best advice I can offer for seeing the Hundred Foot Journey is not to come hungry. Lasse Hallstrom’s direction...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
Steel Magnolias at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Or: Hail Ouiser Robert Harling’s 1987 Steel Magnolia’s is a play with a origin as captivating as its plot. Created in 10 days during “a...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20234 min read
Les Miserables at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Or: These are the songs that touch our souls When Jean Valjean (Stephen Mitchell Brown) is freed from 19 years of hard labor, it only to...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20234 min read
The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Or: Gilded Glory The town of Windsor, Wisconsin, 1947. The War is over and the air is thick with gayety, anticipation, and other musky...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
Calvary
Or: Redemption unreached On Sunday, Father James (Brendan Gleeson), Shepherd of a small Irish town, is informed via confessional that one...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Moody’s Pub
Or: Rude and Rapturous Mechanicals In the mellow night of a late august eve, partitioned from the world by rough stone walls, sheltered...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20239 min read
All Our Tragic
Or: Blood, tears and bright burning hope Sean Graney, director and adaptor of the mad and marvelous All Our Tragic wanted nothing less...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
The Size of the World
Or: You Can't Go Home Again A man of charisma, loquaciousness and determination young Peter Hogancamp (Matt Edmonds) has returned to...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
A Most Wanted Man
Or: The Soft Touch In Hamburg, Germany, the compost ground of international terrorism (and counter-terrorist agencies) Issa Karpov...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20234 min read
Who Rowed Across Oceans: A new work by Danielle Littman
Or: “Don’t hate the sea from the shore/the ocean was here long before...”* “How does a life get led?” That, for me, is the question;...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20235 min read
The Forest Play: A new work by Taylor Bostwick
Or: “Everybody says they want a fairytale wedding; and yet, when I show up the curse the firstborn, I’m the bad guy.”* The vows have been...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
Juno
Or An Irish Fiddler Midway through act one of Juno I was sized by a sense of deja vu. Where had I seen this lively party ripped asunder?...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20235 min read
The Pirates of Penzance: or the slave of Duty
Or: Not Quite the Very Model But Quite Good Enough For Me Before begin I find myself Duty bound, to tell those others who dote upon...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
The Hundred Dresses (encore)
Or: the Coming Chill In the stage rendering of Elenore Estes novel, the world occupied by Maddie Martins (Myrna Conn) and her playmates...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
The Qualms: a new play by Bruce Norris
Or: Swinger State In a well appointed sea-side apartment Teri (Kate Arrington) and Gary (Keith Kupferer) prepare to host this months...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
The Art of Losing a new play by Julie Del Prete
Or: The Kingdom The outlook wasn’t hopeful for the Boston Red Sox that year, or indeed for any of the 86 previous years since they won...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20234 min read
Monstrous Regiment at Lifeline Theater
Or: The Girl I left behind me In Chris Hainsworth's adaptation of Terry Pratchett's satyric masterpiece Monstrous Regiment we find...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20234 min read
Northwestern's 2014 New Playwright's Showcase
Or: Bending Upwards, Searching for the Sun Last night I had the rare and distinct pleasure of watching ten minute cuttings ten new plays,...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
This is, Or: The Wild Hunt for Home and Heart
It’s not really my wicket; the blood hot and bone raw wandering type theater grown from its performers and scattered across a landscape...
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