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Opus
Or: Find the Pearl What would it take, dear reader, to tempt you into a desert compound, into an isolated community with peculiar...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
On The Other Hand, We're Happy
Or: Robodad and Supergirl Who can guess where our lives are going? Our days are such a tangle that only art can pick up the individual...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
A Complete Unknown
Or: The Electric Hour Fair warning, dear reader. I’m not the person you want to take to a Bob Dylan biopic. As a man and as a myth he’s...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20254 min read
Take Me Away
A new play by Heidi Kraay Or: Personal Savior Tale as old as time, true as it can be, somebody falls for someone they shouldn’t. She (Mia...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
Deep Blue
A New Play by Gregg Irwin Or: Shake Down Blues How does one play an artificial intelligence on stage? What is required to bring a...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
A Case For the Existence of God at BCT
Or: A Specific Kind of Sadness For two men in such similar circumstances, Ryan (Jake Atkinson) and Keith (Ian Duff) could not be more...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
The War of the Rohirrim
Or: You can ride a horse, but can you draw one? Oh Eowyn, how you’ve been missed. Since first she strode in Saxon-inspired finery across...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20253 min read
Sanctuary City
A reading at BCT Or: Mutual Need It’s Girl meets Boy. Girl and Boy are immigrants, Girl and Boy give shelter to each other in troubled...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20251 min read
Sing Sing
Or: And Now Time doth Waste Me A bright spark in a enclosed world, Divine G (Colman Domingo) a prisoner in the Sing Sing Correctional...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
Silent Sky at BCT
Or: Constellations From the void, it forms. A whole galaxy, a whole life, coalesces on the BCT stage. Under Tracy Sunderland’s direction,...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
American Fiction
Or: Notes from a Dyspeptic Son Based on Perceive Everett’s novel Erasure, American Fiction tells of a story of family trouble, Black...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
Cymbeline: Or, Imogen’s Fairytale
Or: “Thanks, Jupiter!” Cymbeline is a hard show. Hard to stage, hard to parse, hard to summarize. I’ve long had a game of trying to sum...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20253 min read
Conclave
Or: You Dark Horse You Is there a more melancholy face than Ralph Fiennes? Through he’s made his name playing explosive wizards, nazis,...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
Stockton to Table Rock
Or: Checks and Deltas High school senior Rori (Zoe Kelly) is doing her best. She has a SMARTgoals planner, Hailey her girlfriend...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20251 min read
The Fall Guy
Or: Don’t Try This At Home. Let’s be honest with ourselves; we came to watch the Fall Guy for the stunts. Based on the 80’s television...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20253 min read
Hit Man on Netflix
Or: Become a better person. Kill the old one. Murder gets a bad rap. Yes, yes most of the time it’s terrible, and senseless, and just...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20253 min read
The Lion
Or: One Life in Six Guitars It is frankly unfair how well Jake Allen plays guitar. Nattily dressed, surrounded by unshaded lamps, his...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
Wicked, Part 1
Or: It’s Not Easy, Being Green Oh oh oh, how I do love a big movie musical. Get me a sumptuous score and a hundred odd people doing...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20254 min read
Babygirl
Or: One Shade of Pink Fine as it is to watch Nicole Kidman greet the angels (to coin a euphemism) I cannot say that Babygirl was quite my...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
Renegade Nell
Or: Legend in the Making Dear reader, I know of no right and proper way to say it, other than to exhort you to treat yourself to Sally...
Ben Kemper
May 10, 20252 min read
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