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Boulder theater troupe breaks ground with 'Cyrano"

Friday, April 15, 2016
From: 
Boulder Daily Camera
By: 
A.H. Goldstein

The final leg of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's tenth season has played out on a diverse range of stages.

In January, the troupe mounted Vera Rubin: Bringing Dark to Light at the Fiske Planetarium. The show fused old-fashioned stagecraft with cutting-edge technology, making full use of Fiske's stunning optics and effects to summon the jaw-dropping scope of the known universe.

For their production of Aaron Loeb's taut thriller Ideation in February, the company went in a completely different direction, taking a site-specific tack and running the show in the cozy confines of actual Boulder board rooms.

That unpredictability is set to persist in BETC's final production of the season, an updated take on the story of the warrior poet Cyrano de Bergerac by contemporary playwrights Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner. For Cyrano, the BETC crew will travel farther afield than ever for a two-week run at the Lone Tree Art Center's 500-plus seat main auditorium.

"It does give us a certain sense of pride that we can do this," said Rebecca Remaly, director of Cyrano and BETC ensemble member. "Give us the resources, give us the space and we can do it. We can go small, we can go nontraditional." She added, "No one who has followed BETC has ever seen us on this scale."

But the final production of the troupe's milestone season is about much more than simply proving their ability to pull off a large-scale show. Most immediately, Cyrano represents a new partnership between BETC and the creative brass at the Lone Tree Arts Center, a venue that's almost 50 miles from the ensemble's traditional home at the Dairy Arts Center. The two-week run of Cyrano offers a chance to share BETC's unique creative approach with a brand-new audience.

"It gave us an opportunity to expand the style of what we normally can do, to take advantage of being in this big, beautiful theater," said Stephen Weitz, BETC producing ensemble director and founder. Weitz is also playing the title role of Cyrano de Bergerac. "We get to introduce who we are."

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