jan.31.2023 - mar.12.2023
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A Bright New Boise, the second production in Samuel D. Hunter's Premiere Residency at Signature, is an acclaimed early play from the MacArthur Fellow. Last season, Signature’s world premiere of his play A Case for the Existence of God won the NY Drama Critics Circle award for Best Play and was named among 2022’s Best by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York, and others. Hunter’s screenplay adaptation of his 2011 play, The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser, directed by Darren Aronofsky, has received global attention and critical praise.
“One of the finest playwrights
at work today.”
– The Wall Street Journal
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The Cast
Anna Baryshnikov
Ignacio
Diaz-Silverio
Peter
Mark Kendall
Eva Kaminsky
Angus
O'Brien
A Bright New Boise boldly mines themes integral to Hunter’s work, particularly the search for divinity and intimacy and the question of how the social and physical architectures of late capitalism create a breeding ground for American zealotry.
Will (Peter Mark Kendall) has fled his northern Idaho hometown and found a new community in the artificially bright break room of his new Boise workplace, a Hobby Lobby craft-supply chain store. But there are other reasons he’s chosen to make a fresh start for himself in the world of this specific big box store: one recent scandalous tragedy and another from long ago involving a new coworker. Will’s presence—the past that sticks to him, the grandiosity of his troubled faith, the weight of his hunger to connect—threatens to throw the sanctuary of the Hobby Lobby ecosystem into chaos.
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Creative Team
Scenic Design | Wilson Chin |
Costume Design | April M. Hickman |
Lighting Design | Jen Schriever |
Sound Design | Christopher Darbassie |
Projection and Video Design | Stefania Bulbarella |
Casting | Caparelliotis Casting |
Press | Blake Zidell & Associates |
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Signature Theatre's Season Sponsor is Bloomberg Philanthropies.
A Bright New Boise is supported, in part, by an award from the Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation.
Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for
their generous support of the Premiere Residency program.
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