Boulder Ensemble Presents An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company presents An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf By Michael Hollinger

Directed by Rebecca Remaly
A Regional Premiere from the author of Opus and Red Herring!

On one hot July night in 1961, the staff of the Café du Grand Boeuf awaits the imminent arrival of Victor, the Café's owner and sole patron. But when Monsieur returns from the bullfights in Madrid, he brings with him news that sends his adoring staff into a race to save their jobs....and their master's life. A "comic tragedy in seven courses" celebrating the joys of food, sex, bullfighting and the collected works of Ernest Hemingway.

"An absurdist tragicomedy...that manages to pay homage to Hemingway and Beckett in an...often hilarious existential romp." -Boston Globe

Featuring:

John Arp Michael Bouchard Bob Buckley Crystal Verdon Eisele Josh Hartwell Theresa Dwyer Reid

Technical Elements:

Tina Anderson - Set

Andrew Metzroth - Lights and Sound

Brenda King - Costumes
Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf runs April 21 - May 7

Opening Night Celebration, Friday, April 22

Season 6 will be announced at the Opening Night reception!

Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 7:30pm, Sundays @ 4:00pm

The Dairy Center for the Arts

2590 Walnut Street, Boulder

Tickets at 303.444.7328 or www.TheDairy.org

Thrifty Thursdays - All tickets $13 on Thursday nights!

Visit www.BoulderEnsembleTheatre.org for more information!

Boulder Ensemble

Theatre Company
About BETC: 

The mission of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) is to expose, to entertain, to educate, and to inspire our audiences with the powerful, transformational potential of theatre. BETC stages plays that chronicle the human condition. We target an audience of adults and young adults in Boulder County and surrounding areas through production of contemporary plays, regional and world premieres, and revisited classics. Through our professional theatrical productions, we alter our community's cultural perceptions and provoke discussion beyond theatre's boundaries.

BETC arose in 2005 as Oddball Players with our inaugural production, An Evening of Plays. In our first full season as BETC, we presented two productions: Anouilh's Antigone, and two one-acts by Tony and Pulitzer winner John Patrick Shanley, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Savage in Limbo. Additionally, we presented Week #22 of the world premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days / 365 Plays.

Season 2 featured Tennessee Williams' American masterpiece, The Glass Menagerie, the austere and thought provoking Copenhagen by Michael Frayn, and the madcap, sidesplitting comedy, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Our production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea was honored with a 2007 Denver Post Ovation award nomination for Best Drama, and Complete Works was nominated for the 2008 Ovation Best Comedy Award.

Season 3 began with the Regional Premiere of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig and continued with Stop Kiss by Diana Son. The season concluded with the World Premiere of Morisot Reclining by acclaimed local playwright, William C. Kovacsik. Morisot Reclining was recognized with a Best New Play Nomination as part of the 2009 Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Awards and Denver Post Ovation Awards.

Season 4 kicked off with the Regional Premiere of Cormac McCarthy's haunting play, The Sunset Limited followed by our first holiday production, The SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris. Last season closed with The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl.

Season 5 began with the Pulitzer and Tonay award-winning Doubt by John Patrick Shanley and continued with a second year of The SantaLand Diaries. Crime and Punishment was the third show of our fifth Season and brought 1,100 area high-school students to our special matinee series. Empty Plate is the final show of Season 5.

 

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