square product theatre & Hoarded Stuff to Stage THIS AUNT IS NOT A COCKROACH

Boulder-based companies square product theatre and Hoarded Stuff Performance, two groups known for creating inventive, off-the-wall original performance work, are joining forces for "This Aunt is Not a Cockroach." The collaborative, World Premiere production will enjoy a limited run at the Wesley Chapel in Boulder, April 28 - May 7th.

Twelve legs and a cactus living next door to each other in a crevice of the coastline (or perhaps: the Grand Canyon) eat, sleep, and work at regular intervals (or at least: they try). Two neighbors who barely know each other shift their gaze back and forth from the opening of a cozy desert cave to the unknown wilds of the unpredictable seas (or perhaps: it's just a sheer drop into the nothingness). They are trying to be decisive. They are trying to figure it out. They ask each other: what does any of it mean?

"We're thrilled to collaborate with Hoarded Stuff on this new work," said square product Producing Artistic Director Emily K. Harrison. "We've admired Laura Ann Samuelson's work for several years - it's always clever, thoughtful, and very, very funny, so when the opportunity to collaborate presented itself, we jumped at it."

"We're really enjoying exploring ways in which dance and theater can be in conversation with one another," said Laura Ann Samuelson of Hoarded Stuff. "It's an opportunity for us to challenge the ways we traditionally make new work."

"This Aunt is Not a Cockroach" marks the closing of square product theatre's 10th Anniversary Season, following the World Premiere of Kelsie Huff's "Ranch Dressing & Other Coping Mechanisms" and the professional Boulder Premiere of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning "How I Learned to Drive." The production is presented on the heels of Hoarded Stuff's "Goodnight, Courtney Love," created in collaboration with Joanna & The Agitators, and staged to great acclaim in the Leisure Swimming Pool at the North Boulder Recreation Center earlier this year.

square product theatre's Mission: The mission of award winning, Boulder-based square product theatre is to engage in radical acts of inquiry that leave an audience with just as many questions as answers. For more information on square product theatre, visit squareproducttheatre.org

Hoarded Stuff Performance is an experimental dance and performance company based in Boulder, Colorado. For more information on Hoarded Stuff Performance, visit lauraannsamuelson.com

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