Bas Bleu announces 2023-2024 season

Fort Collins’ Bas Bleu Theatre Company recently announced its upcoming season in full. Here’s the lineup:

September 8 – October 1, 2023

Native Gardens
By Karen Zacarias | Directed by Saffron Henke
In the suburbs of Washington D.C., high-powered lawyer Pablo Del Valle and his pregnant, doctoral candidate wife Tania, have just purchased their dream home. Next door neighbors and long-time residents Frank and Virginia welcome them with open arms until Tania and Pablo set to work on building a fence and discover that their property line is 2 feet into Frank’s beloved garden. This creates friction between the neighbors and an all-out border dispute erupts. Can such different people from totally different backgrounds find a way to compromise? How can you love your neighbor when you’re sure they’re invading your space?

November 24 – December 17, 2023

Act A Lady
By Jordan Harrison | Directed by Steve Keim
When the Elks Club of a small Prohibition-era town decides to put on a Christmas fundraiser dressed in “fancy-type, women-type clothes,” the whole community is affected: gender lines blur, eyebrows raise, identities explode, and life and art are forever entangled. A sweet, sly, and subversive Midwestern fable about the woman in every man, the man in every woman, and the power of theatre to uncover both. Accompanied by accordion.

February 16 – March 10, 2024

The Open House
By Will Enos | Directed by Jack Krause
This is a story about a family, until it isn’t. Cycles of abuse and trauma are examined through the lens of both the familial participants and the outside witnesses. The family is broken, and many other stories would tell you that things can be fixed. The Open House asks you to lean in and really ask yourself, should it? Can it? Is there something else?

May 24 – June 16, 2024

Waiting for Godot
By Samuel Beckett | Directed by Laura Jones
Vladimir and Estragon wait on a deserted country road to meet a person named Godot. Killing time with hat tricks and half-remembered stories, they dawdle through one of the greatest dramas of the 20th century. In Beckett’s absurd, anarchic world, life is vaudeville and tragedy, philosophy and confusion, all seamlessly woven together with the playwright’s masterful blend of poetry and humor.

October 13 – 15, 2023

Readers’ Theatre
The Turn of the Screw
By Henry James and Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by Robyn Cuthbertson

A young governess is sent to a large country estate to
care for two children. She has strict instructions from their guardian never to write to him, never to ask about the history of the house, and never to abandon the children. It isn’t long before the Governess starts to see apparitions around the grounds. But are the phantoms real, or is it all in the Governess’ fevered imagination?

April 5 – 7, 2024

Readers’ Theatre

Queen
By Madhuri Shekar | Directed by Maya Jairam
Two women – best friends and scientific colleagues – while navigating their own complex personal travails, are also facing an ethical and scientific dilemma that could potentially have disastrous consequences for their friendship, their careers, science, and the environment as a whole. Do they disrupt the hive-mind, and forge a new future and path, or do they do what’s expected and assimilate like drones, thereby risking total collapse?