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| Cast of "Starling" (photo Danielle Barnum) |
Next up for Confrontational TheaterProject: Starling by Julia Nardin
and Samm Murphy. This relatively new
company started out with two guys who wanted to put on a particular play. Beau Prichard and Baron Von Oldenburg did Proof
in 2012. Beau says, “It sold out and worked the way we wanted and Baron
suggested we just keep going. He gave the company the money to continue. I made
a short list of projects I wanted to do, (but first) found three local
playwrights who had one acts they wanted to have done and called it Lifelines and produced that in 2012, as
well.”
Asked where the name of the company came from, Beau says, “(We
think) the productions should tackle something important and give the audience
something to digest. They should be talking about it on the way home and even
have it come up several days later as they continue to think about what it
brought up for them.
“We wanted a strong word and the dictionary definition (says
‘confrontation’) can be a debate or discussion. It doesn’t have to be a fight,
which is what the word often means to people: conflict, direct antagonism. That’s
not what we mean. We mean open discourse about a difficult topic. You know
people will have different ideas, but there can be a way to talk about all of
them.