by Ben Kemper | Apr 4, 2023 | Press
There has been a particular delight in setting up this “Folk Hamlet.” Spending the past month readying for tonight’s (yes, tonight’s!) performance for you (yes, you, stranger). We have been gathering tinder, hewing logs that will burn, and rolling the stones that will...
by Ben Kemper | Mar 27, 2022 | Press
In the tap room of the Mad Swede Brewing Company, two households, both alike in dignity, mingle in passion and laughter. The Boise Bard Players’ neat, compactly staged Romeo and Juliet is delightful and honest, not at all a paint-by-numbers tragedy but something...
by Ben Kemper | Jul 21, 2021 | Press
A wall and words are all you need to put on a show. Boise Bard Players, a gorilla tribe of actors used to putting up Shakespearean epics in the backrooms of breweries have stepped out into the sun, into JUMP’s Amphitheater, to put on The Tempest. Neatly cut but a...
by Ben Kemper | Mar 7, 2020 | Press
Shakespeare gets a lot of flack for being precious; swaddled in the cotton of industry, academia, and sanctity. And while his plays deserve all due reverence for their ability to, through warp and woof of plot and language resonate behind an audience’s sternum four...
by Ben Kemper | Apr 23, 2019 | Press
Dickie gets a bad rap. Sure he murdered two kids (what monarch hasn’t) and maneuvered a whole host of folk into getting their heads chopped off, but in the two years of his rule he opened collages, protected the poor, balanced the budget, and was as fair and decent a...
