by Ben Kemper | Apr 27, 2025 | Press
As I checked in to the Boise Bard Players Servant of Two Masters, site specified amid the open plan office of the Trailhead shared work space, I was given the option, for a donation, to choose one of several a mystery bags. Concealed within was an item of a silly...
by Ben Kemper | Aug 22, 2024 | Press
Cymbeline is a hard show. Hard to stage, hard to parse, hard to summarize. I’ve long had a game of trying to sum up Shakespearean stories in their simplest essence; Cymbeline has always been “Plot Too Difficult to Explain.” That’s not to say it’s a bad play...
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...
