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BURAN THEATRE COMPANY'S
2010 SEASON Excavating Personal Mythologies & Cultivating
Community in Performance
BOURNIJKA
THE BOXER
a new buran in development by Adam R. Burnett
Directed by company member Theresa Buchheister
March 19, 2010, 7:30 pm
Pearl Studios- New York, NY
500
8th Avenue (between 35th and 36th streets) 12th Floor.
Synopsis: In this new buran a young writer
seeks to discover the history of his great-grandfather, a Polish immigrant who, according to myth, was a prize-winning boxer,
the inventor of the Nabisco cookie, and spoke only in verse. As legend only leads him deeper into uncertainty, our protagonist
makes the trek to Krakow, Poland only to find that his play, “Bournijka the Boxer,” which he hasn’t written
yet, is already being produced and he must transcribe and plagiarize his own work to get to the heart of his family’s
deep rooted mythology. Cast: Amy Virginia Buchanan Dale Buchheister
Christopher Luxem
Joshua Dixon Ryan Downey Jean Goto Scott
Johnson Erik LaPointe Michelle Nikoomanesh Jenny Selig
Marc Scrivo
& Megan Shea
THE
COTTON PLANTATION a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard by Mars Mraz
Directed by Adam R. Burnett
May 21st & 22nd at 8pm
May 23rd at 2:30 pm A performance workshop
Albuquerque, NM
Theatre
X -UNM Center for the Arts Synopsis: Laura Belle, a wealthy Southern landowning, aristocratic woman, returns
to her estate (a 19th century cotton plantation), bankrupt, after many years of travel. Upon returning she is greeted by three
of her ex-slaves, Bubba (a mechanic), Thomas, (a scholar) and Lott (a businessman), who warn her that the mortgage has not
been paid and that the estate is to be auctioned off. While Bubba builds a rocket that will take him to the moon, and Thomas
devotes his time to researching ways he can turn the plantation into an academic institution, Lott establishes a partnership
with Laura Belle to close the plantation and build vacation homes that will reap profits for the both of them.
Company: Andy Brooks, Adam Burnett, Frank Green, Casey Mraz, Erin Phillips, Ryan Sciarrotta,
& Travis Sweatte.
THE HOUSE OF FITZCARRALDO
Kansas City Fringe Festival
(Kansas City, MO)
Unicorn Theatre- Jerome Stage
July 26 @ 7 pm
July 27 @ 8:30 pm
July 28 @ 7 pm
July
29 @ 10 pm
July 30th @ 8:30 pm
July 31st @ 11:30 pm
August 1 @ 4pm
 Tickets: $10, with a Fringe Festival button
Core collective: Adam R. Burnett, Hilary Kelman, Jud Knudsen,
Nick Kostner, & Val Smith
Designed by Nick Kostner
Original music by Ben Leifer & Christopher Luxem
Dramaturgy
by Henry Bial
Directed by Nikolas Weir
Deep in the heart of the Peruvian jungle lies a dream. A falsified
dream held up by man for generations. In 1979 Buran Theatre followed German director Werner Herzog and his production team
to the Peruvian jungle in attempts to reconstruct the filming of the epic art house classic Fitzcarraldo in tandem with its
making. As the constant performance drove the group to musical-accompanied insanity, they found themselves lost in the jungle
with a feverish quest and a key to a house on the top of Machu Picchu. In the summer of 2010 those who survived will finally
come forward to tell the terrifying and often knee-slapping stories of their counterparts who were left behind, deep in the
jungle, in the House of Fitzcarraldo. Buran Theatre Company’s triumphant return to the KC Fringe proves once and for
all that no man is an island, but some men are isthmuses. Are you brave enough to follow their footsteps into The House of
Fitzcarraldo? AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY, VOL. 1
September 8 -11 @ 8 pm
September 12 @ 6:30
Studio/Stage
520 North Western Avenue
Hollywood, CA 90004
Directed by Lara Thomas Ducey
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