Aspen Fringe Presents

July
28-31
*2022

Join us for our encore performance of Heisenberg

ASPEN

FRINGE

We are pleased to announce our first ever collaboration with the Thunder River Theatre Company. Join AFF + TRTC for an encore performance of

HEISENBERG

Featuring work by Tony Award® winning playwright Simon Stephens

[STARRING] Local Favorites Nikki Boxer + Mike Monroney
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[The Performances will take place July 28 - 31st at the Thunder River Theatre Company in Carbondale, Colorado]

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The Aspen Fringe Festival is dedicated to the idea that great art stimulates cultural discussion, inspires other artists, and encourages people to think and act globally.

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A WORD FROM . . .

DAVID LEDINGHAM

AFF'S Artistic Director

A Word From . . .

Simon Stephens

Tony Award® Winning Playwright

PROGRAM

FRIDAY

JUNE 10, 2022

DOORS OPEN @ 7:00 PM MST
OVERTURE @ 7:30 PM MST

Heisenberg
by Simon Stephens

Heisenberg originally opened on Broadway in 2016 to great acclaim starring Tony Award® nominees Mary Louise Parker and Denis Arndt. Our performance will feature Aspen’s own Nikki Boxer and Mike Monroney and will be followed by a post-show talk with the playwright Simon Stephens.

Heisenberg

Simon Stephens, one of theater’s most original voices brings to blazing, theatrical life the uncertain and often comical sparring match that is human connection.

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Post Show Talk-Back

Tony Award® Winning Playwright, Simon Stephens, discusses the creation of Heisenberg

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PERFORMANCES BY

Donald Sage Mackay

AFF Co-Artistic Director

David Ledingham

Founder + Artistic Director

“Vibrant and emotionally charged…resonates in your mind long after its over” - New York Times

SATURDAY

JUNE 11, 2022

DOORS OPEN @ 7:00 PM MST
OVERTURE @ 7:30 PM MST

AFF PERFORMANCE SALON

It is in such environments that great ideas are born...and where people find the energy to have a positive influence on the world. It does not take millions of people to change social reality. Salons of previous eras have shown that it takes only a handful of creative and concerned individuals to trigger large scale positive change.

Maria

Maria is an exploration of the present and a loose adaptation of the myths surrounding Mary, for the digital age: Maria plays the young protagonist, just barely beyond childhood herself, with a child at 18 years old. With the father of her child long gone and her own mother dead, her brother returns after vanishing without a word for two years. Maria was commissioned by Germany’s Thalia Hamburg Theatre where it premiered in 2020

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PUNK ROCK

In a private school outside of Manchester, England a group of highly-articulate seventeen-year-olds flirt and posture their way through the day while preparing for their exams. With hormones raging and minimal adult supervision, the students must prepare for their future—and survive the savagery of high school. Inspired by playwright Simon Stephens’ own experiences as a teacher, PUNK ROCK is an honest and unnerving chronicle of contemporary adolescence.

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If I don’t Leave Here Now

Song from the new musical Starstruck currently in development by Beth Malone & composer Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls and Mary Ann Stratton. Starstruck is a modern-day queer retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac, set in a dark sky reserve in Idaho.

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Morning Sun

follows 3 generations of women in Greenwich VIllage and tells the story of Charley’s life from the moment of her birth to the moment of her death. As 50 years pass, one woman's life is revealed in all its complexity, mystery and possibility in this story about mothers and daughters, beginnings and endings in New York City. Written for Edie Falco, it premiered off-Broadway in November 2021 at Manhattan Theatre Club. In this excerpt, Eileen Seeley plays Charley, Wendy Perkins Plays Charley's mother Claudette and Charlie's boyfriend Eddie and Sonya Meyer plays Charlie's daughter Tessa and Dr. McMahon at The Hope Cancer Care Unit in Longmont Colorado.

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Sea Wall

A man makes sense of his life, love, family and the possibility of faith whilst facing an emotional abyss.Simon Stephens wrote the script as a stage play specifically for Andrew Scott. The film was directed by Andrew Porter & Simon Stephens and was produced by Veracity Digital. In 2019 the play ran at New York’s Public Theater.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain, but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. At 7 minutes after midnight, Christopher stands beside his neighbor’s dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork. Christopher is determined to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. During its premiere run at the Royal National Theatre in London in 2013, the play tied the record for winning the most Olivier Awards( 7 ) including Best Play. It won 5 Tony Awards including the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play.

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On the Edges of the New Air I Stop and Wait for a Time

On the Edges of the New Air I stop and wait for a time: A dance film by Graham Northrup performed by Seia Rassenti and commissioned by AFF with Text by Simon Stephens. This previously un-performed text for dance was originally written in collaboration with British choreographer Imogen Knight and composer Lincoln Barrett aka High Contrast.

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