Thunder River Theatre Company

Death of the Pugilist
2024-11-03 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | Thunder River Theatre, 67 PROMENADE, Carbondale, 81623, United States
Death of the Pugilist
A BenFeng Music Production
Sunday, November 3
2:00 PM
Prepare to be transported to the gritty underbelly of 1820s England in BenFeng Music Production’s Death of The Pugilist. Based on contemporary American novelist Daniel Mason’s powerful short story, Death of the Pugilist embodies everything exceptional about a BenFeng Music Production: free-spirited, expressive, and transformative.
Set on the quayside docks amid the squalor of working-class life in 1820s England, the narrative follows a young man as he comes of age in a rough-and-tumble profession, with music weaving the rich layers of emotional tapestry and humanity.
Drawing from the musical elements of contrapuntal Bach, minimalistic Philip Glass, blues and Irish folk music, the production creates a deeply moving and truly unique experience of story and music.
The talented ensemble features narrator Jem Moore, alongside four exceptional and award-winning musicians: MinTze Wu, Eric Thorin, Joy Adams, and Blayne Chastain. Costume Design by Bineke Kiernan and Lighting Design by Sean Jeffries.
Death of the Pugilist premiered in the summer of 2008 at Gros Morne Summer Music in Newfoundland, broadcast live by CBC Radio 2. The author Daniel Mason called the piece “absolutely beautiful and so stunningly paced with the story.” The production made its US premiere at the Sounds of Lyons Music Festival in 2009 and was re-envisioned with the current ensemble in 2021 as part of the inaugural Garden Music Series in Carbondale, Colorado.

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Ghostlight
2024-10-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Thunder River Theatre, 67 PROMENADE, Carbondale, 81623, United States
Join us for an evening of immersive ghost stories all originating from haunted Colorado theatres.
Several showing each evening. The performance will take place in several locations throughout the building.

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What the Constitution Means to Me
2024-09-19 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-09-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Thunder River Theatre, 67 PROMENADE, Carbondale, 81623, United States
What the Consitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed By: Cassidy Willey
Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.
September 13 – 29, 2024

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What Was I Made For?: Saturday, August 10 at 7:30 pm
2024-08-10 19:30 - 21:30
“What Was I Made For” is a captivating cabaret show featuring three best friends, college roommates and fierce sopranos, as they navigate the complexities of life’s many stages. Rediscovering their purpose through the profound experiences of love and loss. With soul-stirring vocals, intoxicating harmonies and heartfelt storytelling, these women illuminate the resilience of friendship across thousands of miles. Music Theatre, pop, jazz, country and original music, we’ve got it all. Come along as they journey to find the meaning and magic through music.

Three best friends, Three part harmonies, One Night Only

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The Monster in Me: July 27-28, 2024
2024-07-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Thunder River Theatre, 67 PROMENADE, Carbondale, 81623, United States
By Clara Harris
Two every day students are guided by an omniscient host as their emotions become actual monster puppets that illustrate how feelings can sometimes be bigger than we are. As they journey through a typical school day, the host teaches them and the audience three specific strategies for taming these monsters and learning what to do when we feel overcome by anger, fear, jealousy, or any other powerful emotion.
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POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive Jun 14-30, 2024
2024-06-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Thunder River Theatre, 67 PROMENADE, Carbondale, 81623, United States
By Selina Fillinger
Directed by Kate Gleason
One four letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the president unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
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