Bitterroot
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Opened Jun 9, 2001
Closed Jun 24, 2001
Opened Jun 9, 2001
Closed Jun 24, 2001
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Paul Zimet presents Bitterroot, with original music by Peter Gordon. This new music-theater work is about Meriwether Lewis and the Corps of Discovery -- a quintessential American adventure performed by the celebrated Talking Band. He was at once idealistic, ingenious, confident, courageous, racist, and arrogant. On his return from the triumphant expedition he became, at a
young age, as famous as a modern day rock star, but he soon succumbed to alcohol and drugs. He died, a probable suicide, three years after the Lewis and Clark expedition ended. The contradictions in Lewis, in his motives and
legacy, haunt them as they continue to haunt us now.
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Bitterroot, written and directed by Paul Zimet for The Talking Band, opens with a scene from Tom Taylor's Our American Cousin--the play that President Lincoln was watching the day he was shot. A gun goes off, the curtain comes down, and we see the demoralized acting troupe trying to figure out what to do next. They've all been questioned by the government in connection with the assassination, and Washington D.C. is not very actor-friendly at the moment. Junius Payne (Jeffery Reynolds), the leader of the company, proposes that the company should bring a new theater piece to the ordinary people out West. The play will be based on the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark expedition with the Corps of D[...]