A BRIGHT NEW BOISE

About the show

Irene Diamond Stage In the bleak, corporate break room of a craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning The Rapture. Will, who has fled his rural hometown after a scandal at his Evangelical church, comes to the Hobby Lobby, not only for employment, but also to rekindle a relationship with Alex, his brooding teenage son, whom he gave up for adoption several years ago. Alex works there along with Leroy, his adopted brother and protector, and Anna, a hapless young woman who reads bland fiction but hopes for dramatic endings. As their manager, foul-mouthed Pauline, tries ceaselessly to find order (and profit) in the chaos of small business, these lost souls of the Hobby Lobby confront an unyielding world through the beige-tinted impossibility of modern faith. A Bright New Boise is the play that kick-started Samuel D. Hunter's career; it was commissioned and first produced by Partial Comfort Productions at the wild project in New York City in September 2010. The production was directed by Davis McCallum. In October 2011, John Vreeke directed a second production at Woolly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington, DC.