Making Widgets Not Revolution: Experimental Theater Mirrors Life

by Kealey Boyd

The rendezvous point was a small coffee shop and bar. Along with about 30 other recruits (participants) I was given a lanyard containing a welcome letter and a schematic of Colony 933. I almost missed a small tightly-rolled scroll that outlined a brief modern history of Earth and the colony. It made claims contradictory to the ones in my welcome letter. Directed by Kate Speer, an artist-in-residence at Denver’s RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Colony 933 is an immersive experimental theater of a post-apocalyptic world which mirrors an authoritarian society. Read more…