{"id":1320471,"date":"2020-06-11T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T22:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=997194"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T22:22:41","slug":"thunder-river-presents-final-play-of-season-virtually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/thunder-river-presents-final-play-of-season-virtually\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder River presents final play of season virtually"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/AEPinkUnicorn-gpi-061220-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/AEPinkUnicorn-gpi-061220-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/AEPinkUnicorn-gpi-061220-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/AEPinkUnicorn-gpi-061220-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/AEPinkUnicorn-gpi-061220-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/AEPinkUnicorn-gpi-061220-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Carbondale native Missy Moore plays working-class widow Trisha in Thunder River Theatre Company&#8217;s production of &#8220;The Pink Unicorn.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Thunder River Theatre Company\u2019s final production of its 2019-20 theater season is a timely story about a mother in a conservative Texas town struggling with her teenage daughter\u2019s sudden announcement that she is genderqueer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pink Unicorn,\u201d a one-person play written by Elise Forier Edie, will be filmed without an audience in the Carbondale company\u2019s theater, and then streamed online starting at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 12.<\/p>\n<p>Carbondale native Missy Moore plays the mother \u2014 working-class widow, Trisha \u2014 in a reprise of the role that won her the Henry Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for Denver\u2019s And Toto Too production of \u201cThe Pink Unicorn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere really is a timeliness to this production because the piece is such a beautiful and funny and poetic way really speaks to how important it is that we all embrace each other for our shared humanity,\u201d said TRTC Executive Director Corey Simpson. \u201cWe really see a mother struggle with loving her child for who her child is rather than what she envisions what she wants her child to be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the perfect piece for anyone who has ever felt different. And it\u2019s also the perfect piece for any of us who have struggled to love and appreciate people who are different from ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The theater company had originally planned to close the season with the eight-actor play \u201cInto the Breeches,\u201d but soon after coronavirus restrictions were put in place, TRTC decided it would need to find some sort of alternative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike many theaters in the country, I started looking at one and two actor productions, as that would allow us to do something that was safe and socially-distanced,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n<p>A conversation with theater veterans Wendy and Bob Moore led Simpson to call their daughter, Missy, who told him she\u2019d \u201clove to do that production,\u201d as all her other jobs in Los Angeles, where she lives, had been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Missy Moore recommended that Simpson contact director Susan Lyles \u2014 the founder of And Toto Too \u2014 to direct the TRTC production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got Susan into a virtual meeting and started talking about ideas and soon enough we had decided that Susan would be able to virtually direct the piece from home in Denver with Missy doing rehearsals at a dance studio in LA,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cIt became a completely virtual rehearsal process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The logistics of virtually performing a theater production moved TRTC away from their original plan of live-streaming the play to instead creating a high-definition recording of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really have high standards for the quality of what we want to produce for people who are paying to see theater,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cIt\u2019s still a live performance in our theater that we\u2019re recording, but we want to be certain of the quality of the piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the changes TRTC has made for \u201cThe Pink Unicorn\u201d include filming it as a proscenium production, meaning the audience is only on one side, as opposed to past TRTC plays that were three-quarters thrust productions where the audience is on three sides or in-the-round productions where the audience is on all four sides.<\/p>\n<p>Another change is in how the stage is lit, with TRTC production designer Sean Jeffries using only about 20% of the light levels he would normally use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to present an experience that is live theater on camera as opposed to creating something that feels like film,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cWith film, you\u2019re constantly shifting between your shots and your cameras, you\u2019re doing close-ups and you\u2019re pulling back. Here it\u2019s much more similar to a theater-going experience where there\u2019s not a lot of shifting happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have tried to stay true to the theater experience with this, even though it\u2019s an on-camera experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets can be purchased at <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderrivertheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thunderrivertheatre.com<\/a>, click on \u201ctickets.\u201d You will then be sent a password-protected link on which to watch the show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jbear@postindependent.com\">jbear@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/thunder-river-presents-final-play-of-season-virtually\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbondale native Missy Moore plays working-class widow Trisha in Thunder River Theatre Company&#8217;s production of &#8220;The Pink Unicorn.&#8221; Thunder River Theatre Company\u2019s final production of its 2019-20 theater season is a timely story about a mother in a conservative Texas town struggling with her teenage daughter\u2019s sudden announcement that she is genderqueer. \u201cThe Pink Unicorn,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-03 19:04:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}