STRANGE MATING CALLS, co-produced with Nervous Theatre

created by the company of actors, directed by Connor Berkompas

AUGUST 5-7, 19-21, 7:30pm

Strange Mating Calls reimagines Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema. The original film centered on an upper-middle class nuclear family in Milan who is visited by a mysterious guest. The guest radically disrupts the family structure only to depart as suddenly as he arrived, leaving the family to confront their own ‘bourgeois’ identities and assumptions.

Pasolini’s sparse script—there are only 923 words spoken in the entire film—serves as a neo-Marxist allegory, begging the question: What happens when we are suddenly forced to really look at ourselves, our ideologies, our identities, our place in society, our repressed desires, all at once?

Bozeman Actors Theatre and Nervous Theatre are co-producing Connor Berkompas' adaptation of Pasolini's work. Strange Mating Calls borrows the central ‘event’ of Pasolini’s film, dropping this family into the here-and-now. While much of the structure of the piece is pre-determined, the dramatic content is largely informed by the cast and the performance space of Tinworks Art.

House opens at 7pm. Performance starts at 7:30pm.

All performances are at the Story Mill Warehouse at the Silos.