*Death of a Small Town in the West*

Ben Olson's original new play — a satire about Sandpoint — showing on

Fridays-Saturdays, Aug. 20-21 and Aug. 27-28, at 7:30 pm

at the Panida Theatre in Sandpoint, Idaho

Tickets: $12; adult audiences.

In Olson's own words: 

In this "comedic satire, ... an infamous land raper moves into town and bribes the city council into letting him bulldoze the entire town and recreate Sandpoint from scratch, making it a full-blown kitschy resort town. This, as you may imagine, pisses off a gang of locals, who decide to plant bombs on all the three bridges surrounding Sandpoint and create an island community, not allowing anyone else in.
"There are musical numbers, singing land rapers, whiskey-fueled plans of sabotage, drunken city officials, villains with eye-patches, meaningless deaths and maybe, just maybe a little bit of social and political commentary that might live beyond these four nights."

Bobo is reminded of an exchange between Wesley and Emma in Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class:

W:  I'm not staying here forever.

E:  Where are you going?

I don't know. Alaska, maybe.

Alaska?

Sure. Why not?

What's in Alaska?

The frontier.

Are you crazy? It's all frozen and full of rapers.

It's full of possibilities. It's undiscovered.

Who wants to discover a bunch of ice?

*Postcards,* July 31-Aug. 8 in Sandpoint

a play inspired by the artwork of Viggo Mortensen

by Teresa Pesce

dir. Charles Strasser

at the Panida Little Theatre, behind Stage Right Cellars at 302 N. First Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho

Fridays-Saturdays, July 31-Aug. 1 and Aug. 7-8 at 8 pm; also matinee on Aug. 8 at 3:30 pm

Tickets: $12

"Postcards" is about "family secrets -- what we hide, what we reveal"

"Postcards" is also the premiere production of Art as Theatre -- plays inspired by original art

[ photo: from oregonlive.com; in The Oregonian 4/22/08; Viggo was shooting *The Road* on the northern Oregon coast, and appeared at a political rally ]

*Greater Tuna* at the Panida on Wednesday

*Greater Tuna*
Wednesday, May 6, at 7:30 pm
Panida Theater, Sandpoint, Idaho
(208) 263-9191
panida.org