LAB!’s second mainstage production, A Bright New Boise, opens Saturday, Oct. 26 at 7:30PM and runs through Monday, Oct. 28. A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter is the story of a “bleak, corporate break room of a craft store in Idaho” where someone is “summoning the rapture.”
A Bright New Boise is directed by UNC junior LJ Enloe. He previously directed for LAB!’s Rotating Rep in Spring 2019 (La Fiesta by Cole Kordus), assisted director Emma Scaggs for LAB!’s Spring 2019 production of Bethany by Laura Marks, and directed for LAB!’s 24 Hour Play Festival. Enloe proposed the play to LAB! because he loved the script and wanted to see it produced. “I was also fascinated by the questions it brings up and how people in the community might react to them,” Enloe says. “I feel like it covers topics that are more relevant and universal than it might initially seem.” “My favorite thing about the script is the style of the dialogue,” Enloe says. “It flows very naturally and comes from the characters very organically, enhancing the immersion and feeling of the world. I also love how much it leaves open for the actors, though, allowing them to make the characters their own while staying true to the script.” Actor Josh Wahab, playing the character Alex, says that he believes audiences will love the characters. “The plot is very ‘people driven’ so the most memorable parts of it will definitely be the moments between each of the employees in the Hobby Lobby,” says Wahab. Wahab’s favorite part of Alex is his complexity. “He's someone that could very easily lead the audience to dislike him, but there's a lot of nuances to him where you genuinely feel for him and everything he's going through,” Wahab says. Actor Alyssa Geary, playing the character Pauline, says her favorite part of the process has been the cast and crew. One of her favorite memories is Wahab’s iconic “dog sneeze.” “We are all in love with Josh's dog sneezes!,” Geary says. “It's gotten to the point where all of us have tried to mimic it, but none of us can do it as well as he can.” One of Enloe’s favorite memories dates all the way back to the first read through. “I hate to call him out, but in the first readthrough we all got the firsthand pleasure of learning that Michael Sparks has pronounced the T in Home Depot his entire life,” Enloe says. This team had a lot of fun and they are very excited to bring this show to UNC’s theatre community. “I think that this show is overall just a unique glimpse into a very specific world that I'm super excited to share with everyone,” Enloe says. “All the actors portray viscerally real characters with complex relationships, and I keep finding myself getting absolutely lost in their performance. I can't wait for everyone to see it.”
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