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February 24, 2011 Culture » Entertainment Picks

Plan-B Theatre Company: Mesa Verde 

Thursday Feb. 24–Sunday March 6 @ Rose Wagner Center

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Over the course of his recent association with Plan-B Theatre Company, playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett has anchored his work in such familiar cultural touchstones as Leonardo da Vinci (Di Esperienza), the 1940s internment of Japanese-Americans (Block 8) and Alice in Wonderland (Radio Hour: Alice). In his latest work, he opts for something more personal yet still immediately recognizable.

Inspired by Bennett’s own experience—both with supporting an ailing loved one and with the abandoned cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park—Mesa Verde follows the relationship between two sisters, at first estranged but brought back together when one of them is diagnosed with cancer. Their reunion forces them to come to terms with their feelings about their late mother, and how they believe their lives were shaped by their mother’s lessons. The result is a search for healing that’s both physical and emotional and universally human even if the names and historical facts aren’t part of our common language.

Plan-B Theatre Company: Mesa Verde @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, 801-355-2787, Feb. 24–March 6, $20. PlanBTheatreCompany.org, ArtTix.org

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 Scott Renshaw has been a City Weekly staff member since 1999, including assuming the role of primary film critic in 2001 and Arts & Entertainment Editor in 2003. Scott has covered the Sundance Film Festival for 25 years, and provided coverage of local arts including theater, pop-culture conventions, comedy,... more

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