BOZEMAN - Verge Theater is excited to announce its inaugural New Works Fest! This highly anticipated weekend features 13 brand-new playwrights sharing their original works with the Bozeman Community, some for the first time. Over the course of this three-day festival, our community will have the incredible opportunity to be a part of these playwrights’ creative process by being a responsive audience member in the room, witnessing these incredible works brought to life on stage.

New Works Fest will feature thoughtfully written productions starring some of your favorite local performers. Featured work will display a wide variety of genres, subject matter, and staging by an eclectic group of creative writers that span the ages, social backgrounds, and lived experiences. Verge is honored to include one of Verge’s Teen Theater participants, an MSU film student, an Academy Award Winner, and more! From full production to a selection of monologues to a collection of poetry to works actively still in progress, there is a little something for everyone.

HEADLINER! Coming off the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and sold-out run at the Echo Theater in Los Angeles, Verge Theater is honored to welcome to the stage, Certain Death and Other Considerations by Eliza Frakes. The world will end in exactly 80 years – just enough time to have a baby!

Certain Death and Other Considerations is a devised dark comedy that follows two couples (and a surrogate) as they prepare to welcome new life into a dying world;  “A compelling premise, a smart script, and five engagingly understated performances.”- The Stage review from Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Certain Death and Other Considerations will be performed Friday May 10 and Saturday, May 11 at 8:30 p.m.