Back by Popular Demand THIS AUNT IS NOT A COCKROACH

Back by popular demand! Boulder-based companies square product theatre and Hoarded Stuff Performance, two groups known for creating inventive, off-the-wall original performance work, will perform their collaborative work "This Aunt is Not a Cockroach" at Buntport Theater for a limited run this October.

Twelve legs and a cactus living next door to each other in a crevice of the coastline (or perhaps: the Grand Canyon) eat, sleep, and work at regular intervals (or at least: they try). Two neighbors who barely know each other shift their gaze back and forth from the opening of a cozy desert cave to the unknown wilds of the unpredictable seas (or perhaps: it's just a sheer drop into the nothingness). They are trying to be decisive. They are trying to figure it out. They ask each other: what does any of it mean?

"Buntport Theater Company is thrilled to host this show!" says Erin Rollman, founding member of Buntport. "We saw its debut in April and can't wait to bring it to Denver. It's weird and sad and funny and original--all things that we love having in our space."

"We are so glad to have another opportunity to share this piece with our Colorado community," says Laura Ann Samuelson of Hoarded Stuff. "'This Aunt is Not a Cockroach' has allowed us to explore the ways in which dance and theater can be in conversation with one another, and has challenged the way we make new work. This collaboration with square product theatre is the first of many we hope to engage in. Their work strikes at the heart of what it means to be alive at this time. We love what they do."

"It has been a pleasure to create this show with Hoarded Stuff," said square product Producing Artistic Director Emily K. Harrison. "We've admired Laura Ann Samuelson's work for several years - it's always clever, thoughtful, and very, very funny, so when the opportunity to collaborate presented itself last season, we jumped at it. We can't wait to share this show with Denver audiences."

square product theatre is in their 11th Sesaon, and this year, they are presenting a thematic season of shows all exploring notions of power and privilege. Their season opens September 23rd with a remount of their 2012 hit, the Neo-Futurists' "44 Plays for 44 Presidents," presented in collaboration with the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Colorado Boulder. The rest of the season includes Portland-based performer Damaris Webb's "The Box Marked Black" and the Regional Premiere of Amelia Roper's "She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange." This spring, Hoarded Stuff presented "Goodnight, Courtney Love," created in collaboration with Joanna & The Agitators and staged to great acclaim in the Leisure Swimming Pool at the North Boulder Recreation Center. Hoarded Stuff will present a new solo dance work that will be presented in conjunction with squareproduct's presentation of Damaris Webb's "The Box Marked Black" in early 2017.

square product theatre's Mission: The mission of award winning, Boulder-based square producttheatre is to engage in radical acts of inquiry that leave an audience with just as many questions as answers. For more information on square product theatre, visit squareproducttheatre.org

Hoarded Stuff Performance is an experimental dance and performance company based in Boulder, Colorado. For more information on Hoarded Stuff Performance, visit lauraannsamuelson.com