Talking With, by Jane Martin

Directed by Stephanie Campbell, Talking With is a play composed of eleven ten-minute monologues, each featuring a different woman who talks about her life. The play includes the pieces, "Fifteen Minutes," "Scraps," "Clear Glass Marbles," "Audition," "Rodeo," "Twirler," "Lamps," "Handler," "Dragons," "French Fries," and "Marks."

The play premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York in 1982 and has been performed around the world. The play deals with the personal ordeals of each of the female characters. Many of them are very touching; a few are even intensely emotional. However, there is also the very comical. Even the funny ones, however, have an underlying depth to them that gives a sensitive insight into each of the characters involved.

The play will be performed by a collection of Bozeman's most recognizable and talented actors, so you won't want to miss them bringing these diverse stories to life on the Verge stage. Talking With will run Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from Oct. 13 -Oct. 22. All shows begin promptly at 8pm. Reservations can be made online at vergetheater.com or in person at Cactus Records in Downtown Bozeman. Verge Theater is located at 2304 N. 7th Ave, across from Murdoch's, at the emotional, tender, and hilarious North end of Bozeman.

Improv On The Verge

Recover from your weekend with Improv Comedy! Join us as we offer up a Monday Night sacrifice of the most daring, death defying type of live theater there is: Improv! We call it Improv on the Verge! Improv Monday Nights feature The Bozeman Improverts  who will beguile you with their laser-like wits, sharp tongues, and obnoxiously large heads.

These masterful, main stage players improvise sketches built around audience suggestions, play improv games similar to those you see on Who's Line Is It Anyway, and perform long form improv that is basically making up short plays on the spot. You have to experience this to believe it!! It's a mere $7 to get in and laugh like hell at our team of S.W.A.T. trained Improv Players. (S.W.A.T. = SouthWest Alternative Theater). Shows are on October 3 and 24, and begin at 7pm. Reservations can be made online at vergetheater.com or in person at Cactus Records in Downtown Bozeman. Verge Theater is located at 2304 N. 7th Ave, across from Murdoch's, on the extremely hysterical North Side of Bozeman.

On the Family Stage - The Boy Who Loved Monsters and The girl Who Loved Peas, by Jonathan Graham

Left alone at the dinner table to finish the remains of his meal (a single, enormous pea), 8-year-old Evan wishes he had a real live monster to eat his peas and play with him. When a real live monster actually arrives, life is turned upside down for Evan and his family in this hilarious and heartfelt comedy. The monster, named Pea, immediately befriends Evan and his little sister, Sue, but the children have to keep talking the monster out of eating their parents!

What could possibly go wrong with this scenario? Well, parents bring your kids, and kids bring your parents to find out if Pea can become part of the family or will have to return to MONSTER WORLD! This all ages show runs on Saturdays at 2PM from Oct.1 - Nov. 5. Tix are only $7 and reservation for this fun and hilarious show can be made online at vergetheater.com, or in person at Cactus Records in Downtown Bozeman. Verge Theater is located at 2304 N. 7th Ave, across from Murdoch's, on the familial North Side of Bozeman.