Ruckus February 17, 2023

‘Sunset Limited’

Bozeman Actors

Theatre showcases

Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy’s ‘Sunset Limited’ isn’t black, white

RACHEL HERGETT for the Chronicle

“The Sunset Limited” features two characters, named in the script as Black and White. And though the two men in Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 play may seem to take opposing views, the reality depicted is much more nuanced. “You see everything in black and white,” White says in the Bozeman Actors Theatre production opening on Friday, Feb. 17, at the Eagles Club in Bozeman.

“It is black and white,” Black replies. “I guess that makes the world easier to understand,” White says.

Black, we learn, has saved White from throwing himself in front of an oncoming subway train. White did not want to be saved. The play opens to the two sitting at Black’s rickety dining table, topped with some papers, a bible and a notebook. Black’s apartment is small; its walls thin. Life continues beyond them.

White, according to actor Ben Leubner, is afraid of the other man, and can barely look him in the eye for the first 30 minutes of “The Sunset Limited.”

“You probably stare at basically the top of my head for the first quarter of the play,” Leubner said.

Though his presence may feel intimidating, Black takes him in. He insists they are friends and feeds the downtrodden man.

“You break bread with a man, you move on to another level of friendship,” he says.

Black is played by Carlo Campbell, a native of Philadelphia, where he is the artistic director of Theatre In The X. Campbell rehearsed over Zoom from the City of Brotherly Love. He wore a T-shirt with the theater’s name emblazoned in orange across the chest to the first in-person run-through on Monday.

Aside from a recent resurgence in local acting roles, Leubner is a poet and Montana State University literature professor. “The Sunset Limited” was his suggestion to Bozeman Actors Theatre for a play that would feature a diverse cast, but not a prohibitively large one.

ben Leubner, left, and Carlo Campbell rehearse “The Sunset Limited” for the first time in person in bozeman on Feb.

Fri 2/17

Way Out West Fashion Night at The Jump

@ 5pm / $10

Feb 17th - Feb 18th

A western inspired night of fash‐ion, country music and dancing.

The Jump Restaurant & Market‐place, 75770 Gallatin Road, Gal‐latin Gateway mtcountrydance@ gmail.com, 406-570-7422

The Sunset Limited @ 6:30pm / $25

Feb 17th - Feb 26th

Bozeman Actors Theatre an‐nounces an upcoming production of Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited, Friday through Sunday, February 17-19, and 24-26, 2023 at 6:30pm each evening. Fraternal Order of the Eagles, Bozeman

Aerie #326, 316 East Main Street, Bozeman. mehlchris@hot mail com, 406-581-4992

Lola Kirke

@ 7pm

The Elm, 506 S 7th Ave, Bozeman

Suzy Bogguss @ 7:30pm

The Ellen Theatre, 17 W Main St, Bozeman

Verge Theater Presents Cabaret

@ 7:30pm / $35

Daring, provocative and exuber‐antly entertaining, the musical Cabaret explores the dark and heady life of Bohemian Berlin as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. 111 S Grand Ave, 111 South Grand Av‐enue, Bozeman. info@vergethe ater com

Nitepunk @ Club Zebra

@ 8pm Zebra Cocktail Lounge, 321 E Main St, Bozeman

Sat 2/18

Montana State Bobcats

Womens Basketball vs.

Montana Grizzlies

Womens Basketball

@ 2pm

Brick Breeden Fieldhouse, 1 Bob‐cat Circle, Bozeman

1st Annual Big Sky Winter Market

crafters, cottage goods, and other mountain made businesses Residence Inn by Marriott Big Sky/The Wilson Hotel, 145 Town Center Avenue, Big Sky info@ bigskytowncenter com

6901 Goldenstein Lane, Boze‐man. doubleboyd@aol com, 406580-2559

Sean Devine: Words and Music

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@ 5pm

A gathering of local artisans,

BFS Pre‐sents the 2023 Os‐car-Nom‐inated

Shorts: Animation, Live-Action & Documentary

@ 6pm / $6-$19.75 Feb 18th - Feb 19th

For the 15th season, BFS screens all 3 categories of the Oscar-Nominated Shorts. Make it a full Shorts week-end with us or just catch your favorite program. Plus, don't miss our Annual Oscar Con‐test! Ellen Theatre, 17 West Main Street, Boze‐man. lisa@bozeman�lmso ciety.org, 406-581-2188

Notorious BOZ! A long form improv show with Erin and Genevieve from Raison D'etre Dance Project

@ 7pm / $15

Notorious BOZ is a long-form im‐prov show that celebrates the city of Bozeman, its history and its in‐credible citizens Last Best Com‐edy, 321 East Main Street, Boze‐man. info@lastbestcomedy com, 406-570-7766

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Bozeman Folklore Society Valentine Dance

@ 7:30pm / $12

For all dances we provide live mu‐sic and callers, all ages are wel‐come, and partners are not re‐quired Eagle Mount Bozeman,

@ 7:30pm

Blue Slipper Theatre, 113 E Cal‐lender St, Livingston

Brandon Hale and the Dirty Shame at The Corral @ 8pm

The Corral Steakhouse & Saloon, 42895 Gallatin Rd, Gallatin Gate‐way Inn Park

Sun 2/19

North Circular presented by the Bozeman Doc Series @ 7pm / $10

The Bozeman Doc Series pre‐sents the award-winning new �lm, North Circular, a musical docu‐mentary chronicling life along the fabled North Circular Road through Dublin. Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture, 111 South Grand Avenue, Bozeman. jason@ devolution�lms org

Railroad Earth @ 7:30pm

The Elm, 506 S 7th Ave, Bozeman

Three Minute Thesis Competition @ 4pm

The Three Minute Thesis Compe‐tition will be held on 2/21/23 from 4-5:30 pm in the Procrastinator Theater on the MSU campus where grad students will quickly present their thesis to a general audience Procrastinator Theater, 751 West Grant Street, Bozeman. clstmt@montana.edu

Bone Dry Comedy Hour

Open Mic @ 8pm

Bone Dry Comedy brings Open Mic night to Last Best Comedy

Our weekly open mic is a sup‐portive place to start your com‐edy journey, try new material, and connect to the Bozeman Stand up scene. Last Best Comedy, 321 East Main Street, Bozeman. info@ lastbestcomedy com, 406-5707766

PechaKucha Night

@ 6:40pm / $9

Tom Dickson, PK veteran and longtime editor of Montana Outdoors, is back with a presentation about why wildlife attack people, yet do it so rarely.

Tom is one of 11 presen‐ters at the next PK Night. Ellen Theatre, 17 West Main Street, Bozeman. lar rysterne@gmail.com, 207632-1954

Wed 2/22

Business Lunches: SCORE @ 1:30pm

Learn more about SCORE Boze‐man. edevries@bozeman.net, 406-582-2410

PechaKucha Night @ 6:40pm / $9

Tom Dickson, PK veteran and longtime editor of Montana Out‐doors, is back with a presentation about why wildlife attack people, yet do it so rarely Tom is one of 11 presenters at the next PK Night. Ellen Theatre, 17 West Main Street, Bozeman. larrysterne@ gmail com, 207-632-1954

Sam Barber supporting Tanner Usrey @ 7pm Rialto Bozeman, 10 W Main St , Bozeman

Top 10 Bestsellers at Cactus Records

A Con‐versation with Dmitry Muratov, 2021 No‐bel Peace Prize winner @ 7:30pm / $8-$18

1) Mac Miller - Watching Movies with the Sound Off

2) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

3) Tyler Childers - Countr y Squire

Dmitry Muratov, a free speech activist and 2021 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, will speak at Montana State University. Strand Union Building, 751 West Grant Street, Bozeman cmcspadden@ montana.edu, 406-9947667

Thu 2/23

4) Sylvan Esso - No Rules Sandy

5) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

6) Deftones - Around the Fur

Lecture Series at the MOR - Amanda Hendrix-Ko‐moto 'Making Native Kin' @ 6pm

7) Zach Bryan - American Heartbreak

8) Rainbow Kitten

Making Native Kin: Religion, Inter‐racial Adoption, and the Politics of Assimilation in the 19th Century Museum of the Rockies, 600 West Kagy Boulevard, Bozeman. info@ extremehistoryproject.org

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9) Paramore - This Is Why

10) Led Zeppelin - IV

Wildlife Crossings: Explor‐ing solutions to prevent wildlif vehi l collisi

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Bozeman.

gallatinvalleyearthday@ gmail.com, 406-595-5976

Montana State Bobcats Mens Basketball vs. Sacramento State Hornets Mens Basketball @ 7pm Brick Breeden Fieldhouse, 1 Bob‐cat Circle, Bozeman

A Con‐versation with Dmitry Muratov, 2021 No‐bel Peace Prize winner @ 7:30pm / $8-$18

Fri 2/24

Happy Hour Open Mic @ 5pm

Dmitry Muratov, a free speech activist and 2021 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, will speak at Montana State University. Strand Union Building, 751 West Grant Street, Bozeman. cmcspadden@ montana.edu, 406-9947667

Join us for Happy Hour Open Mic with host Jon Jacobs! The perfect end of the week activity. Grab your of�ce mates and come try your hand at some comedy. Sign-ups start at 4:30pm Last Best Com‐edy, 321 East Main Street, Boze‐man info@lastbestcomedy com, 406-570-7766

'Lonely Hearts' Poetry Slam Competition @ 6:30pm

Top 10 Bestsellers at Country Bookshelf

1) “The Last Green Valley” by Mark Sullivan, $15.95

This free event is open to the pub‐lic! The emcee will open the event with readings of world-famous love poetry, then the slam con‐sists of three rounds. Contest Winners get a cash prize! Steep Mountain Teahouse, 402 East Main Street, Bozeman manager@ steepmtntea com, 406-577-2740

2) “The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” by Stuart Turton, $16.99

Birds of Play @ 7pm

3) “Lesson in Chemistr y” by Bonnie Garmus, $29

Bozeman Folklore Society, Boze‐man

4) “Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan, $20

5) “Moon Rising” by Tui T Sutherland, $12.99

Verge Theater Presents Cabaret @ 7:30pm / $35

6) “Gotta Go, Buffalo” by Haily & Kevin Meyers, $16.99

7) “All About Love” by bell hooks, $16.99

8) “The Myth of Normal” by Gabor Mate, $30

Daring, provocative and exuber‐antly entertaining, the musical Cabaret explores the dark and heady life of Bohemian Berlin as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich 111 S Grand Ave, 111 South Grand Av‐enue, Bozeman info@vergethe ater.com

9) “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, $17

SPOT: Scott Pemberton O Theory @ 8pm

10) “A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki, $18

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There is something for everyone on foodie TV this week

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That’s certainly the case in the season opener titled “Breakfast That Pops,” as giants Kelloggs and Post duke it out for dominance in the first meal of the day with such readymade products as corn flakes, Pop-Tarts, Special K and Grape Nuts. Adam Rich returns as host.

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For many years, Western series were a basic part of television ... and for all of them that came and went, some developed a following that kept them staples of the medium. One such show was “Gunsmoke,” and Decades serves a big helping of it with a weekend-spanning “Binge” marathon starting Saturday, Feb. 25. While many viewers might be used to the show in a one-hour format, these are earlier episodes that ran a half-hour each ... and were syndicated originally under the title “Marshal Dillon,” after the name of James Arness’ legendary character Matt Dillon. That lawman tries to keep Dodge City safe, with help from such allies as saloonkeeper Miss Kitty (Amanda Blake) and Doc Adams (Milburn Stone). The premiere was introduced by John Wayne, who had worked with Arness in movies and recommended that he star in the series.

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“We like that Bozeman is changing in that way,” he said. “We wanted to contribute to that. We wanted to do a play that is diverse in its cast, but that’s obviously not an easy thing to do in Bozeman.”

Leubner did not intend to perform in “The Sunset Limited” but was convinced to take on the role by director Nnamdi Kanaga. Kanaga moved from his hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, to Bozeman in 2018 to attend graduate school at Montana State University. While living in Montana, he wrote and directed “Hail Mary,” the first film made in the state to feature an all-black cast. Leubner was featured in another of Kanaga’s films.

“The Sunset Limited” marks Kanagas first foray as a director of live theater. Though Campbell exits the room when talk turns to the film of the same name starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson, Kanaga went straight to the screen after reading the script. He is drawn to the play for its subtlety, going beyond the physical acting into a more thoughtful realm.

“Being a black person and being a white person affect you in different ways, but the first thing is we’re humans and we are dealing with these things like suicide, like death, loss, pain, loneliness,” Kanage said.

A difference in race is evident in the play’s characters, but more importantly, the two men are split ideologically. Black is an ex-con who found god after surviving a brutal prison fight in which he lost half his blood. His god, however, lives outside the bible in front of him. What the book tells is written on the human heart, he says.

White is a secular humanist who seems to have lost faith in even that. He is in despair, not understanding why he has been saved from an end, from

IF YOU GO ...

b ozeman actors Theatre presents Cormac McCarthy’s “The Sunset Limited” at 6:30 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, Feb. 17-19 and 24-26, upstairs at the e agles Club in downtown b ozeman. Tickets are $25 for adults and $12 for students. The show is recommended for adult audiences only, with adult language, violent expressions and discussion of suicide and alcoholism.

nothingness.

“It’s not like this man is white and this man is black,” Campbell said. “It’s so much more existentially inclined than it is artificial race construct inclined.”

Leubner’s character is also a professor. Campbell and his character both refer to their counterparts by the title, though “Professor” sounds much more casual when directed toward Leubner and not White.

Black and White also contrast in their approach to life, one with

hope and the other with despair.

“Life is all around you, ’cept you don’t see nothing but the shadow,” Black says.

“The Sunset Limited,” is a reference to the passenger train and in the script alludes to the idea of going off into the sunset or the end of life. Does the play end that way? We don’t know, and a resolution may not be as necessary as the conversation weaves in a variety of somewhat taboo subjects among people who have just met. They speak of religion, of substance abuse, of crime and of suicide. Of life

and death.

“You don’t typically see two people, you know older white men, older black men sit down and actually engage in topics like this where both of them

allow themselves space for grace and understanding and just listening,”

“It’s a beautiful play ... It’s very expressive. It’s funny. It’s educative. It’s thought-provoking.”

Kanaga said.

PHOTOS by raCHeL HerGe TT FOr THe CHrONiCLe ben Leubner and Carlo Campbell, also above, rehearse “The Sunset Limited.

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5) What manufacturer has the most Daytona 500 victories?

6) What driver has the most career starts in the Daytona 500?

7) Who holds the record for the fastest average race speed?

8) Who has the most career starts from the pole position?

9) Who has the most career wins from the pole position?

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Cindric primed for a repeat at Daytona

To say that the 2022 NASCAR Cup season was an eventful one for Austin Cindric would be an understatement.

It began in impressive fashion at the Daytona 500. Making making only his eighth Cup start, the new driver of the No. 2 Penske Ford ran with the leaders most of the day and led the final eight laps, before holding off Bubba Wallace at the finish line for the win. In the ensuing celebration, the rookie shredded a tire and broke his starter while doing a burnout and had to be pushed to Victory Lane.

But his triumph was significant in a number of ways. At 23, he became the second-youngest driver (behind 20-year-old Trevor Bayne in 2011) to win the “Great American Race” and the ninth to take his first Cup victory in the February season opener.

And while it turned out to be his only win of 2022, it was not the end of his successes. He would go on to win the pole the following week at Auto Club Speedway and finish 12th in that race, putting him in the series points lead and making him just the second rookie (after Jimmie Johnson in 2002) to lead the points standings in consecutive weeks.

On the season, he’d finish 12th in points and qualify for the playoffs but was eliminated in the Round of 12. Rookie of the Year honors would follow.

Now, he’ll begin this season in pursuit of his second Cup victory when he’ll be in the 40-car field taking on the 2.5-mile tri-oval in the 2023 Daytona 500, airing from Daytona International Speedway Sunday, Feb. 19, on Fox.

FULL NAME: Austin

Louis Cindric

BIRTH DATE: Sept. 2, 1998

BIRTHPLACE: Columbus, Ohio

HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6 feet, 5 inches/170 pounds

CAR: No. 2 Ford

TEAM: Penske

NASCAR CUP WINS: 1

TOP 10S: 10

POLES: 1

HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: 2020

Xfinity Series and Regular Season champion; 2022 Cup Rookie of the Year

DID YOU KNOW: Is the son of Team Penske President Tim Cindric and the grandson of former IndyCar team owner Jim Trueman; won bronze racing Global Rallycross Lites at the 2014 X Games in Austin, Texas

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