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Anaconda Ensemble Theatre is gearing up for auditions for its third production: The Montana Premiere Project!
The Montana Premiere project is a state-wide project focused on new plays by Montana playwrights. Anaconda Ensemble Theatre will host 3 new plays in Anaconda while being supported by the Montana Playwrights Network.
This show in Anaconda, which will run at the Forge Hotel the weekend of Feb 24th - 26th, is composed of three short plays by Montana playwrights: Teacher Swears - LIVE FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING by Robert Holter of Helena, That's What She Said by Cynthia Webb of Helena and Wife by Shaun Gant of Missoula.
There are several ways to audition:
1) AET will be taking Rolling VIDEO SUBMISSIONS will be accepted from now to January 8th. (from the comfort of your home!).
2) Live auditions in Anaconda, MT January 7th and 8th from 11 am to 2 pm at the Discover Anaconda Building in Anaconda (118 E. 7th St. Anaconda MT).
3) Live auditions in Butte, MT January 7th from 3:15 to 4:30 pm at the Butte Library (226 W. Broadway
Butte, MT
4) ZOOM/GoogleMeet LIVE Auditions January 8th from 3 to 5 pm (from the comfort of your home!)
AET is meant to be a community-based, professional theatre company. We welcome actors who are working professionals as well as amateur actors looking to try their hands in the theater arts. Auditions are for ages 8 - 10 and up, including teens and we do need young people for these shows!! But a waiver will be required for those under the age of 18, due to langue and content of the shows.
To audition, send an email to
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December 26, 2022
By Eric Tegethoff - Producer, Contact News
Big Sky Connection -- The new Montana Constitution was created in 1972, but is facing the prospects of changes in the upcoming legislative session. An organization known as the Friends of the Montana Constitution has been formed to educate the public about this document. Comments from Evan Barrett, co-founder and vice chair, Friends of the Montana Constitution.
Eric Tegethoff
December 26, 2022
Fifty years after its creation, and under increasing criticism from some lawmakers, an organization has been created to increase awareness of the Montana Constitution.
Mae Nan Ellingson, one of the founding members of the Friends of the Montana Constitution, was the youngest delegate at the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention.
The group it is set to replace, the Constitutional Convention Society, was formed after the 1972 convention wrapped up, and is set to dissolve after the death of the final delegate. Only 10 of the original 100 are still alive.
Evan Barrett, co-founder and vice chair of the group said the new organization will take up the society's mantle.
"We just felt there was a need, given the import of the Constitution, its 50th anniversary, the reducing size of the society, to go ahead and get something that was open to the broader public to participate in support of the Constitution," Barrett explained.
The organization is a nonprofit and nonpartisan, and aimed at educating and increasing the public's understanding of the 1972 Constitution. Critics countered the organization is not nonpartisan, as it claims, and has a political agenda.
Barrett noted the state Constitution guarantees 17 protections to Montanans not in the U.S. Constitution.
"Power was shifted in the new Constitution from corporate dominance to citizen power, and that's what makes it a really particularly unique Constitution," contended.
Rep. Derek Skees, R-Kalispell, among the constitution's detractors, called it a "socialist rag" in need of changes.
But Barrett argued Montana's constitution is renowned around the country for its robust protections.
"Some constitutional change is OK, some is needed," Barrett acknowledged. "A lot is not, and when there's nefarious purposes for things that would not serve the interests of the broader population of Montana, many Montanans will rise up and speak against those."
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