Performance Schedule

All performances will be at the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO.

• Mar 18 (Thu @ 7:00p)
  Name-Your-Price Night
• Mar 19 (Fri @ 7:00p)
• Mar 20 (Sat @ 7:00p)
• Mar 21 (Sun @ 2:00p)
• Mar 25 (Thu @ 7:00p)
  Name-Your-Price Night
• Mar 26 (Fri @ 7:00p)
• Mar 27 (Sat @ 7:00p)
• Mar 28 (Sun @ 2:00p)

T.S. Eliot’s The Confidential Clerk is a masterful blend of drawing-room comedy and profound philosophical inquiry. On the surface, it is a play about mistaken identities and misplaced children: but at its heart, it is a search for identity, inheritance, and the courage to follow one’s true vocation.

Sir Claude Mulhammer, a wealthy financier, believes he has finally found a way to bridge the gap between his public life and his private regrets. By hiring the young, talented Colby Simpkins as his “confidential clerk,” Sir Claude hopes to mentor the man he believes to be his secret, illegitimate son.

The plan is complicated by the arrival of Sir Claude’s eccentric wife, Lady Elizabeth, who is convinced she has a lost son of her own. What follows is a witty, intricate puzzle of family secrets and startling revelations. Eliot uses the framework of a classic farce to ask deeper questions about who we are when the labels of “father,” “son,” or “clerk” are stripped away.

Special Performances

Name-Your-Price Nights
Both Thursday performances
(March 18th & 25th at 7:00 PM)
No tickets or reservations required.
First come, first seated.
Donations accepted by cash, check, or QR code.

Tickets for all other performances must be purchased
through the Dairy Arts Center Box Office.

Post-Show Talkback
There will be a post-show talkback after one of our shows, TBD.
Audience members are invited to stay after the performance to discuss the play and production with cast members and the director.