Friday, May 18, 2012

Plays

Full Length Plays

Coyote

1F / 2M (and a truck)
© 2010

A play about racism and the dark heart of the border between Mexico and the US.

A young man named Luke joins a “Minuteman” group working protect the United States’ border from illegal immigrants.  Paired on patrol with an older white supremacist

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Ghosting Narcissus

2F / 2M
© 2011

A re-imagining of the Echo and Narcissus myth.

James is a successful academic by most measures: published, tenure, pet neologisms.  He’s also damned attractive, so who can blame him for looking into every mirror he comes across?  When he begins affairs

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If You Start a Fire
[Be Prepared to Burn]

1F / 1M +1?
© 2011

An Internet sex comedy for the Recession Generation.

Lucy and Chris are typical American twenty-somethings struggling to survive the Great Recession with their dignity intact.  They hate their jobs like most everybody else, but they need the insurance

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Iris

from IPHIGENIA 2.0 by Charles Mee
3F / 5M
© 2010

A play about sacrifice, war, love, marriage, and the end of history.

Iris believes it’s her wedding day and couldn’t be happier, but in reality her father has conspired to sacrifice her to appease his demanding soldiery, well meaning men who will only go to war upon seeing their leader offer up that which he holds dearest

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Quiver

3F / 1M
© 2009

A play about Christian patriarchy and a woman’s struggle to escape it.

The Christian patriarchy movement stresses the differences between the sexes, insisting upon woman’s role as “helpmeet” for her man in an attempt to model lives after those of the Old Testament patriarchs.  When Faith, a devoutly submissive mother of seven

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Then Waves

1F / 3M
© 2008

A play about an American soldier who returns from the Middle East with PTSD.

A discharged American soldier returns from war to do violence upon his estranged son, who may not be his at all. Set in the American Midwest, THEN WAVES explores the issues of violence’s echo

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Wolf Cry Wolf 

2 or 4 F / 1M
© 2011

A play about girls who turn into wolves.

When Steph returns home to North Dakota for the first time in years and surprises her estranged childhood friend Jane, they descend into their memories and relive the summer Jane told Steph her deepest secret

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Select Short Plays

Birth Night

2FvM
© 2007

A play about power.

Foot and Mouth are stuck far underground with only one candle left.  Psychosexual strangeness results.

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The Play is Memory

1F / 1M
© 2011

A play about a writer and his muse.

A writer and his apparent muse encounter one another in a room.  When the muse interrupts and insists upon alterations to his script

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Rosemary

2F / 1M
© 2010

A play about Rosemary Clooney and the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy.

Summer, 1968.  Rosemary Clooney, the famous singer, spends a sleepless night while haunted the memory of Senator Robert Kennedy

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Strike

3F / 2M
© 2011

A play about traffic in Austin, Texas.

In front of Whole Foods on Lamar and 6th, one of the busiest intersections in Austin, Texas, a woman in long sleeves meets a man about a strange purchase

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Solomon the King

2M
© 2011

A play about the grown divide.

Estranged brothers, a banker and a leftist, meet one last time

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For the Youth

A Very Stagehand Christmas:
Reindeer Apocalypse Storm!

6F / 2M
© 2011

A holiday comedy about cyborg reindeer, the Fighting Cougar Spirit, and artistic collaboration.

Anywhere High School’s Drama Club is about to stage yet another infamously terrible holiday play by their oft-absent drama teacher, Mr. Colby, when he departs for a sabbatical

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