Full-Length Plays:
RUTH AND THE SEA
Ruth has terminal cancer and wants to see the ocean one last time before she dies. Her family believes she's on the path to remission. But Ruth knows she's running out of time. When her heroin-addicted grandson, Noel, offers her a ride to the coast the adventure begins!
Cast: 2 men, 3 women. Multiple locations -- simple set. 65 minutes.
THE WIDOW WEST
It’s 1850 and San Francisco is in the throes of Gold Fever. Billy, a naive prospector, is trying to make his fortune. In a city of 30,000 men all clobbering each other to get ahead how does a young man on his own survive? By becoming a woman of course!
Cast: 4 men, 3 women. Simple set. 130 minutes.
MAIDRID'S BOW, An Amazon Tale
Drawn by a force she does not understand, the Amazon girl Maidrid secretly befriends Fars, a boy from across the river. Soon the couple is hunted in a battle of the sexes that threatens the foundation of their society.Can young love survive the fury of the Goddess?
Cast: 4 men, 4 women. Multiple locations. 135 minutes.
THE SCRATCH
Three generations of women wrestle with the boogie man invading their lives. Ledith is pregnant and must confront "The Sandman" who seduces her each night in her sleep. Arlene is trying to capture the ghost of her father, whom she sees flickering in the eyes of her boyfriend when they make love. Estelle must face the ultimate battle of her life with "The Scratch". Driving down the highway in her station wagon with the dug up bones of her daughter and mother, she is ready.
Cast: 3 women. Simple sets representing multiple locations. 45 minutes.
THE ONSLOW PROJECT
This play is a ghost story. Dr. Harry Onslow brings his recently drowned wife back to life, using scientific techniques they had previously been developing together. What comes back to life, however, is nothing like what they expected. How do we come to terms with mortality? When does science, in the name of "progress" go too far? These are some of the ever-troubling questions posed in this suspenseful new play.
Cast: 1 man, 2 women. Unit set. 95 minutes
NYMPH O' MANIA
When Jack agrees to sell his land, several thousand acres of prime forest, to a multinational lumber company all hell breaks loose at his wedding party. Throw some hallucinogenics into the punch bowl and Jack finds himself in the custody of a beautiful tree nymph while being pursued by the wedding party, which includes his jilted bride. An outrageous romp in the woods ensues, settling the fate of the forest and the lovers once and for all.
Cast: 3 men, 3 women. Two sets. 80 minutes.
“Here I can be the voice and face of this tree, and for the whole forest that can’t speak for itself…”—Julia Butterfly Hill
ARRIVEDERCI ROMA
When Mafioso boss, Alfredo Reggiano, is invited by his competitor and rival, Roma Asiago, to talk “business” Alfredo knows he should be prepared for anything. But nothing has prepared him for the shock he’s about to face when Roma reveals her ultimate reason for meeting him.
Cast: 3 women, 2 men. Multiple locations. 75 minutes.
"Great food has the ability to transcend all things..." --Martha Stewart
THE SPIDER'S BANQUET
Everson, an international assassin, must make a choice on his last deadly mission to the desert. Will he be able to reprogram and retrain his protégé and lover, Adam, or will he execute him? Will he free his colleague from her exile or will he leave her there to diminish? Will his photography capture "the essence of all things" on film or will it eventually become the chronicle of his own death as he foresees? Cast: 4 men, 1 woman. Multiple locations. 80 minutes.
AGE OF ANXIETY
When Katharine Wellman takes over as president of the National Christian Council in 1994 she is determined to carve out a conservative “new philosophy” for U.S. families. Meanwhile her own family is struggling with the very issues that divide the country. Her son, Robert, has become an atheist; her grandson has announced he has a boyfriend and her granddaughter, a hemophiliac, is dying of AIDS. This play examines the meaning of “family” within the context of the American political landscape.
3 men, 5 women. Multiple locations. 150 minutes.
THE MONTANA STAR
Ben and Helen are a brother-sister team producing some of the hottest movies in Hollywood. He directs. She acts. Together they create compelling movies based on stories from their lives. When they decide to shoot their latest film on location, at their estranged mother’s ranch in Montana, old tensions heat up, musical beds ensue and a lot of secrets are revealed.
3 men, 3 women. Multiple locations. 120 minutes.
THE CAMPUS ROSE
When James gets a football scholarship into college he takes a room at Peter’s house off-campus. We follow James as he maneuvers through a menagerie of colorful characters: Jane the neo-feminist who has entered the campus beauty contest, Simon a math genius who loves sports, Carol a wannabe Jewish princess, who cleans houses on the side, and advises all the sorority girls on what to wear, Peter the gleaming president of student affairs on campus who suffers from alcoholic rages, Judy the college drama star whose career is quickly taking over her studies and Mary “the campus whore” who has psychic capabilities that surprise everyone.
4 men, 5 women. Unit set. 125 minutes. |
