Full-Length Plays

 

Be Free, Little Teacup Pig

In this bizarre comedy, Reva is unexpectedly tasked with the delivery of a fragile creature to a foreign land. On her journey to deliver a teacup pig, Reva encounters a media frenzy, a man who collects sculptures of heads, and the Taliban. Amidst the chaos, Reva finds that the media, society, and her family are ultimately not within her control, and she must make the decision to either let the world around her to dictate her actions or to release herself from responsibility. 

 

Cast: 2F/3M

Run Time: ~120 minutes

 

Girl Who Wears Her Pants Too High

On her birthday, a young woman resolves to plan a funeral for a man she hardly knows. Acquiring a homeless man and a long lost relative on her way to church, she finds that life is not always as planned as she desires. This wacky journey explores life's issues of control in an often chaotic world.

 

Cast: 2F/3M

Run Time: ~60 minutes

 

Last Seen Alice 

Living in a magical R.V. park, Alice works to return to the place by the river with the red rocks. Alongside a cast of park visitors and immersed in an ever-changing environment, Alice discovers that the act of returning is more complicated than she ever imagined. This play explores the question: Can you ever go back?

 

Cast: 3F/1M

Run Time: ~75 minutes

 

 

 

One-Act Plays

Leaving Rosemary’s Sheets 

When Rosemary covers her windows in white sheets, her daughter, Beth, becomes entrapped in the home, as well. Will Beth become her mother?

 

Cast: 2F

Run Time: ~20 minutes

 

Mary Makes a Cake and Eats It All (3F/ 3M)

When Sudden Mary refuses to turn fifty, her friend Helen, a group of Birthday Nymphs, the AARP salesman, her deceased mother and father, and Abraham Lincoln all join forces to help Sudden Mary accept aging.  (A play loosely inspired by my mother’s favorite book, the 1964 children’s novel Mary Makes a Cake by Emma L. Brock.)

 

Cast: 3F/3M

Run Time: ~25 minutes

 

Seven Violet Marbles

In the time leading up to her journey, a young woman receives a red umbrella from her mother as she struggles to collect violet marbles in a patriarchal society reinforced by entitled men and competitive women.

 

Cast: 4F/1M

Run Time: ~25 minutes

 

Super Lumper

Three women play a game of “hot potato” during the Irish Potato Famine.

 

Cast: 3F/1M

Run Time: ~20 minutes

 

 

 

Short Plays

(All Short Plays have a run time of 10 minutes or less.)

 

After the Chicken Dance (1F/1M)

A man and a woman in a hotel room after a wedding reception. Things get weird.

 

Chainsaw Meet Bark (1F/1M)

Susan uses a chainsaw to end her engagement to Mark.

 

Christopher Durang Goes Missing (3F/1M)

Playwright Christopher Durang is held captive in a basement by three women.

 

Eating Air (2F)

Allison struggles to help Meg live in the present, but Meg’s desire to remember may steal from Allison’s last moments.

 

Hipsters Throw Cats (2F)

Does throwing cats make a cool kid?

 

I’m Skinnier When I’m Drunk (2F/2M)

When the collective male voice is heard, Maddie wants to join, but she is trapped in an apartment with a broken door. How will Maddie escape to join the males at Chilis?

 

Jacobson’s Organ  (1F/1M)

A recent female graduate interviews for a position in academia. Her interviewer, however, uses a both unusual and questionable tactic to decipher if she is right for the job.

 

My Sister Compulsively Mows Other People’s Lawns (1F/1M)

Getting Jane to admit to a good deed is harder than Bennett imagines.

 

The Resurgence of Ethel (6F)

With the help of a Baby Chorus, a maternity ward nurse struggles to convince a new mother to allow her quadruplets their own identities.

 

The Rise of Robopanda (1F/1M)

On their two year anniversary, Norah expects a traditional gift. She gets Robopanda.

 

The Soul of a Magical Unicorn (1F/1M)

Unicorn battles Lance for her jar of magical soul, which Lance plans to sell on Craigslist.

 

When Old Ms. Eula Mae Calls (1F/1M)

Seventeen-year-old Young Joe seeks advice from 105 year-old Old Ms. Eula Mae. She responds only through duck call.

 

 

 

The Departure Plays: A Collection of Short Comic Plays about Death

Getting Over Grace (2M/1F)

When Rhen invites an internet date to his girlfriend’s funeral, things go awry.

 

Jim’s Last Dirge (2F/1M)

Matt attends the funeral of a co-worker’s father. He is tasked with fulfilling the deceased man’s final wish.

 

Lunch Boxes of Anthrax (1F/2M)

With the help of an obituary editor, Randy conspires to have his wife select a life insurance policy at three in the morning.

 

Password Then Panda (2M)

Nephew Austin wants to read the final letter left for him by his deceased father, but Uncle Dan has lost the letter. Will Nephew Austin ever hear the words of his dying father? Kind of.