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REVIEWS
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"The play is absorbing, pansexual and preversely
funny...I laughed a lot!"
--David Pace, The City Weekly
"Provocative and well-written...this play is about people who push each
other past the limits of evil...I was on the edge of my seat." --Katy
Wayment, Chronicle Entertainment
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PLAYS:
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! A blonde wig, a
fancy dress and a “sweet disposition” transform Billy into
the most eligible girl in town. But Billy has more than he
bargained for when he finds himself fighting off the insatiable lusts
of some of the most prominent citizens of San Francisco. How do
you entertain Sam Brannan when Adolph Sutro is hiding in your
closet? How long can you fight off marriage proposals by
the drunken Jasper O’Farrell…who is, uh, already
married? And what about that dangerous gunslinger, Wiley
West, who seems to be on to the truth?
Cast: 3 men, 4 women. Simple set. 120
minutes.
MAIDRID'S BOW, An Amazon Tale
When Maidrid lends her crossbow to
a young man from the
other side of the river, she is breaking a taboo that will unravel her
society. A mythical island where
men and women
live strictly segregated lives. A realm where plants
and animals
speak directly to people. An unlikely but extraordinary love story.
Cast: 4 men, 4 women. Multiple locations. 120
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. 120 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.
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