(13 F, 50 min) Two dedicated bench-warmers of the Darwin Prep field hockey team witness what ought to be an easy victory over Peace Valley Friends Academy while confronting the imminent end of their own relationship. A little Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, a little every-high-school-sports-thing-you-have-ever-seen (only backwards), "The Last Game" poses the question: what's the point...
Project Tag: Comedy
White-Collar Death in the Pink-Collar Ghetto
3 F, 3 M, 1 M or F. 90 minutes. Who killed Mel Stacks (Ph.D., Industrial Aesthetology)? And what's that clogging up the pencil sharpener? A comedy about blackmail, treachery, murder and office supplies.
Liability
2 F, 1 M. 45 minutes. Two temporary clerks work among a maze of document boxes for a product liability lawsuit. As their relationship develops, they discover disturbing facts about the botulism outbreak that gave rise to the case. LIABILITY asks, what are the effects of long-term storage on pickled mushrooms, hasty e-mails, and lifelong...
Women! Live On Stage!
(with Jeannine Coulombe and Lindsay Hockaday). 7 F. 60 minutes. A brief, irreverent history of women in theatre. Music! Dance! Corsets! Places, please!
Chicks in Space
(with Amy Ballestad and Theatre Unbound) 5 F. 45 minutes. A valiant womanoid space-team blasts off in search of brave new worlds.
Homesickness
4 F, 2 M. 90 minutes. It's official: civil war in Hawaii...Rogue engineer seizes phone lines in Dubuque...Society disintegrates (details on the hour), and the only hope rests with Mooti, a roving jack-of-all-trades, and her granddaughter, Kid, raised by a Mom and Dad who don't speak the same language. A comedy about connection and communication,...
It’s All Good
1 M. 25 minutes. Between flights at O'Hare, downsizing analyst Greg Tollefson confronts the consequences of the worst mistake of his life and wishes he had thought to grab an air-sickness bag. Presented at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference (Valdez, AK).
Sherry’s Basement
3 F, 1 M. 70 minutes. "You've been in Afghanistan, I perceive," are the first words spoken to war veteran Jo by Sherry, a brilliant coffee barista with a turn for observation and deduction. The unlikely pair team up against an adversary with a thousand faces - but can they overcome the unspeakable forces that...
Back Up
2 F. 15 minutes. Three weeks after a spectacular fall, it's time for Faye to get back on the ladder. Moira, her partner in We Do Windows, anxiously cheers her on. But before Faye can take that first step, both partners must overcome envy, insecurity, twists of fate, and the disastrous affair of Mrs. Fangboner's...
Let’s Be Real
4 F, 2 M. 90 minutes. Why would a woman feign a love interest? For that matter, why would a clam put a fake fish on its rear end? Within the corporate wilderness of MegaCo, IT technician Chelly Waller sets a lure for copy room manager – and volunteer environmentalist – Pete Moss. A sharp...