3 F, 3 M. 60 minutes. In Los Alamos in 1980, a nuclear scientist and his wife convene a dinner party to influence the fate of the free world. In the present day, with all its unprecedented crises, an economist discovers the limitations of rummaging through the past for helpful hints. A tale of surviving...
Project Tag: One-act
That Pankhurst Woman
10-13 F, 3-8 M. 40 min. England, 1913. Leaders of the militant suffragettes are being arrested and tortured. Young activist Grace Roe must decide whether to maintain the movement's commitment to nonviolence, or whether to fight back against the police. A one-act adaptation of The Good Fight, suitable for high-school and socially distanced production.
The Fundamentals, with Mother Antonia McHugh
1 F. 30 minutes. The first president of the College of St. Catherine tests your understanding of what it takes to help other women shine.
The Last Game
(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...
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!
Dog Tag
(with Matthew A. Everett) 3 people. 10 minutes. Ed is out walking his dog Percy, when he runs into ex-lover Paul. Percy may prove an effective go-between for a reconciliation, or the two men may still end up going home alone. A play of second chances, some taken, some not.
lovehateforgive
3 F. 40 minutes. Valerie invites her high-school best friend Bernie to meet her college best friend Karen, and all three are compelled to re-enact the moments when their relationships changed forever. Winner of the Northwestern University Agnes Nixon Playwriting Award.
Grasping
3 F. 20 minutes. In a house where every item is freighted with family stories, a visitor angles for the gift of a hundred-year-old teacup from Moscow, Pennsylvania. Her attempts to get the teacup open a rift between two sisters, the last surviving members of the family, and force them to see what it is...
The Particular Delight of Trigonometry
2 F, 3 M. 80 minutes. Asha comes to an elite boarding school determined that she will one day work on SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. As she rides out the cycles of the school year, she finds she must take on a mission as daunting as any search for aliens: learning to communicate...