June 21, 2024
Silent Billy
Characters PAIGE, woman in her late thirties SONNY, PAIGE’s husband, slightly younger BILLY, PAIGE’s son, SONNY’s stepson, around seven years old Setting Night. Living room in modest, working-class home. Front […]
November 8, 2021
The End of the World as We Know It
Characters TEO TWAWKI, a doomsday prepper possessed by the soul of an onion MALKIN FIRESTONE, a talking cat and a psychiatric nurse practitioner All of the characters can be any […]
March 1, 2018
Blue Love
Cast of Characters STEVE COLLIS, early thirties, from Dublin, a lecturer awaiting his PhD viva. Noncommittal, a “moral coward” who believes himself basically moral. LARRY KEHOE, thirties, history lecturer, an […]
July 1, 2016
Crows in Eden: An American Oratorio for Broken Voices
Is Eden out of time and out of space? —Yeats (“sundown town”: a town or community that has been made and maintained, all-white) Opening soundscape CHORUS LEADER Chorics CHORUS1 There are no […]
March 1, 2016
The Taj Mahal with Ink-Wells (Theatre Guild Office)
Discover Lawrence Langner and Theresa Helburn seated at a handsome desk, looking into a crystal ball. Mr. Langner is dressed as a swami and Miss Helburn as an East Indian […]
July 1, 2014
The Woman Who Was Me
Vine a este mundo con ojos y me voy sin ellos —García Lorca I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad—and to […]
January 1, 2014
God of the Tomcats
A Tragicomic Mystery Play I have seen the Wild White Women . . . — Euripides, The Bacchae, trans. Gilbert Murray Cast of Characters The Gods KRISHNA, dressed in rags, […]
July 1, 2012
Fat Sal’s Café
Cast of Characters FAT SAL BODIEGROTESQUE HEADS Older than Bodie. Slow of speech and movement. Has an air of gravity, worry, duty, sadness.Younger than Fat Sal. Quick and friendly, a […]
October 1, 2011
A House in the North Country
A young African-American man, dead, in a soldier’s uniform. JOSEPH. A young African-American woman, JILL. JOSEPH’S sister. Their MOTHER. JILL and JOSEPH sit on a still-standing porch, behind them—a large […]
October 1, 2010
Another Life
HANDEL is corpulent, elderly, yet strong of voice. He stands at the large window, his hack to us. He is following someone’s movement on the ground, but all that can […]
April 1, 2009
The Oldsmobiles
Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile, a couple anywhere from their late fifties to their late sixties, sit side by side on the scaffolding hanging from the Manhattan Bridge. They look straight […]
January 1, 2007
Sniper Avenue
from the play Returning Characters: CAROLINE, female, early thirties, relief worker TECHNICIAN, female, early twenties, medical technician Setting: Women’s Health and Radiology Center. New York Time: August 2001 [CAROLINE, wearing […]