THE GREEN
2 F, 3 M (with doubling). Chimp drama. 110 pages.
Leeann is an American veterinarian who just got her dream job: managing a chimpanzee sanctuary in Africa. Surrounded by poachers, antagonistic adolescent chimps, and an eccentric boss, she finds it difficult to balance caring for animals and caring for people. With human allegiances unraveling and chimps running a wild mock, the line between animals and humans dissolves under the canopy of the African jungle.
STRANGE POETRY
1 F, 4 M (with doubling). Bitter-sweet. 90 pages.
Allen Ginsberg likes Peter Orlovsky. Peter Orlovsky likes… well… girls. Over the course of four decades and across four continents, Allen and Peter compromise. A play about regret and longing.
THE CUTTING FLOOR
3 F, 3 M. Comedy. 90 pages.
Leonard is an extremely successful movie producer. He is filming what he hopes will be the worst movie of all time. Victor is an extremely successful theater critic. He is pretending to be a regular Joe because he thinks that will help him win friends and influence people.
Leonard, meet Victor. He wants to be in your movie. Only one of you will make it out alive.
A play about aging and critical revenge.
M’S ORPHANAGE
4 F, 4 M. A play for dance-theater. 34 pages.
Based on the gruesome tales of Struwwelpeter, the story is about five orphans, forced to pretend that every day is Christmas, hoping that Santa will bring them parents. But for the past several years, they’ve got nothing but coal. They must be bad children… at least that’s what the borderline-evil Miss M brainwashes them to think. The orphanage is a house of torment for these children, and the worst is yet to come.
GOOD NIGHT HIGH NOON
1 F, 1 M. Cowboy noir. 7 pages.
Mama done a bad bad thing. Her son’s gotta pay for it.
THE OASIS
1 F, 2 M. Comedy. 27 pages.
A young couple gets lost in the desert. Andrew hallucinates and learns about love; Savannah finds something special that doesn’t involve Andrew. They give away their camel in despair but make it to Niagara Falls in the end.
MUSIC VIDEO
1 F, 2 M, 2 flexible casting. Comedy. 11 pages.
A teenage female singer-songwriter butts heads with the director of her music video; background singers sing sha-la-las. Love and unemployment make sudden appearances. Features music and lyrics by Sam T. Reich and Amos Rosenstein (of WALRI).
A LONG-FORGOTTEN COUPLE
1 F, 1 M, 1 flexible casting. Comedy. 10 pages.
An older couple discovers that love is what keeps us civilized. When it fades, relationships stagnate, we all turn to animals, and only stagehands can get us through.
HOTEL PARADISO
3 M. Dark Comedy. 9 pages.
A tourist to the third world gets stuck in a revolution and caught up in his waiter’s identity crisis.
FLOAT
2 F, 2 M. Satire. 10 pages.
Four eco-activists get uncomfortably close to nature when they hijack an ice floe in the arctic.
CORPSE
2 M. Dark. 9 pages.
A young boy dies in a wilderness accident. A police investigator finds the body, but isn’t so sure he wants to report the boy’s death.
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Cara Siegel, Neima Jahromi, Jesse Van Buren, Matt Kendall, and Audrey Davidson in 'Music Video.' March 2008, Reed College.
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