Drama of a woman struggling with her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease.
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Making Do/Art in Heaven
Synopsis: Memories and regrets weave together a life as the audience watches a woman struggle to move out of a tangled past towards a place of rest.
Read MoreBelinda’s Crush
Belinda and Edie are two drag queens in the deep south. They have just finished a show and are
discussing Belinda’s newest fan.
P’mont & 10th
DIRECTOR
I’m speaking for the playwright, as instructed in his script (holds up, waving, the script) I added a big, burly, beefy, bearded, but muscly bear in a pink tutu to my play. He has no lines, but please be nice to him.
I Hate Fishing
Dylan is eager to get close to his cousin Andrew while Andrew is, well, Andrew doesn’t mind hearing Dylan talk. A lot. In this ten-minute play, silences are long, anecdotes are mildly concerning, and secrets are impending. On a lifeboat in the middle of Lake Michigan, will these two teenage cousins, Dylan and Andrew, ever find a connection with each other, despite a stiff family past, or will it continue to be unbearably awkward between them?
Read MoreLong Distance
At Rise: An abandoned phone booth in a park, most of the plastic/glass has been
removed so we are clearly able to hear the following conversations.
Anniversary
Bella Poynton is a playwright and theatre historian. She’s had more than 40 productions of her plays locally and nationally. Her plays have been published with Samuel French, Broadway Play Publishing, Next Stage Press, Smith & Kraus, Applause, and can be seen in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2024, The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019, The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019, The Weirdest Plays of 2020, and WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters, Fleas on the Dog, Clockhouse, and Jellybucket.
Read MoreTwo Sisters and a Red Lollipop
I had a husband once.
He told me he loved my hair.
(why do they keep calling themselves) arson
The lights come up on a house and two dancers in silhouette. One wears a waistcoat, the other a dress. Maybe: shadows, other figures to come. We watch them as they dance. It is lovely.
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