Plays by Keyword
Plays by Keyword
#GodHatesYou
By Emily Dendinger
Synopsis Laurel has always been the apple of the church’s eye. She’s the first person to volunteer to picket funerals of dead soldiers, knows what to say to strike a nerve in a crowd, and…
And Vaster
By Skye Robinson Hillis
In their fifteen years together, married actors Michael and Corinne have stood by their decision to focus on their respective careers and each other, and to not have children. When Michael is suddenly confronted with a heretofore unknown seventeen-year-old daughter begotten…
Artichoke Hearts
By Sarah Mitchell
Artichoke Hearts cuts into the strange, sadistic state of being in love. Written and performed by Sarah Mitchell in a series of embodied interviews, the show investigates why we bother to look for pieces of…
Berth Breach/Breech Birth
By Inda Craig-Galván
Synopsis During a house call for a pregnant mare, a veterinarian discovers an entire ship filled with enslaved people, inside the horse’s uterus. And one enslaved man sees her, too. Is she imagining it all? Can she…
Brilliant Works of Art
By Donna Hoke
Law student Abby Gates has no qualms about becoming a sugar baby to get her tuition bills paid…until it means keeping a secret from the man she loves, an artist exploring confession and the thresholds…
Butterflies and Margarine
By Oded Gross
Hazel has fallen in love with John. She met John three months prior when she found him naked in a field, unable to remember anything, not who he is, how he got there or any…
Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family
By TyLie Shider
Livestream reading: Friday, October 22, at 6 pm PT On-Demand presentation: October 26–31 Synopsis Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family explores a family’s internal divisions in response to the 1967 Plainfield, New Jersey,…
Cost of Living
By Martyna Majok
Synopsis What is the road that brought us here? Unemployed truck driver Eddie sits at a bar alone, recalling his final moments with wife, Ani, when a car accident turned the focus of their relationship…
Dance of the Fluxons
By Drew Katzman
Is there one defining principle that underlies the behavior of all physical matter? Does it also underlie the behavior of emotional matter? Will Rainbow get to the pre-party? Should dinner be held or served? Is…
Donna Orbits the Moon
By Ian August
Something is not quite right with Donna: She’s a loving mother, a devoted wife, and a minor celebrity to all the bake sale planners in town, but something is making her spacey, and she’s not…
Elevator Girl
By Donna Hoke
Elevator Girl was never meant to be more than an urban legend, a sexual revenge fantasy created by Vanessa and her graphic illustrator boyfriend. But when the comic superhero unleashes her boyfriend’s darkest fantasies, as…
Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, Sometimes
By Franky D. Gonzalez
Synopsis An examination of the inmates within a system trying to discover meaning in the face of isolation and doubt in one’s own worth over a 25-year bid. The play explores familial ties, love, race,…
