FULL LENGTH PLAYS Timely and urgent, confronting the role of women in the military and the dangers the new U.S. president and his administration are indifferent to. — A former Army officer (now lawyer) reluctantly takes on a military sexual assault case, re-opening old wounds, and forcing her to confront her past, along with the real meaning of "code of honor". PREMIERING this spring at Geva Theatre. 4W, 2M. 2 acts, 2 hours. SOME OF THE PEOPLE, ALL OF THE TIME (new) A sexy tango of a play. — Who's lying and who's telling the truth is upended again and again as the director of a major art museum falls in love with a woman who may or may not be an art forger.
2W, 2M. 2 acts, 2 hours. SPLITTING INFINITY God, science, the overlap between them, and the wedges that keep them apart, wrapped in a love story. — A Nobel prizewinning astrophysicist goes after evidence of God, through physics, jeopardizing her 40 year friendship with her best friend-- a Rabbi that's been in love with her since they were 10-- and the post- doc she's having an affair with, also the son of a Christian scientist. 3W, 3M. 2 acts, 2 hours. WAVING GOODBYE Loss, grief, change, making art, wishing things were different, finding love, not turning into your mother, and those irrevocable moments after which nothing is ever the same. — A 17 year old photographer loses her father in a mountain climbing accident, and spends her 17th year with the mother who abandoned her. 3W, 2M. 2 acts, 2 hours. THE COURT JESTER (new) Musical adaptation of the 1959 film starring Danny Kaye (bookwriter). Lindsay Jones, music and lyrics. 13+ actors. 2 acts, 2 hours. THE RETURN TO MORALITY Bracingly current. — A liberal college professor writes a scathing satire of the far right. His plan? Lay out the most outrageously racist, homophobic, sexist, isolationist ideas, build the American people into a lather, THEN reveal his liberal cred... too late. His book is published non-fiction and before he knows it, he's heralded as a hero by all those he sought to skewer, and far over his head in a maelstrom of his own good intentions. 3W, 3M, 2 acts, 100 minutes. AURORA'S MOTIVE Mother. Daughter. Feminism. Murder. The true story of Aurora Rodriguez and the prodigy daughter she raised, educated, worshiped, and ultimately murdered. 3W, 4M. 2 acts, 100 minutes. RACE More urgent and relevant every year. — Adaptation of Studs Terkel's bestseller about race in America. Full length version: 90 minutes, 9 actors (or more, if desired) Educational version for young audiences: 35 minutes, 4-5 actors. THEODORA: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY Historians across the ages (490, 1090, 1590, 1890, and 1990) offer up the "expose" of Theodora, the courtesan, actress and eventual Byzantine Empress alternately painted by history as a despot, romantic heroine, revolutionary, and nymphomaniac. 2W, 4M. 2 acts, 100 minutes. FAMOUS FOR FIFTEEN YEARS A Famous Artist and his acolytes, in their heyday, 1969, and at the Artist's funeral, 1984. 5W, 1M. 2 acts, 100 minutes. CHILDREN OF CAIN A black comedy about three siblings with a curse on their head, and the bible salesman who comes to visit one stormy night. 2W, 5M. 2 acts, 110 minutes. SHORT PLAYS STATUS UPDATE A 10 minute comedy about a man, a woman, and the social network that comes between them. 1M, 1W, 10 minutes HAVE A LITTLE FAITH A mom stands in the synagogue giving her speech to her son the Bar Mitzvah boy... which goes horribly awry. 1W, 10 minutes. BEAR STORY A solo piece for a woman who tells the story of meeting, falling in love and marrying a man in Alaska— while
explaining the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, and perhaps death, at
the hands of a bear. 1W, 12 minutes
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