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Memorial Play (a Rube Goldberg Machine)
Memorial Play (a Rube Goldberg Machine)
Summary:
A woman trying to tell the story of a woman who died. She's already started trying to tell it — so everything's already off to the wrong start. Now the hardest part is remembering.
Cast size: 3 (3f)
Run time: Aprox. 25 minutes
Past productions:
five step skincare routine
five step skincare routine
Summary:
Pietro happens to be a clown, and also happens to be avoiding something from her past, in an attempt to move forward and be a beautiful normal girl who does what she's supposed to. But she can't seem to forget the thing from before, especially after the sudden appearance and disappearance of an old friend, which sends her spiraling into the absurd world around her, full of distorted faces who all seem to want something that she is unable to give.
Cast size: 5-6 (2-3m, 3f)
Run time: Aprox. 120 minutes without intermission.
Past productions:
April 2024, at the Vassar College Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film (non-professional)
Fury
Fury
Summary:
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra are too similar; they both want more than they have, and they’re both willing to do whatever they can in order to get it. Their three children are equally dysfunctional—Orestes is eager to step into his father’s role but lacks the guts required to do it, Electra’s only talents are a reminder of her mother’s failures, and though Iphigenia may have finally found her footing, she seems to have found it in precisely the wrong place. Fury, a contemporary adaptation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, examines fate and ambition; the inescapable web of family, and who gets to play which roles within it; the physical weight of memory, both owned and inherited; and the conditions under which the harshest hatred is always committed against those we love the most.
Cast size: 6 (3m, 3f)
Run time: Aprox. 2 hours with a short intermission.
Past productions:
November 2023, at the Vassar Powerhouse Theater (non-professional)
Holding the Head of Pentheus
Holding the Head of Pentheus
Summary:
Semele died of an ectopic pregnancy, and Agave didn't do anything to help her — she didn't even believe her sister was pregnant in the first place. Now, she finds herself isolated in the cabin where her sister died, with an unusual companion to keep her company: Semele's son, who never existed until Agave made him real. Meanwhile, Agave's own son, Pentheus, wants to get his mother out of his life, once and for all, despite his grandfather's advice. Holding the Head of Pentheus is a contemporary adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae which examines how grief and trauma can give birth to mythology.
Cast size: 5 principal (3m, 2f)
Run time: Aprox. 90 minutes with no intermission.
Past productions:
July 2024, at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (staged reading, non-professional, excerpt)
Hunger Artist
Hunger Artist
Summary:
Failed artist Till can't hold down a job — whether or not he's good at it — but he's also reaching the end of his creative career, unless he can come up with something that grabs the public's attention more than landscape painting. Hunger Artist is a new play inspired by "Ein Hungerkünstler”, a short story by Franz Kafka about an artist whose art is a performance in which he starves himself for 40 day increments. It investigates the nature of art and capitalism, the commodification of the body, and the line between performance and trauma.
Cast size: 4 principal (2m, 2f), plus an ensemble (4+)
Run time: Aprox. 90 minutes with no intermission.
The Last Person On Earth
The Last Person On Earth
Summary:
The Last Person On Earth follows three former college friends, April, Emmett, and Benny, whose complicated interpersonal relationships are dredged up when they reunite at their 5-year college reunion. The play deals with secrets, interpersonal morality, addiction, the purposelessness of young adulthood, and how to navigate the web of memories that connect us to the past.
Cast size: 3 (2m, 1f)
Run time: Aprox. 2 hours with a short intermission.
Past productions:
Public reading February 2024, at the Vassar Mug (non-professional)
MATH TEACHER
MATH TEACHER
Summary:
An interactive magic trick, a possession, and a confession. MATH TEACHER is about self-image, storytelling, and the power teachers have over their young students.
Cast size: 1f
Run time: Aprox. 10 minutes
Coin
Coin
Summary:
Three women fight for the right to cross the rivers of the underworld.
Cast size: 3 (3f)
Run time: Aprox. 15 minutes
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