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Inside the Head of Mimp

This play is a cheeky lens into the dangers of scientific curiosity and our boundless hunger for knowledge. Framed like a science presentation, we’ll learn all about the Balloonie People of Planet 14.7892. The lead scientist will tell us about the 12 years of research their team did on little Mimp and her elder the Grand Boob. We'll learn about the planet’s flora and fauna and examine the Balloonies' ability to inflate their heads to the size of air balloons and float away. And we'll leave the presentation even more proud to call ourselves humans!

But how did little Mimp become the last surviving member of her species, and where's the rest of the scientist's entire research team? As the presentation goes on, we learn that the boundless wonders of scientific curiosity may have some serious consequences for the subjects of said curiosity.

With themes of colonization, diaspora, xenophobia, and displacement, this is a play as much about those big dangerous human acts as it is about the small personal ones that make us “human.”

Light & Živý

Inspired by folklore from different cultures around the world, this is a play about the stories we tell ourselves when we're at our most vulnerable. River, Lilith, and Dino are strangers in a hospital, brought together by Sunny, a dying patient. They struggle to connect with the world around them, but Sunny’s death brings them closer to not only one another but their own understandings of themselves.

** This play is a companion to Dark & Černý: same hospital, same central event - but four different characters and written with a completely different style, structure, and form.

Dark & Černý

This surreal little play is about the myths we tell ourselves about being human. To anyone watching, Bakar, Erda, Angie, and Margy are various people in a hospital—a doctor, administrator, volunteer, relative—struggling with the recent death of a patient . . . but inside themselves, they are gods and monsters, powerful vicious beings.

Told in 1st -and 3rd- person narrative and without stage directions, Dark & Čern‎‎ý‎‎ offers its characters an unconventional form to voice their inner and outer lives.

** This play is a companion to Light & Živý: same hospital, same central event - but four different characters and written with a completely different style, structure, and form.

Three Challahs Falls From Heaven

A challah falls from Heaven. In a world full of depravation, what can this beautiful braided bread mean? Two little brothers, Whyser and PeaSnap, are shooed out of their home to find food. Orphan Gizzy, a precocious little girl, plays Pirate Queen and battles the grown-ups around her. Vagabonds infiltrate Ma’s apartment building and demand squatters’ rights. Pa sits on an abandoned basketball court and cries. Maybe Auntie Basket, a suspected witch and conjurer, will add some magic to their lives. Or maybe Whyser and PeaSnap need to run away, to escape to the wilds of the countryside, to fully embrace what it means to be alive.

Redundancy

Beryl wakes up in the middle of the woods in the middle of the night, with no memory of who she is or how she got there. She ventures into the mouth of a cave to seek answers. Along with a chorus of bat-like witches, she must not only battle a series of obstacles through the bowels of the cave, she must also face the painful memories of a life that slowly drips back to her. Can she reconcile who she was before and learn to embrace herself for all of her flaws? Or will she be stuck forever in a dark, damp world full of strange cave people, shrieking witches, and terrifying memories?

The Back-to-Back Twinnies

This is the epic-length vaudevillian tragi-comedy (come for the story, stay for the night!) of two conjoined twins who were raised in the circus and go down to the underworld to deal with their parents' divorce. But when a vengeful demon splits them apart and traps the twins in different worlds, they must contend with their individual selves for the first time. And once they find their ways back to one another, will they be able to restart their lives with love and happiness, or will they let power, devastation and trauma control them?

BUGGED.

BUGGED. is a family drama about the little things that, well, bug us. When Boo hears that her cousin Katherine is coming to visit, she scrambles to get everything in order. There's a spouse to find, children to wrangle, a house to clean, a cake to bake... and some dark secrets to keep well buried. But Katherine's arrival comes with a literal bang! and soon everything starts to come undone, one terrible secret at a time.

The Loneliest Girl in the Multiverse

Enola feels like the loneliest girl in not only the universe, but the entire multiverse. She prays nightly to the stars that other versions of herself will find her. And one day, they do. But when the twin of one of her “copies” warns of an impending danger, Enola experiences the true brutality of loneliness: even surrounded by multiples of herself, she still must fight to be an individual.

Spring Following on the Heels of Winter

The War of Women

Imagine a brutal battle between the Sirens and the Muses from Greek mythology. All of the men have gone off to war, and suddenly Alexander, the last man alive, returns via a brutal accident. As with all myths, the start of this tale brings more hope, but also tragedy and grief. As the young Muses vow to nurse Alexander back to life, the blind Sirens sing their ancient songs and hunt down the Muses, systematically killing them one by one. It’s a battle between birth and rebirth, curiosity and wisdom, hope and realism. At the end Festilia, the Muse of Comedy, cries “This isn’t funny anymore!” And really, when we think about it, is any myth funny? Even when we laugh, we cry. To feel joy is to mourn, and to live is to die.

Alberto

This pastiche operetta is inspired by the fictional rivalry between Mozart and Salieri. Alberto, the Mozart character musician is Alberto, is a musical genius but his voice is eerily silent, which drives his wife Constantly nuts. He’s been called to the Court of Great Italics to work on a new Spring Ball Symphony with the Court Musician, the bitterly jealous Caesar, the Court Musician. It’s a race to the final aria as masterpieces fly and misunderstandings grow.