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Inside the Head of Mimp

Welcome to a science presentation on the Balloonie People of Planet 14.7892! The scientist will tell us about the 12 years of research they did on little Mimp and her elder the Grand Boob. We'll learn about the flora and fauna of this outer planet and its strange herds of snorgle, which are like an evolutionary cross between a bison and a goose. We'll hear about the Balloonies' ability to inflate their heads to the size of air balloons and float away. We'll leave the presentation even more proud to call ourselves humans.

But wait! Is the scientist crying? And where's the rest of the research team? And why are half of the presentation slides hand drawn by a child? And what's that rumor about the entire species of Balloonies being wiped out?

Sometimes, we discover, science expeditions don't go as planned and sometimes, we also discover, whole species of people have to be replaced to make room for new ones.

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Light & Živý

This is a play about the stories we tell ourselves when we're at our most vulnerable. River, Sunny, Lilith, and Dino are four strangers in a hospital, brought together by a dying patient. They are mothers, daughters, grandchildren, sons, lovers, and friends; each of them struggling to connect and yearning for love. When do we haunt the ones we miss the most, and when do we fly away?

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Dark & Černý

In this surreal little play told in flashes of moments, Margy, Bakar, Erda, and Angie find themselves stuck in the dreary reality of a hospital. To anyone watching, they are doctors, patients, mothers, daughters, lost souls; but inside themselves they are gods and monsters, powerful vicious beings. When we begin to feel the burdens of our lives swell up, what are the myths we tell ourselves about being human?

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

A thirsty king sends his fool to find some water, but in a world that eternally burns, there isn't a drop to be found. A little girl runs around bored, asking to try on hats. A TV anchor warns of impending doom. A dog won't stop licking the ground. Empty plastic bottles rain from the sky. 11 actors play 26 characters who meander through time and memory to warn of the dangers of climate change.

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

Inspired by the fictional rivalry between Mozart and Salieri, this pastiche operetta follows the Alberto, a reimagined Mozart/Albert Einstein character, whose genius is unfounded but whose voice is eerily silent. He’s been called to the Court of Great Italics to work on a new Spring Ball Symphony, and Caesar, the Court Musician, is bitterly jealousy. Hijinks ensue, and it’s a race to the final aria as masterpieces fly and misunderstandings grow.