Sometimes basketball is the only way out. Even for a girl. Even in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Beloved national poet Augusto Reál has not written a scrap for seven years. What’s more, he’s been incredibly happy. Or has he? In the twilight of his life, his once quiet house is flooded with the voices of women who descend upon the valley. They upset him, shatter his peace and in the noise something unspoken begins to stir in them all.
I ENTER the VALLEY is a play about the nature of power, creativity and female friendship. It was inspired by the life of Pablo Neruda.
Ella is a precocious and fiercely competitive actress whose sole aim in life is making her famous playwright father, David, proud. Over the course of a boozy evening, Ella and David deliberate over whether to read the reviews of her Off-Broadway debut…and things unravel from there. A dark, probing and very funny play pulls the audience into the middle of a deeply complicated relationship and sheds new light on the eternal struggles of parents and children to find common ground.
A piece about artists, legacy and photography. REALLY asks what do we try to leave behind, what do we actually leave behind, and how do we deal with being left.
As time goes by, William feels more and more at a loss with his life and misses the daughter he pushed away years ago. To seek redemption and sanity he sets out on a journey, leaving his wife, renting an RV, searching for his daughter and befriending young strangers. HONEY DROP is about family, creativity, love and trying to tame the monsters that hover in the back.
Cal and Tim are travelling the topsy-turvy world on an unconventional honeymoon to dive hotels and far-flung destinations, where they will not be ordering room service or finding heart shaped chocolates on their pillow. When Cal finds a photo of a mysterious woman in Tim’s passport, she stumbles upon a history that isn’t their own. Soon, this ghost flickering at the edge of their relationship starts to haunt them both. As do the strange rituals, cultural differences and languages of other cities, which unravel what they thought they knew best: each other. Holy Day was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Chiara is a spoiled starlet. Peter is a pet photographer. He’s also Chiara’s obsessed, middle-aged stalker-fan, who believes there’s another dimension, where he and Chiara can live happily. It’s Comic Con time, and Peter’s in trouble. He has violated his restraining order and is being held by a security guard who dreams of being a real cop. All Chiara wants is for her stage mom and her bodyguard to get lost—preferably, together. Everyone has a fantasy, and soon they’ll collide—with each other and reality.
It’s 1960 in North Orange, NJ. Clytemnestra and Medea are now housewives with a pill addiction, and Antigone is the teenage girl next door who is in love with a black boy. On the surface, they’re seemingly blissful to follow the “rules” of Emily Post, the American author famous for writing on etiquette. But that’s just the surface. Then Cassandra, a black working girl, moves into their neighborhood and all routines are interrupted. Cassandra is determined to finally break the curse of Apollo, the gorgeous and egotistical god who gave her this “gift” of prophecy but made it so no one would ever believe her. He makes it clear his curse is practically indestructible: all she has to do is convince someone to believe her. Can Cassandra convince these women they now have choices in this modern era? That they don’t have to live a doomed existence? Can all four women escape their ongoing fate?
A moving love story that spans decades in an instant—from marriage, children, skydiving, and the infinite moments that make a life together.
1936. A metropolis divided by segregation and struck by economic turmoil. Rent parties rage above, while men hungry for work and love roam the streets. In this concrete jungle, a series of black female bodies turn up and a pattern emerges. Reactions vary across the city — hot-tempered ex-con Walker remains oblivious; Darlynn is anxious, but then again, she’s always anxious; and her neighbor Paul Pare Jr., a young, charming black man stays cool. Man in Love examines a world of quiet desperation in hard times, where a criminal and his victims can get lost in the crowd.