In The Name Of - In a time when the USA-PATRIOT Act is standard practice, a young man hits upon the possibility of personal freedom -- and the government hits him back, hard.
A Question of Color - In 1907, a white man and a black woman defy North Carolina’s ban on interracial marriages and get married, a defiant act that costs them dearly. The play is based on the memoir of the same name by Sara Beattie.
Dancing at the Revolution - Emma Goldman, exiled in France, struggles to write her autobiography and explain herself to a young French secretary unimpressed by someone once known as the “most dangerous woman in America.”
Ain’t Ethiopia - After whites lynch his wife, an African-American man goes to Spain in 1937 to fight Franco but finds that if his life, and his wife’s death, is to mean anything , he must face down the home-town fascists who murdered her.
On The Nature Of The Dark Matter That Dominates The Present Mean Mass Density Of The Universe - Charges of "liberal bias" against a white law professor with black ancestors also becomes infected with slurs about racial identity.
Pictures At An Exhibition - A photographer accused of abuse for taking nude photos of her son does jail-time rather than admit any wrong-doing. She meets a cell-mate serving time for real child abuse: abetting the death of her own daughter.
When The Phones Came To Liberty Creek - In 1999, Liberty Creek, a rural “unincorporated territory,” still does not have phone service. But when service finally arrives, traditions and fights start and end with a simple dial tone. (This is a full-length version of the one-act version, adding three characters: Shang, a Chinese-American “shang” hunter; Henry David Toussaint, the only logger in the state from Trinidad (and a Lutheran, to boot); and Jason Bock, big-city reporter.)
Esquina - A police officer is charged with murdering 17-year old Jose Aral, and the Aral family is never the same.
Hardball - In 1922, semi-pro Jewish pitching phenom Henry Kaner gets offered a contract by the St. Louis Browns -- if he'll play on Shabbos. What do do with this version of the American dream?
Bright Gold Promise - A story of betrayal prompted by a thirst for real estate.
NEA High - A high school senior, awarded a grant by her city council for art lessons, creates a painting that criticizes a school policy on sex education. Art, politics, and freedom all clash when her painting is pulled from the exhibition.
The Happy City - Based on The Plague by Albert Camus, a river-port shipping city in the mid-West in depths-of-the- Depression 1932 is shut down because of bubonic plague -- only the first of many afflictions suffered by the people.
Homeward Bound (3 males, 3 females) -- At the intersection of domestic violence and immigration, a young undocumented Mexican woman is caught in an abusive marriage with an American citizen and must find a way to either escape or die.
Mine Eyes - The narrator tells an interviewer about his PR work for the American militia. He believed he could sell ideas like commodities but instead just turned out poisons. He now struggles to belong to a world he’s done much to damage.
Translation - An American appraiser of art photography must trust a linguist-for-hire to translate a journal which most certainly contains (un)wanted revelations from another woman whom the appraiser met on a business trip in Germany.
Truces/Treguas - This is a revision of the second act of Pictures at an Exhibition (see description above).
The Most Dangerous Woman in America - A one actor piece based on the life of the anarchist Emma Goldman.
The First Day of the Seventh Month - A perfectly healthy man, deciding that he has only six months to live, sets out to live as if that were true. Then the sun rises on the first day of the seventh month.
When The Phones Came To Liberty Creek - In 1999, Liberty Creek, a rural “unincorporated territory,” still does not have phone service. But when service finally arrives, traditions and fights start and end with a simple dial tone.
A Round of Slaughter - An exiled playwright comes home when the government turns outwardly democratic. She accepts a commission for a play to honor the changes, but a former slaughterhouse cannot stop being a slaughterhouse overnight.
Poly X - Using the Greek story of Polyxena, the last sacrifice made in the Trojan War (unlike Iphegenia, the first sacrifice, Polyxena was not saved), Poly X is a play about the anger, mayhem, and sport of war.
The Business - Christian business ethics are now the corporate rage in the Avantguard Investments mutual fund company -- until Peter Waldo begins to read the Bible literally and questions whether Jesus would ever have been a CEO.
To...Or Not... -- On the annual January combat between pro lifers and pro choicers, seventy year old Alma Gordon and mother Melinda Marsh have a few things to say to each other as they cool their heels in a police van. (There is also short version of this piece in the "Shorter Pieces" section below.)
Let Down The Rains ) -- A well-known radio therapist tells such a story to the cabbie taking her to catch a train to Vermont that the cabbie, after he drops her off, doesn’t think New York-to-Vermont is that far out of his way to pick up his fare.
Another Seascape - Using Edward Albee’s Seascape as a starting point, two comfortable, but whiny, bourgeoisie are confronted by two existentialist lizards about why they think they have it so bad.
A collection of miscellaneous pieces ranging over a variety of topics, running from 5 to 30 minutes.
The Adulterous Woman (1 male, 1 female) -- Staring out across the desert, in a country not her own, Janine finds a perfection that she had not anticipated and does not yet know if it will accept her. (Based on the story by Albert Camus.) See the full script in MS Word. -- 15 pages
The Bête Goes Noire (1 female, 2 males) -- Charon the Boatman will show up in the strangest places these days. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages
The Body Electric (2 males) -- During the Civil War, Walt Whitman volunteered his time as a nurse. Always close to those he helped, he finds his spirit drawn to Henry Smith, who refuses to let the doctors take his leg. See the full script in MS Word. -- 4 pages
Booger (1 male) -- Paul, a former Catholic altar boy, recalls a moment when his true religious faith was revealed to him that was as plain as the nose on his face. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages
Bum A Shot (1 male, 1 female) -- Homeless, Steel Eye panhandles each day and tries to give her potential customers something back for their money. But when Roland Bitters won’t give her $10 for taking a picture of her face, she reminds him that it is copyrighted and forces him to look at her as a person. See the full script in MS Word. -- 8 pages
Catalog (2 males or 1 male/1 female) -- When everything can be bought from home or on-line, even death will have its own catalog. A story of how far capitalism will go to get market share. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages
The City of Mosques (2 males, 1 female - all Nigerian) -- The knock upon the front door, the knife-edged news given by an Armed Services officer in sharp-creased clothing -- and then the next day, and the day after that... The death of a young man in Fallujah, Iraq, the “city of mosques.” See the full script in MS Word. -- 13 pages
Click (2 males) -- When Marlin reveals to Pinto what he did in the park that night, it changes the whole nature of the moral universe they inhabit. A play about whether hate can ever be moral. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages
Combover (2 males) -- Ever since Samson lost his hair and his virility, men have been concerned about the state of their pate. Dual McKenzie confesses to his barber, Clay Harrison, that he is a little worried about what his wife will think about the “thinning thatch” on his head, especially since she seems to be pursuing life with a gusto that unnerves him. See the full script in MS Word. -- 6 pages
Courier Mercury (1 male or 1 female) -- Jukie di Gamba is a bicycle courier extraordinaire - and he has the touch of a poet as well when he sees his journey through the city streets as the modern-day version of Mercury delivering messages for the gods. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages
DOT ORG (2 males or 2 females) -- In a fantasy not far from reality, a hapless computer user envisions God as a sophisticated (though not error-free) software and the rest of us as hapless lines of code in various stages of debugging. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages
Downsize (2 males, 2 females) -- When Hannah inadvertently pours water on the boss and melts him away, she and her three co-workers are momentarily released into their own freedom: they can do whatever they want. This freedom both terrifies and excites them, and the choices they make demonstrate the state of our own ambivalence about liberty and security. See the full script in MS Word. -- 8 pages
Equal. Separate. (1 white female, 1 black female) -- Race and class in America are never far below the surface, as Pat (who is white) and Chris (who is black), long-time friends and survivors of being “women in the building trades,” find out when the talk one afternoon comes around to whether their son and daughter should date. Over a beer and a shot, they confront powerful issues of race and class, a confrontation which ends their friendship. See the full script in MS Word. -- 9 pages
Everything’s Jake (2 females) -- Gender and sexual identity are slippery concepts when it comes to human beings, as Jane finds out when she reveals to Jacqui her strong love for Jacqui, only to find out that Jacqui has a secret about her past that could either destroy or strengthen their budding relationship. A play about fluid boundaries and not-so-essential “essential” natures. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages
Fare Thee Well (6 females) -- Six women gather for a very special farewell party to one of their own in this celebration about facing and surviving breast cancer. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages
George Bailey Redivivus (2 males) -- Life goes on for George Bailey after the last reel of It’s A Wonderful Life - and what happens? George finds out, “Not much,” and Clarence once again has to appear to give him a hand, though with a very different offer this time around. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages
Glory Train (2 males, 2 females) -- Biological warfare does not only happen on the international level. Many toxins can destroy our lives on the day-to-day level, as four travelers find out when a disturbed young woman threatens them all with a vial of what she says is anthrax, and they have no way of knowing if she is telling the truth or not. Suddenly, the nature and purpose of life become very immediate. See the full script in MS Word. -- 6 pages
Good Tidings (1 male, 1 female) -- Domestic servants may not have much economic clout, but they are not necessarily powerless, as Roger finds out when, in response to a request for a gratuity at Christmastime, he snootily responds with high-handed arrogance. They show him that the servants oftentimes know more about the masters than the masters know about the servants. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages
The Greed Gene (2 males, 1 female - though the doctor can be played by a female) -- Genetic counseling will soon be able to reveal all of the intricacies of our human personality, but this abundance of knowledge is not necessarily a blessing, as Norman and Lauren Drago learn from Dr. Targus, their “Genie of Genes,” as he explains to them what their new child will face in this “brave new world.” as a possessor of the “greed gene.” See the full script in MS Word. -- 7 pages
Hammer (2 females) -- Delia, a construction worker, smacked the eleven-year old son of her boyfriend when he told her that he didn’t want to learn anything about carpentry from a “girl.” She is confused by her actions because, on the one hand, she wants to nip these beginning buds of sexism but, on the other hand, is troubled by her swift choice of physical violence to do it. See the full script in MS Word. -- 9 pages
Hannah And The Maccabees (2 females) -- A stroke has crippled Hannah, twisting her body in a useless coil and reducing her to four words she can use to communicate -- “yes,” “no,” “ohjesus,” and “whoa.” Carol, her social worker, talks with Hannah when it is clear Hannah has tried to kill herself by slashing her wrist on a broken piece of glass. Carol must understand a whole life as Hannah uses a four-part alphabet to spell it out. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages. [NOTE: This play has also been done with a male as the social worker and appropriate changes made in the script.]
Hold On (1 male, 1 female) -- Cappy and Ronnie have come to the end of their seven?year relationship. Suddenly, a car careens out of control and teeters on the edge of the bridge -- only they can keep it from plunging. They keep a lot more than the car from sliding into the river as they talk out where they have ended up. See the full script in MS Word. -- 8 pages
How Do You Like Your Blueeyed Boy... (1 male, 1 female) -- Assisted suicide, death with dignity - Lilah Lawton finds no solace in any of these terms when she finds out that Dr. Jeremiah Kissov, an active proponent of “dignicides,” has helped her mother end her life. She is determined to get answers, no matter what it takes to extract them from Dr. Kissov. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages
If Cleanliness (1 male, 3 females) -- It is 1894, and young Brigid Yeats, working as a stitcher in a workshop and a maid in the rectory, has a revelation about water, Emma Goldman, and our blessed St. Brigid. See the full script in MS Word. -- 19 pages
In The Fort (1 male child, 1 female) -- To a nation of immigrants, who is “legitimate” and who is not takes on a great political weight and a sometimes deadly power. No wonder this is all confusing to a young Latino child when someone at school calls his father a name, and he is not sure if it is insulting. His mother, Luz, explains as best she can but knows that the poison of the world is coming closer to her son, and there is not much she can do to stem it. See the full script in MS Word. -- 4 pages
Isn’t A Date in Eight A Great Idea, Or What? (1 male, 1 female) -- “Speed dating” is supposed to make the manuevers easier, but even in eight minutes expectations can be confounded in many interesting ways. See the full script in MS Word. -- 13 pages
J. De La Vega (1 male or 1 female) -- Violence in the barrios of New York is not uncommon, and with great sadness but pain-filled love, street artist J. De La Vega does not let these deaths disappear as street-level memorials to the fallen victims of Voverty, racism, and simple bad luck bloom on walls, sidewalks, and buildings. It is not a body of work that offers a great deal of satisfaction or solace. See the full script in MS Word. -- 3 pages
Location: Highway. Time: Near Dusk (1 female, 2 males or 2 females or 1 female and one male) -- Adam is picked up for causing a disturbance by the side of the highway when she sees the seventh deer hit and left to die. See the full script in MS Word. -- 11 pages
Love Letters (1 male, 1 female) -- Love must be renewed, but how it gets renewed is never quite under our control. When Dale finds, in the attic, a bundle of love letters addressed to her but unsent by her husband Roger, her feelings for him are revived. Roger, however, knows that the name “Dale” is attached to more than one person in the world, and not necessarily to someone the same gender as his wife. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (2 females, 4 males, but some roles interchangable) -- An adaptation of the short story by Mark Twain. See the full script in MS Word. -- 25 pages
Moment (2 males, 1 female, 5 males or females) -- Time can be stretched, Einstein told us, and a moment can seem to encompass an entire lifetime. When Roger finds himself in the situation of a bank robbery, and one of the robbers fires a gun at him, multiple life-times play out in the time and distance between the muzzle of the gun and the final destination of the bullet. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages
Mucho Macho (2 males) -- Testosterone poisoning is probably one of the greatest environmental hazards the world faces, and on a simple day on a simple subway ride, two men cannot resist the hormonal urge to do ritual combat. See the full script in MS Word. -- 5 pages
No Great Loss (2 females, one of which is Ethiopian) -- Emma Newmark’s hair is thinning, and when Awagu Kidane, her hair-dresser, comments on how trim Emma’s husband Spurgeon is looking, Emma puts “hair” and “trim” together and wants to know just what her haid-dresser knows for sure. See the full script in MS Word. -- 11 pages
Only The Dead Know Brooklyn (4 males) -- An adaptation of the 1936 short story of the same name by Thomas Wolfe. The script contains both Wolfe’s phonetic idioms of a Brooklyn accent and a "regularized" version. See the full script in MS Word. -- 12 pages
Pamplona (8 actors, any mix) -- It’s the running of the bulls in Pamplona -- and several of the bulls have existential questions about why they run. See the full script in MS Word. -- 8 pages
Ripped From The Headlines (5 males, 3 females) -- A meditation on the murder of Matthew Shepard. See the full script in MS Word. -- 8 pages
Road Rage (1 male, 1 female) -- Winston D’Cline, a driving instructor, is normally pretty cool at the wheel. Until one day, with Darlene Benz in the car for her lesson, something snaps. See the full script in MS Word. -- 4 pages
Rooted (1 male with light Irish accent, 1 female African-American) -- Can death rid us of our bigotries? Can the final demise reform our hearts? This is the question at the core of this play. When Addison O’Riley, “American by way of the potato famine,” buys a cemetery plot for himself, he does not know that it sits next to Minerva O’Riley’s, the black groundskeeper for the cemetery. She is not taken with the idea of spending eternity as his neighbor, though he tries his best to convince her that she could do worse. See the full script in MS Word. -- 9 pages
Seconds (2 females) -- Sue, a fire fighter and EMT, comes upon a car accident and tries to save the young woman trapped in the car - though the young woman does not want to be saved. In fact, she drove herself off the road to end her own misery. Sue cannot let the woman die - but the decision is not all in her hands. See the full script in MS Word. -- 7 pages
Slam Quartet (2 males, 2 females) -- Slam poetry is all the sonic rage, and the final quartet of Jugger, Jukie, Pagan, and Mikey aim to bring the decibel level up a notch or two as they go for the championship of the "Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah Slam Poetry Contest." See the full script in MS Word. -- 9 pages
The Socialist Book of Love (1 male, 1 female) -- Like those Japanese soldiers who surrendered years after World War II was over, Yury has refused to surrender to the capitalist onslaught of his small socialist country. He has been holed up in his apartment since 1989, refusing to come out. His refusal has garnered him a certain fame, and old, disaffected Socialists have helped him survive by bringing him food and other supplies, and his resistance has taken on mythic proportions around the country. But the building where he lives is now going condo and the owner, Yalena, wants him out. She has arrived to make him move. See the full script in MS Word. -- 12 pages
Sporting Goods (2 males) -- What can touching “sports-approved flesh” lead to? See the full script in MS Word. -- 3 pages
To...Or Not... (2 females) -- Abortion may well be the “Civil War” of our age, but 70-year old Alma Gordon is not going to let the barbarians win, which is why she engages in ritual combat and more with Melinda Marsh, young mother and pro-lifer, who is too young to remember the back alleys and casual carnage of the pre-Roe days. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages. (There is also one-act version of this piece.)
Touching Down (2 males, one Native American: Seneca Nation) -- Parents will eventually die, and family members must face this. Thomas Touch-Fire, old and crippled and exhausted, wants to permanently exit his nursing home with the help of his son-in-law Lindbergh. But Lindbergh, remembering the Seneca legends his father-in-law has taught him, offers Thomas another road to travel. See the full script in MS Word. -- 9 pages
Treetop (1 male, 1 female) -- Julia Jackson Sequoia Sempervirens has been sitting for two years on a 6' by 8' platform 180 feet above the ground in a redwood (Latin name: Sequoia sempervirens) to protest logging in ancient virgin forests. She is coming close to a resolution with the company that will result in the redwood being saved from logging. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages
Undress Me (1 male/ 1 female) -- The language of love has many dialects, and Stefan and Laura explore the diphthongs of desires as Laura asks Stefan, in the middle of a crowded bar, to undress her with words. He gladly responds in the best mother tongue he knows. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages
The Window (3 males or 3 females or some combination) -- One patient in the room had the window; the other didn’t but wanted it fiercely. Finally, the first patient has the wish granted. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages
Brain Drain -- In this tale of gentle trickery, Crocodile is ready to eat El Mono (The Monkey) when El Mono fools him with a diversion. Though Crocodile is faster and stronger than El Mono, El Mono uses his brains to outwit brawn, showing (at least sometimes) that the mind is faster than muscle. See the full script in MS Word.
The Tale of Blanca Flor -- Juan is a good dancer but a lousy gambler. One day, tired of losing his shirt, he says to himself, “I would give anything to be able to win when I gamble.” Just then, El Diablo shows up riding a black horse and says, “Tell me what you want.” When Juan tells him his desire to have a little bit of money and a mountain of luck, El Diablo grants him his wish, with the proviso that in five years, he must come to El Diablo’s hacienda and obey three commands. For five years, he has phenomenal luck – but it comes time to pay the piper, and Juan sets off to find El Diablo. When he arrives, he meets Blanca Flor, one of El Diablo’s three daughters, and with her help, he is able to complete the three commands. There is a moment when their love is in jeopardy because he forgets a command she gave him, but in the end they remember to love one another, and the story concludes happily. Read the full script or a sample.
Beware Of What You Ask For -- A story about the unintended consequences of desire, based on the South American tale The Rooster’s Claw. Raúl and Sofía were very much in love. They had two children and worked very hard, and life rewarded them well. One day, Raíl disappeared on the way home from market, and Sofía never found out what happened to him. Her sadness turned to bitterness and she began to complain about everything in life. Realizing that she was alone and turning mean, she consulted the curandera, the healer, to find help. The curandera gave her the rooster’s claw, which could grant wishes, but warned her that it was a little dangerous and not very reliable. Sofía didn’t care: how much worse could her life get? The rest of the tale reveals her three wishes and their ironic consequences. She returned the rooster’s claw to the curandera and stopped complaining because she knew that life could be stranger than it was. See the full script in MS Word.
Macbeth’s Children: A Confrontation with William Shakespeare’s Macbeth -- Macbeth’s Children focuses on Fleance, the escaped son of the murdered Banquo. The play draws on a number of ideas, including the effect of violence (especially military violence) on children, what “masculinizing” does to men and women, and the cost for children in living in a world brutally directed by adults.
The Patron Saint of Geeks -- Bobby and Chad are close friends in the fifth grade. Classified as “geeks” in the school’s social structure, they are harassed by Rad and his gang (a year older and members of the Boys Club football team) and the Pearls (a group of girls whose “clique” is very exclusive). Pushed by their bullying to the edge of their patience, Bobby and Chad contemplate using a gun to equalize the imbalance in power. The play not only examines the consequences of social stereotyping but also the choices the weak make when continually oppressed by the strong.
The Real Temple -- All of life is a journey, and Lorenzio finds this out literally when, in a waking dream, he falls through his mirror into a slightly wacky King Arthur-world that takes him on a search for beauty, strength, and wisdom. The play is done in vaudeville style, complete with Three Knights in a Daze, the nasty Grapunzel-Dunzel, the Saggin’ Dragon, King Sale-O-Man, and the Voice of Density. (This could also be done by high school students.)
The Way -- Aviva Matthews is a very popular girl in school. She has everything going for her and is at the top. But one day she tries to break up a fight at school between a girl and her friend Ruby, and the incident affects her deeply. Studying Lao-Tzu’s “The Way” in her World Religions class, she decides to use the power of meditation to end the violence that happens to children and that children do to each other, and she goes to her bedroom for a retreat. This leads to a confrontation with her friend Dink, who believes the whole adult world (which to her is the cause of all the violence) should be wiped clean so that things can be done over, and done right. They realize that both approaches are needed: confrontating injustice must be balanced with the search for peace and harmony. Spiritual power comes only when it engages with history, and violence can only be met with love and risk and courage.
No More Prisons -- Clique, a young woman, is on a quest. She has been tagging every available surface with the phrase “No More Prisons.” On one of her “outings,” she is found by QT, a counselor working with at-risk youth, who has been looking for her to ask her questions about what she is doing and to offer her help. Clique’s story unfolds the life of her sister, Johanna, imprisoned for a murder she committed at the age of seventeen.
The Most Dangerous Woman in America -- Using the format of a lecture, this play presents a one-woman rendition of Emma Goldman, focusing on both the life and the ideas that motivated it. When the play opens, Goldman is approximately in her early fifties, about the time of her exile from the U.S. in 1920: stout, near-sighted, plain.
Ain’t Ethiopia - After local whites lynch his wife as a suspected Communist, African-American Jesse Colton travels to Spain in 1937 to fight Franco. But there he finds that his real battle is with the fascists in the small Mississippi town from which he escaped and that he must return to face them down if his life, and his wifeÙs death, is to have any meaning. See the full script in MS Word.
By The River - This is a screenplay version of the play A Question of Color. Two people, John Wicks (white) and Susan Morgan (black), defy an early 20th-century North Carolina prohibition against miscegenation and get married. The story follows Susan and John as they struggle to make full lives under the shadow cast by color and prejudice. See the full script in MS Word.
The Nun Drops Her Veil - A nun doing missionary work in Patagonia, Argentina, during the government’s “Dirty War” must trust a priest with military ties to find who has been killing the peasants and union leaders who are also her friends. See the full script in MS Word.
The Sunlight Dialogues - Based on the novel of the same name by John Gardner, a small-city police chief must confront the meaning and purpose of her own existence when she takes into custody a self-proclaimed anarchist named Sunlight. See the full script in MS Word.
Shea Man - An anthropologist plants the bones of the “missing link” on his family’s farm to generate hype and cash. But when the “evidence” falls into the hands of a P.T. Barnum-style promoter who sees gold in gullibility, all goes awry. See the full script in MS Word.
Georgia’s Miss Baby - A young man loses his mother, and to deal with his grief, he joins the Marines. But during his last summer before shipping out, he meets a nervy nonagenarian with her own battles about an absent mother. See the full script in MS Word.
Downsize - Hannah spills water on the boss and melts him down, just like the Wicked Witch in Oz. What now? See the full script in MS Word.-- 15 pages
How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy... - When Lilah Lawton learns that Dr. Jeremiah Kissov, an advocate of “dignicides,” has helped her mother die, she determines to get answers, no matter what it takes to extract them. See the full script in MS Word. -- 15 pages
Touching Down - Seneca Indian Thomas Touch-Fire, aged and tired, wants to exit his life with son-in-law Lindbergh’s help. But Lindbergh, remembering the legends his father-in-law taught him, offers Thomas another way out. See the full script in MS Word. -- 24 pages
Everything’s Jake - When Jane reveals to Jacqui her strong love for Jacqui, she finds that Jacqui is willing to accept it -- but there is the small matter of someone named Jack that Jacqui needs to talk about. See the full script in MS Word. -- 14 pages
In The Fort - At school someone calls Pablo’s father a "wetback," but Pablo mis-hears it as “wetvac,” which confuses him: his father a vacuum cleaner? Luz, his mom, sooths him but knows that the world is closing in. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages
Hold On - As Cappy and Ronnie discuss the end of their relationship, a car crashes on a bridge and teeters on the edge -- only they can keep it from falling over. As they hold on to the car, they wonder if they can hold on to themselves. See the full script in MS Word. -- 19 pages
Glory Train - A young woman threatens her fellow subway riders all with a vial of what she says is anthrax. See the full script in MS Word. -- 12 pages
Equal. Separate. - - Pat, white, and Chris, black, long-time friends and survivors of being “women in the building trades,” lose their friendship when, over a shot and a beer, Chris finds out that Pat wouldn’t let her daughter date Chris’ son. See the full script in MS Word. -- 17 pages
Tips - Two dollars on the counter, a tired waitress eying her tip, and a down-and-out man with itchy fingers. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages.