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The Shanachie Project
With Kate Danley, Christine Hirrel, Jim Beller, Jim Klock and Mark McCullough
Nantucket, 1825. A widow twice over when the whaling brothers, Aaron, and then Ishmael Starbuck, were taken by the sea, Haddie Gardner Starbuck, is on the eve of wedding Fletcher, the eldest of the three. But the lord works in mysterious ways, bringing Aaron and Ishmael, alive and well to Haddie's door. Now, in proper Quaker fashion the "brothers three" must find a logical and peaceful solution to this situation, and pray that truth and piety will light the way. A moving and hysterical look at the meaning of love and property.
OF THESE DAYS PAST by ERIC LUCAS
With Lee Mikeska Gardner (Nominated Helen Hayes Awards 2000 - Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play), Mark A. Rhea, and Joseph Pindelski)
The past and present are lone partners in a final dance between Michael and Mags as the song of their life begins to fade, and they struggle to stay above the dark secret that has bound them together for so long.
WAITING FOR THE SLOW DANCE by ERIC LUCAS
With Robbie Welsh, Geoffrey Falksen, Joe Baker and Stephen Lam
Kerry, Ireland 1951. Four boys at a parish dance make their way towards manhood. Fearing the unknown of growing up, and going their own way, they learn that a single evening can change your life forever.
UNQUIET HEARTS by RICK RUSCOLL
With Carlos Bustamente, David Elias, Sheri S. Herren, Karen Jadlos Shotts, Jesse Terrell, Jim Jorgensen and Linda High.
Once upon a time in Paris, a young unknown writer named Samuel Beckett found himself the personal secretary to the great James Joyce. While there he became one of the family, a writer with a future and the love of Joyce's daughter, Lucia…and all hell broke loose.
In Cork City, Ireland an amateur theatre company, assembles to read a play. But when a young black American shows up to try out, cracks in the group start to appear, personal pasts rise to the surface, and a side usually kept hidden gets put on the table.
ELVIS ORDERS A MAITAI by EMILIO IASIELLO
PAPIER MACHE COWBOY by EMILIO IASIELLO
Much in the style of early Sam Shepard, Iasiello's plays explore a social commentary laid down among American pop culture and rock n' roll. First, in Elvis Orders A MaiTai, Buck, a disciple of "the King" and a bartender at a desolate airport bar, spends his days expounding the religion of Elvis to the life weary Sandy. But when the mysterious Johnny, walks through the door, guitar in hand claiming to be the new "king", a war over Sandy's soul begins. In Papier Mache Cowboy, Shooter and Cisco are on the run from Wall Street for embezzlement and holed up in a Mexican cantina. Being trailed by a posse of corporate types, they make their final standoff, man versus the system.
SLEEPING AND WAKING by CHRIS STEZIN
In the near future, Sullivan Daniels is the first successful recipient of a full body transplant. Only
his head remains from who he once was, but with it carries the painful truth of not knowing who you are anymore. As he struggles to get through each day, he suddenly finds what it means to have life again, and accept what it is to be yourself and another all at once.
HOME TALK FROM ABROAD by BRENDAN GRIFFIN
In a run down New York bedsit, two illegal Irish immigrants celebrate Christmas together, recollecting of the home they left behind, and finding happiness in the simple things they have.
THE SUB by SEAMUS NORRIS
On the home team bench of a Hurling pitch, Norris' comedy brilliantly captures the lives surrounding the love of the game and the cost to those who play.
DISPUTED BONES by JONATHAN GRAHAM
When Libby finds the remains of an ancient man that could turn science and history, as we know it on its ear, she suddenly becomes the center of unwanted controversy. Graham's play explores how science, politics, and our own heritage have all gone up for sale, and become big business in the new century.
LIVING MEMORY by JEREMY DAVIES
A poetic look at a man, gone, as seen through the eyes of three people who knew him. Through their words a person appears and demonstrates the power of memories. How they may comfort or haunt. And shows us our own place in other people's lives.
MY VICIOUS ANGEL by CHRISTINE EVANS
A fallen trapeze artist lays trapped, confined in a spinal brace, haunted by her dead twin sister who seems to guide the memories. From Australia, this stark, poetic drama cuts like a knife through the system and find rhythms in revenge.
APOSTLE FALL by DANIEL PREBEL
A family takes refuge in a bomb shelter built into the Blue Ridge Mountains after a catastrophic nuclear event. In an endless winter, where no contact has been made with the outside world for more than a year, hope and supplies wear thin. Suddenly a survivor, a runaway girl is found, inciting fragmentation in an already precarious world. Where the vengeance of nature and the dilapidation of the human spirit hoping for a new life steadily disintegrate.
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