There is something excruciating about the rare experience of a bachelorette party when you’re in your mid-thirties. Gone are the days of putting on your slinkiest dress and a sash that says “Bachelorette Party” (but that means “Buy me a drink, I’m not the one
“Don’t you remember?” my mother asked. “You were out of school for most of seventh and eighth grade. You had Mrs. Colletti for a tutor.” “Look in that cabinet,” she said, pointing to a tin box near the television. “There’s a red book. I’ve recorded
When the love ends, one realizes that it is gracious for a lover not to speak in permanence or gifts. I’m sitting at a study table on the sixth floor of the library, and the window before me is something like twenty feet tall. The
The bandages circled my head at an oblique angle and irritated the earward side of my right eyebrow. I was waiting in the sickly park outside the hospital for Zalut (pronounced like “Salut!”) to arrive in his car, a duct-taped Vaz-2101. There was broken glass
After you left, your wife became a bird, even the gravitational pullCalled her a witch, she has been denied a soft landing, now she searches the sky of Sahara, After you left your mother became a nursery; a piece that should grow something elseNursing flowers
SETTING Nail salon in a strip mall; the present. Lights go up on two Deaf women conversing in ASL while getting a pedicure. Their pedicurists are hearing but invisible to the audience; they do not know ASL. DEAF WOMAN A Hey-hey-hey – not that color.
CHARACTERS (1f, 1m) Lisa – femme, any ethnicity, 20s-30s. A spindly praying mantis who also happens to be a scientist. Santiago – masc, Latinx, 20s-30s. A hopeless romantic and moody poet. Also a praying mantis. SETTING A makeshift habitat for two praying mantises, which is
CAST Ben and Joe – men in their 40s SET A kitchen set. SYNOPSIS Two gay men attend a nineties-themed celebration and come to the realization that the years after the AIDS crisis have passed them by. The playwright expects productions to be undertaken by
SYNOPSIS Whenever two or more are gathered together in his name, whether the “his” in question is God, Allah, Cthulhu or Barry, the Night Watchman, there’s always going to be a bureaucracy. And in that bureaucracy, in the red tape and the messy mix of
CHARACTERS DIANA – Young woman obsessed with telenovelas CONSUELO – Character in the telenovela, La Vida Corta TIME Present PLACE Small living room Grabbing the remote control, DIANA turns on the television. The title of the telenovela, La Vida Corta, appears on the screen. Followed