And They Will Bring Both Truth and Pain
aka American Italian
Brooklyn. A tale of two families and the feud that threatens to destroy their intertwined lives through both the church and organized crime.
3 hours (including intermission).
Brave the Wayward
A widower finally confronts a vicious act that was once perpetrated against his only daughter. He visits the two male, two female offenders at a social gathering, unlocking their untold histories and forcing all concerned into an exercise of self-examination.
90 minutes. No intermission.
Performed in real time.
Tessa Loves Violence
Nevada. Two ex-convicts visit a brothel after being released from their lengthy prison sentences. Two sex workers and their House Mom are exposed to a bruising night of complex male psychologies.
1 hour 50 minutes (including intermission).
The Brutalists
Krystle is a single mother, looking after her teenage daughter Amy. Her estranged husband Lance wishes to visit, yet Krystle believes that he will soon bring havoc to their stable lives.
1 hour 50 minutes (including intermission).
One Shining Day
1968. Modesto, California.
Georgia returns back to her parents for summer break. After being politicized by her university colleagues, she starts to question her upbringing within a far-right home. Noticing how her father’s views still influence her mother and elder brother, her main concern is now towards her sister; the susceptible nine-year-old Eve.
Opposing ideologies cause a family to face itself – with life altering repercussions.
2 hours 50 minutes (including intermission).
A Deeply Honest Man
The locals are white, love their cars, are High School educated, and see climate change as a lie. They also voted for Trump. When a local schoolteacher places a Democratic Party poster in his front window, the neighborhood begins to query his motivations.
2 hours 10 minutes (including intermission).
Those That Fall
Socio-political tensions build between two African American couples. A drama set in 2016 Inglewood, dissecting the lives of four characters in the run-up to Trump’s win of the White House.
2 hours 10 minutes (including intermission).
The Good Thing
Toxic masculinity pervades the air of a Miss America beauty pageant in 1981.
2 hours 10 minutes (including intermission).
The Innocent and the Damned
Rena is a 50 year-old native New Yorker of Jewish heritage and a prominent art critic. Evan is a young WASP artist and part-time model. He is also preparing his first solo exhibition. Rena is granted an interview with him to discuss his ironic take on 20th century fascism.
90 minutes. No intermission.
Untitled 12-Hour Play
Three New York families have their lives interconnect over a thirty-year period. From the early 1950’s through to the mid-eighties, the four three-hour performances depict the characters’ fortunes and losses within the various social and political changes of the times.
Philadelphia Hustle
An urban family attempts to survive the ghettoization of 1970’s North Philadelphia.
The Reductionists
(Facts as Fiction and Crimes Benign)
Washington, DC. 2018. The middle of Trump’s term in office.
A small group of White House staff creates a new policy that will affect millions of disabled people across the United States.
90 minutes. No intermission.
Performed in real time.