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From NUTSHELL. 12W, 5M, 11 Either. 75 min. Produced by DC Dollies & The Rocket Bitch Revue at DC Fringe 7.07.
The staff of a DC non-profit are headed to Kenya on a mission to save the elephants. Meanwhile, the elephants are making their own preparations.
[MRS. CANTWELL : Have you practiced throwing things? I find nothing motivates employees quite like airborne crockery.
[In revision--sample unavailable.]
From THE IMPRESARIO. 3W, 2M. 25 min. Commissioned and produced by The In Series 1.08.
A newly translated adaptation of Mozart’s operetta THE IMPRESARIO.
[GUNNAR : Now, let’s not let this devolve like the last meeting. Nobody wants to lose any more fingernails and I only brought so much Xanax.
From THE TRAGEDY OF MARY LOU SKATONDA. 3M, 5W. 75 min. Unproduced.
A futuristic comedy about murder, genocide, and mother-daughter angst.
[RUBY : Well, if you’re not gonna fuck me, AGAIN, I’m gonna go play Grand Theft Auto. Gimme the money for the Chinese.
From SAFEWORD. 4W, 3M. 120 min. Unproduced. O’Neill Semifinalist 2006. SAFEWORD lays bare the secrets and struggles of two suburban DC families and asks us why is it so much easier to get what we need from strangers?
[AMOS: You know Paul, we know Danny’s a homo and all. I mean—it ain’t like we strung him up or nothin’ when he told us.
From DIRTY HEART. 4M, 3W. 110 min. Unproduced.
A Thanksgiving comedy stuffed with practical jokes, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and a murder confession.
[LUCRECE: And so my girlish heart did imitate
His advances and retreats to fight for Rome;
And as he left so did my spirit wane,
And waxed again as he drew near to home.
From LUCRECE. 5M, 2W. 75 min. Commissioned and produced by Washington Shakespeare Company 2.07.
This stage adaptation of "The Rape of Lucrece" lends a fresh perspective to the centuries-old story of Lucretia, a noblewoman who killed herself after she was raped.
[LOUISA: The first time is always hard. And you were down there for so long.
[In revision--sample unavailable.]
From MAY 39th. 1M, 1W. 45 min. Produced by DC Dollies & The Rocket Bitch Revue at DC Fringe 7.06.
Meet Sam and Louisa the morning after their first date. A thousand years from now, dating in the city will still blow chunks.
[JUPITER: You know me I’m not much of a flower guy because I think it’s so wrong to kill them just to bring them indoors, but this was already broken and in the road.
[In revision--sample unavailable.]
From JUPITER ZOOM. 3M, 4W. 110 min. Equity Showcase 3.06
Family breeds contempt in this comedy that puts a chiropractor, a baked snowboarder, two sets of sisters, and a guy named after a planet in an upper NW home for three whole days.
[MAN #16: Are you sure? I want to hear you say the words so there’s no question later that this was consensual.
From LULU FABULOUS. 3W, 2M. 90 min. Commissioned and produced by Phoenix Theatre 5.05.
An imaginative romp through two years in the life of Lulu. Helping her find her way are 54 characters, including her grandmother’s doting cousins, her two pet fighting fish, and the Zen friends she meets at a yoga retreat in the Berkshires.
