Wild Goose Dreams by Hansol Jung
Against a choral cacophony filled with social media chatter and coded messages, a North Korean defector and South Korean goose father hook-up to assuage their loneliness. But will their quiet, surreptitious intimacy be enough to cut through the noise? Performed with a live choir, this darkly humorous, highly theatrical piece deploys multi-sensory modalities to show humanity at a breaking point. Choral score by Paul Castles.
Non-Player Character by Walt McGough
Aspiring video game designer Katja and her longtime friend Trent are an unstoppable team in the online underworlds of SpearLight until Trent wages a real-life war against her with an army of internet trolls. Based loosely on GamerGate, this play delves into a timely and boldly theatrical exploration of the misogyny in the games we play, and who’s winning.
Before Evening Comes by Philana Omorotionmwan
It’s the year 2083. A draconian government mandate renders nearly all males of color homebound and disabled as they reach manhood. A mother fights to protect her young sons in this dystopian allegory for our times.
whisper fish by Andrew P. Saito
In this epic, massively imaginative story, the sacred and the profane unite two estranged Japanese-Peruvian siblings. Magical realism builds this highly theatrical and poetic play with the help of Glenn Miller and his all-fish orchestra, praying nuns, and a dancing chorus of masked Devils.
Sycamore by Sarah Sander
What happens when the lens zooms in on your average, seemingly well-adjusted Midwestern suburban family? Will things finally break apart for good over the siblings’ fierce competition for the young, quiet stranger? A riveting, poignant, sexy, and darkly funny play.
Good, Better, Best, Bested by Jonathan Spector
A long, drunken stumble down the Las Vegas Strip, in which bachelorettes, stage magicians, street performers, professional gamblers, obnoxious tourists and historical soldiers reckon with a disturbing event, and are forced to decide how much they should let it disturb their good time.