plays
THE CALLING
90 min, drama
THE CALLING examines the relationship between social services, capitalism, and violence in the united states of america. Over an unpredictably cold winter in the rural Northeast, three domestic violence agency workers deal with budget cuts, burnout, secondary trauma, and a last-resort-fundraiser-talent-show-for-the-rich. This play asks us how we can expect individuals to solve the issue of domestic violence when it’s steeped in capitalism and patriarchy and racism and homophobia; and when we, the united states, are the biggest perpetrator of violence in the world.
THE SCOUTS OF AMERICA DON’T SELL COOKIES, B*TCH
90 min, absurdist dark comedy
THE SCOUTS OF AMERICA DON’T SELL COOKIES, B*TCH interrogates the relationship between capitalism and violence through the lens of american youth. This 90-minute dark comedy is about a girl named Effie, a scrappy eleven-year-old, who decides to join the Scouts of America during the summer of 2024. Excited to learn new skills, Effie enters with an intensity that surprises her troop leader, Joe, and scares some of her fellow scouts. As she traverses this unfamiliar landscape, she battles assumptions and underestimations of her personhood.
THE BOX OFFICE
95 min, dark comedy
It’s opening night of La Bohème and Box Office Assistant, Jess, has to make a choice. Does she attend her stepfather’s funeral the next day or stay behind in the Box? THE BOX OFFICE asks the question: who is allowed to grieve and for whom and what?
Check out this article in Burlington Free Press about the show.
SCHOOL UPON A HILL
12 min, dark comedy
SCHOOL UPON A HILL is about a group of high school girl/femme/nb students as they organize and implement a large-scale fundraiser for “underprivileged children” at their liberal, hippie, “do-good” school.
ADIRONDACK CHAIR MISSING PLEASE RETURN OR ELSE!
90 min, farcical tragedy
One fine summer morning in Podunk Vermont, June Daly goes berserk after finding out her very sturdy, very homemade adirondack chair has gone missing. Desperate, she enlists the help of her 90 year old neighbor Boris, and a 15 year old girl named Addy to figure out who stole it. A really fun PTSD play!
R.I.P. BILLY
10 min, melodrama
Harrold and Alda are in the throes of grief as they host a Catholic wake and funeral for their son, Billy. Extended family gathers together to honor Billy’s memory, but nothing is quite as it seems as each family member attempts to (re)connect and mourn with one another.