Carrie's Fishing
by Nathan Breskin-Auer; directed by Cara Anderson
CARRIE'S FISHING is the third of four in The Dave
Chronicles, the first two being ODES and GABRIEL/JOY. Each
play details a small portion of the life of each of four
band members from the exceptionally-short-lived college
band Dave. They each maintain a two-act structure with a
musical entr'acte in place of a full intermission, as well
direct asides from principle characters (in CARRIE'S
FISHING, only Carrie will be given this liberty). Confined
to a salmon toller running out of Sitka, AK, CARRIE’S
FISHING pits Carrie - an ex-model frustrated with,
controlled by, and desperate to escape the masks people
place on her due her looks - against her overbearing and
self-victimizing mother Jacqueline. Thrown in to the middle
of it all is first time deckhand Salvador "Will" Canas, a
father and faithful husband trying to atone for a crime he
never committed.
Egypt on the Mother Road
by Wesley Middleton; directed by Kassie Misiewicz
Egypt on the Mother Road is a mythic adventure set in the
glittery, decaying American Southwest. Lula, age 12, lives
in Vera, an abandoned Arizona town, once a popular stop on
Route 66. Lula’s legendary mother, Reva, once performed as
Lady Isis, Psychic Seer at the Osiris Casino in Las Vegas.
When she came to Vera to live with her sister Maylene, Reva
opened the Euphrates Café and told the town she would bring
back its former fame by telling fortunes there.
Reva died in a car crash when Lula was six, the same crash
that left Maylene in a coma. Since then, Lula has lived
with her Uncle Carr, who runs the Motel Unique, and her
cousin Goo, Maylene’s son, an 8-year-old boy with showgirl
dreams. Lula takes refuge in Egypt, an imaginary world she
created with her mother in the junkyard behind the motel.
She tells herself she is a daughter of Osiris and charms
the town with messages from Reva’s ghost.
But one morning Lula wakes to find nothing’s as it should
be. Unlike other Egyptian goddesses, she appears to be
menstruating. Mrs. Crane at the General Store won’t give
her anything for free. And Uncle Carr informs her that he’s
selling the Motel Unique, dismantling Egypt, and moving her
and Goo to Phoenix as soon as he returns from a business
trip.
To save the town and herself, Lula decides she must
retrieve the Falcon of the Nile, the magic bird that her
mother once used to tell fortunes at the Osiris Casino. She
will bring it back, make Carr re-open the Euphrates Café,
and put Vera back on the map.
When a young, androgynous stranger jumps off the freight
train that runs behind the motel, Lula decides names him
Jimmy Re (after James Dean and the Egyptian sun god) and
convinces him to “borrow” her uncle’s car and drive her to
Las Vegas. Jimmy Re has his own reasons for going, as does
Goo, who hides in the back seat despite Lula’s insistence
that he stay behind. As their adventure in the glitter city
unfolds, each makes a surprising discovery. Goo finds a key
to his future; Re crashes into a wake-up call. Lula
realizes that her own sense of the truth is more compelling
than her myth of her mother. And the three return to Vera
with a new bond that is stronger than the pull of the past.
Daughters of Catastrophe
by S.P. Miskowski; directed by J. Daniel Stanley
In her parents‚ Manhattan apartment, 15-year-old Ella keeps
a diary of liaisons with her beloved father, a once
powerful CEO. Meanwhile, Ella‚s mother plots to install her
new lover, a male fashion model, as man of the house.
Even with a maid at her beck and call, Seattle housewife
Paula can‚t get the attention she deserves. She shops,
works out, and sees a specialist for every part of her
body. But something is missing until her stepson moves in
for a visit.
Aging Hollywood star Madeline Hogan decides to give
marriage and motherhood a try after her career stalls and a
young hunk appears in her life.
An erotic retelling of Electra, Phaedra, and Medea by S.P.
Miskowski, whose work includes La Valse and The Red Room.
Daughters of Catastrophe is directed by J. Daniel Stanley.
C-M-F
by Bill Ratcliffe; directed by Chris Comte
When an
environmental activist is killed by a hit-and-run SUV, the
driver finds himself sucked into an eco-terrorist
romance.
love play
by Stephanie Timm; directed by Darien Lindle
- a pitch black ladies room comedy in two acts
Something ominous is occurring in the luxurious ladies room
of Hotel Vacancy in secret: a love affair with a janitor,
an underground meeting of murderesses, a duplicitous ruse
that plays out its uncompromising conclusion, and behind it
all, Sister Lottie-Limerick Peevy, omniscient and
ever-influential spirit and serial killer from days of old,
watches with ill-omened eyes from her portrait which hangs
on the wall.
