Circe
Three ancient plays about Circe have been lost to time - so let’s try this again. This is the story of Circe, direct from the pigpen, according to the chorus of women who actually knew her. You most likely know her as the sorceress who turned Odysseus’ men to pigs and then slept with him for a year. And sure, it was a good year - but that’s certainly not where the story ends. You know what, we’ll just tell you ourselves! But better keep up - we’ve only got a certain amount of time before Hermes shows up and starts talking shit…
Cast size: 5 (4W, 1 any gender)
Length: ~75min
Genre: Modern myth, lo-fi, trunk show
Age Recommendation: Teen+
In development - partial premier at UMKC (5/9/24)
This is How I’m Crazy
In the seemingly empty vacuum of a breakup, is it possible to be your own soulmate? Do you like yourself enough to attempt it? This play cycles through destruction, grief, hope, joy, and the tiny little voice that could help you survive the whole ordeal. And while we’re talking about cycles, let’s move through one that only half the population regularly experiences…
Cast size - 1W
Length - 20min
Genre - autobiographical solo show, poetic, female stories
Age Recommendation - Teen+
Written at From the Ground Up, workshopped at Charlotte Street Foundation
S.A.L.T
A solo musical written during the height of the pandemic about the wonders of salt. We go on a research journey alongside the performer as she learns about salt and only salt. There will be no self-reflecting, learning about herself, or losing her mind. It is not a play about her, or the pandemic, but it may accidentally be a play about the realities of Surviving Alone Long Term. Oops.
Cast size - 1 (any gender)
Length - 20min
Genre - dark comedy, musical, existential
Age Recommendation - Teen+
Developed at From The Ground Up
The Story Tent
A one on one experience between a “performer” and an “audience member” to be performed on the sidewalk in a small fort. The performer and audience member collaboratively tell a story through a series of written instructions.
Cast size - 1 (any gender)
Length - varies per person, one at a time ~2-10min per audience member
Genre - participatory, performance art, communal storytelling
Age recommendation - All ages
Developed with support from Risk/Reward in Portland, OR
Tidal
A modern fable about how stories have a way of accumulating in magical places: between layers of sediment, in the roots of old trees, washed up on the beach after years in the ocean. Tidal weaves together three different stories of Point Reyes National Seashore: a Yurok tale of a young woman who journeys to the edge of the ocean; the story of Clem Miller, the congressman who protected the land from development in the 1960s; and a mostly true, only slightly exaggerated first-hand account of the magic you can encounter when you go exploring in the wild.
Cast size - 4 (any gender)
Length - 60min
Genre - magical realism, high imagination, audience participation
Age recommendation: All ages