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Bandicoot

Characters: 2 (2 men)
Length: 1 Acts - (run time; ~45 min)
Period: Contemporary
Set: Simple - no set pieces
Synopsis: Two friends have to take a train to Hollywood to coerce a celebrity to give them a Bible so they can pray to Jesus so that Jesus Christ will tell them where the Sears Tower is so they can steal it and become famous criminals.
Language: Very Dirty

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Him & Her

Characters: 2 (1 man, 1 woman)
Length: 2 Acts - (run time; ~45 min)
Period: Contemporary
Set: 2 chairs ; minimal
Synopsis: Vignettes from a relationship from beginning to end...backward.
Language: Mild

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Chasing Dumb

Characters: 4 (2 men 2 women)
Length: 2 Acts - (run time; ~70 min)
Period: Contemporary
Set: Simple - chairs
Synopsis: One pursuit, two acts. A Dark Comedy. Act 1, Local Interest - Four teenagers set out on a warm spring night in search of a retarded boy who's disappeared. They wrestle through the underbelly of a small town, urgent to find him before it's too late. Act 2, Hollywood Heat - A writer hits the pinnacle of his career, only to disappear. Four actors play multiple characters.
Language: Mild

Musical Comedy

Kink

Characters: 3 (2 women)
Length: 2 Acts - (run time; ~115 min)
Period: Contemporary
Set: Simple - table, 5 chairs
Synopsis: Sexual repression is alive and well in suburbia. Mom is a closet dominatrix and Dad is a closet cross-dresser. Their daughters, Julie and Tammy, are getting to that age where clothes may not be the only hang-ups in their closets. Homecoming is just around the corner - Julie's got a date and Tammy's one-woman tour-de-force is sure to a hit.
Language: Racy

Musical Comedy

Co-Ed Prison Sluts

Characters: 10 (7 men 2 women 1 dog)
Length: 2 Acts -(run time; ~100 min)
Period: Contemporary
Set: Simple - 2 chairs, small table
Synopsis: The residents of a Co-ed Prison struggle to get along in the midst of their overwhelming fear of a clown.
Language: Very Dirty

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Lights Out Alma

Characters: 3 (3 women)
Length: 2 Acts - (run time; ~60 min)
Period: 1800's
Set: Simple - chairs
Synopsis: This erie, dark comedy covers murder, betrayl, and sisterhood. Lights Out Alma is the story of an unorthodox trifecta of women and the limits that they go to in the name of sisterhood.
Language: Mild

Musical Comedy

Flames & Blazes

Characters: 6(4 men 2 women)
Length: 2 Acts -(run time; ~100 min)
Period: 1920's
Set: Simple - Bench, chairs
Synopsis: Set in 1928 in the "unburnable" Weisscastle Hotel at the most exclusive New Years Eve party in town. When the unburnable hotel begins to burn guests and servants alike are trapped high above the unrelenting blaze. Blinded by their own self-interests, they convince themselves everything will be all right when everything has already gone horribly wrong.
Language: Clean

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Tommy's Place

Characters: 3 (2 men, 1 woman)
Length: 2 Acts - (run time; ~90 min)
Period: Contemporary
Set: Simple small apartment; needs window
Synopsis: A neighborhood advocate, a pizza delivery boy and an ex-dock worker...each of them lonely and starving for connection, unexpectedly find themselves together at Tommy's Place...through no choice of their own.
Language: Mild

 

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