Plays

A Play By Annie Baker It’s Body Awareness Week at Vermont College. Phyllis, the organizer, and her partner, Joyce, are hosting one of the guest artists in their home: Frank, a photographer famous for his female nude portraits. Mentored by Frank, the couple’s adult son, who may have Asperger’s Syndrome, awakens to his own body’s… Read more »

A COMEDY BY PETER SINN NACHTRIEB A grad student’s online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research lab, but when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Will they survive? And what about fish tank… Read more »

A Play by Conor McPherson THE SEAFARER is a chilling story about the sea, Ireland, and the power of myth. It’s Christmas Eve, and Sharky (Edward McCleod) has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, aging brother (John Craven) who has recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky (Anthony Abate’ and Kevin… Read more »

A Play By Stephen Massicotte MARY’S WEDDING is a brilliant, romantic, historical dream play.  Set during the First World War, MARY’S WEDDING tells the story of Mary (Sharia Pierce) and Charlie (Sam Coughlin), two young lovers in rural Alberta, Canada. From the blossoming of their love on the vast Prairies to the bloody battlefields of… Read more »

Political Farce By Dario Fo Commedia del arte meets the Marx Brothers and Keystone Cops in this uproarious  lampooning of police corruption. A man has fallen (or was pushed?) from a fourth floor window. The suspect is a disguise artist who takes the bumbling police on a side-splitting roller coaster ride of masterful deception.  

A new comedy by Lucas Hnath It has been fifteen years since Nora Helmer left her husband and children for the independence of a single life. What ensues upon her unexpected return is a rollicking battle of the sexes and a fresh new take on Ibsen’s classic drama, “A Doll’s House”.