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Rash Acts:
18 Snapshots for the Stage
 Eighteen micro-plays, drawn from the best of the Eye's repertory over a 20-year span. Rash Acts' innovative style and use of language carve out new territory for the American short play. —Jon Jory, Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Mating Cries
A medley of six micro-plays celebrating the lust, love, comedy and wonder of human bonding. Five years in The Independent Eye's touring repertory. 1m/1w or larger cast; unit set.
Loveplay
Two acts; 3w/1m; multi-location unit set. A realistic comedy about sex, open relationships, fleas and commitment. A middle-aged female couple, Liddie and Janelle, deeply committed to one another, face a crisis over differing views of "monogamy." A young man and woman are shaken by an unplanned pregnancy; the young woman, in a search for roots, locates her natural mother, the free-wheeling half of the elder duo, who's not the conventional image of Mom. The play examines potentials in all relationships for lasting bonds. Presented by The Independent Eye, 1994. |
Seismic Stages:
Five Plays for Teens
 Three one-acts, including A Friend from High School, Get Happy, and Success, plus Family Snapshots and Dividing Lines, a medley of 30 micro-plays. These pieces for the stage range from the comic pathos of a widower bedeviled by telemarketers, to the stark confession of a man who has murdered a young boy, to the farcical warfare between four sets of apartment-dwellers, and more. Seismic Stages is highly recommended for school and community theatrical collections and is enhanced with prefaces revealing how the individual pieces were engendered and suggestions for staging them. —Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review
Marie Antoinette
Two acts; 1m/2w, 2 mimes; unit set. A chronicle of the fanciful, extravagant Austrian child-bride, intended to seal the alliance of historical enemies France and Austria, who became symbol both of corrupt oppression and the bloodiness of revolution. The play uses masks, sound, and shadow to portray a society on its dazzling rococo promenade into the abyss. Independent Eye, 1987, and Jean Cocteau Repertory, 1994.
Full Hookup
Two acts; 2m/3w; unit set. Rosie, a woman in her fifties, finds a purpose in her fragmented life through dedication to proving the innocence of the man who murdered her daughter. Produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, Circle Repertory, Theatre X and others.
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