Full Length Plays
DECADENTS
GONE WILDE
Genre: Dark Comedy/Historical
Cast Breakdown: 3m, 1f
Run Time: ~90 mins + intermission
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Synopsis: It is London in 1886, the year after Oscar Wilde’s for the crime of gross indecency which resulted in his incarceration. Wilde’s closest friend and confidante, Robbie Ross, has spent the year since his imprisonment searching for ways to get the acclaimed playwright released. At last, Robbie receives news that all his hard work might be coming to fruition and that he might have secured Wilde’s release. What should be a simple task of avoiding scandals, however, explodes into chaos as Wilde’s wife and his boyfriend plot schemes to ensure that they are the only one who owns Wilde’s heart.
THE AMERICAN TRAGEDY:
A COMEDY
Genre: Dark Comedy/Satire
Cast Breakdown: 1m, 6f, 1 flex
Run Time: ~90 mins + intermission
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Synopsis: A ghost, Tessa, and her guardian enter the home of the ghost’s ex-girlfriend. Before long, her ex, Pauline Loveless, returns with her old high school clique, humiliated that her fundraiser has failed and threatened by the looming specter of graduate school admissions boards. Tessa learns of her former friends' roles in her death four years earlier and watches helplessly as they decide the best course of action is to murder another person and capitalize off their death too. From that point on, they host a Murder Party in which they all invite a guest with the intent of murdering one of them by the end of the night. Of course, paranoia, Tessa’s memory, and overall chaos intervene, turning the Murder Party into an all-out Bacchanalian Festival of Death.
THE LILY
AND
THE MANTIS
Genre: Dark Comedy/Satire
Cast Breakdown: 3m, 4f
Run Time: ~90 mins + intermission
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Synopsis: Chaos has struck the Mantis family: Daley, Indiana's most prominent and prestigious household. When their maid is discovered brutally murdered in their gardens, the responsibility falls to the ruthless matriarch, Mara Mantis, to prevent the impending scandal from tarnishing the Mantis family name, a task easier said than done while a scheming neighbor, homosexual relations, and overall incompetency threaten to create even more damaging scandals. Mara begins to realize that perhaps the only way to cover up the murder... is with more murder.
THE RUINS
OF
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S
Genre: Drama
Cast Breakdown: 3m, 2f
Run Time: ~100 mins + intermission
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Synopsis: Sister Clara is a nun wracked with guilt-- guilt that has haunted her for one hundred years. After being seduced by a student and driven to suicide, Clara's spirit has lingered in the ruins of St. Bartholomew's Catholic school undisturbed for almost a century. But when college student Montgomery wanders into the ruined chapel and begins to follow the same self-destructive path that led to Clara's own ruination, the nun is forced to confront the demons that have laid dormant since her death.
HELLFIRE
Genre: Dark Comedy
Cast Breakdown: 4m, 4f
Run Time: ~90 mins + intermission
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Synopsis: Best friends Ember, condemned for adultery, and Ash, condemned for being gay, have begun to grow accustomed to their lives in Hell, lives filled with wild ragers at Lucifer's personal mansion and any other form of hedonism imaginable. But their friendship begins to feel the strain as both are enraptured in their own afterlife dramas. The arrival of Ember's niece forces her to grapple with the events that damned her to Hell while a recent edict issued by the new liberal pope gives Ash what everyone in Hell could only dream of: a chance to get to Heaven.