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BRAINS
(2F, 2M), 1 hr
In a jaded world, one physician makes a groundbreaking discovery--that the human body has two brains.  Her instantaneous celebrity attracts three devoted followers, each with a problem that she promises to cure with her next discovery.  Yet as the hour of unveiling approaches, her followers begin to doubt her claims.  Will the bombastic doctor overcome the drunken euphoria of diagnosis to heal her flock?

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
(2F, 7M), 1 hr
Randall has one more mission. When bombs shudder the plane, reality bleeds into nightmares. Live music and an ensemble cast take a magical realist journey into one of WWII's most unforgettable battles - examining the personal impact of institutionalized violence.

Great Eastern
(2F, 2M), 1 hr 30 min
Every 17 years, Baltimore is swarmed with millions of periodical cicadas that molt, fly, and sing in a desperate mating ritual of apocalyptic proportions.  And every 17 years, the Entomology department at a Baltimore university echoes with the not-quite-forgotten secrets of the past.

In Quietness

(3F, 2M), 1 hr 20 min

A former CEO follows her born-again husband to a Southern Baptist seminary. There she enrolls as a student at the Homemaking House, the nation's premier training ground for future homemakers and a place where marital bliss means never having to say thank you for cleaning the toilet.

The Pillow Book
(2F, 1M), 1 hr 20 min
Deb and John are married. Deb and John are strangers. Deb saves John's life on a mountain. John blinds Deb on the Serengeti. John works at an office. John works at a different office. Deb is a doctor, or an exterminator. The Pillow Book is a journey through the real, the imagined, the absurd, and the parallel.


Short:

Commencement
(1F), 20 min
A site-specific piece for a kitchen and a soon-to-be graduate of a liberal arts college.

Frogman
(developed with Meredith Steinberg)
(2F), 20 min
Look, we have to talk. The
re's someone else, and he's a singing frog. Sometimes even the best relationships have to come to an end. A theater/dance/amphibious extravaganza.

GORMANZEE
(1F, 1M, 4+ M/F), 15 min
A macabre puppet comedy.

Gross Domestic Product
(3F, 1M), 10 min
The recession has hit the Wallace family. Grandma lost her house, Ted's internet start-up is tanking, Emily's grades are slipping, and Christine is just trying to hold it all together.

Hit Me
(3M), 10 min
Three ways to self destruct.