The Plays

Love Alone

A drama
4 W/ 2 M
After a routine medical procedure goes tragically wrong, a lawsuit ensues and the lives of both the patient's family and the doctor charged with her care are transformed. A lovingly drawn portrait of how we grieve and how we heal.

Good Business

A dark comedy
3 W/ 2 M
Mrs. McBride owns and runs the most successful farm in the county. With hopes of becoming the most profitable farm in the state, she brings in a refugee to increase her productivity. However, the other workers on the farm are not ready to accept the stranger. Can he be trusted? Set in North Carolina in the 1950's — yet speaking to today's vitriolic debates over immigration and religious difference — Good Business asks how we distinguish insiders from outsiders, and raises disquieting questions about the dynamics of power.

Some Things Are Private

A surreal docu-drama
3 W/ 2 M
When an artist photographs her family, are the images intimate or indecent? Are they exploitations or expressions of love? When American photographer Sally Mann published and sold the images she created of her naked children playing at their summer cabin, she ignited a debate that has now raged for two decades. Conjuring her from the public record, this play pits Mann against the fictional character Thomas Kramer. Their clash of beliefs and desires leads to unexpected places, and ultimately reveals how provocative Mann's images of her children remain today.

Credits: Created by Deborah Salem Smith and Laura Kepley; Written by Deborah Salem Smith; Directed by Laura Kepley

Boots on the Ground

A docu-drama
2 W/ 3 M
True stories, real voices. This 90-minute play is distilled from 200 hours of interviews of nearly 70 soldiers and their families, medical workers, journalists, ministers, and others. Rather than ask why we went to war in Iraq, Boots on the Ground invites us to see who has been affected. The result is a riveting study of intimacy and what war does to a person's core relationships. The war has come home.

Credits: Created by Laura Kepley and D. Salem Smith; Written by D. Salem Smith; Directed by Laura Kepley

Lady Writing

A farce
3 W/ 3 M
Why would one painting get stolen not once, not twice...but four times? Inspired by the true story of a series of robberies that occurred at a private art collection outside Dublin, Ireland.

Caviar

A one act
2 W/ 2 M
A daughter brings her new boyfriend to brunch to meet her parents. Her parents put on a show she will never forget.

The Brothel Laundryman

A play in verse
4 W/ 4 M The tenants in Eden quit their gardening and struggle to remain calm when one Eve notices changes in her body. To avoid chaos, they vote to expel this Eve and her Adam. The couple leaves Eden and creates a modern, domestic life for themselves. Yet no amount of order can slow the disease inside Eve's body, portrayed by a surreal chorus — a brothel of women endlessly waiting for the Laundryman to come with clean sheets.

Scenery of Her Intentions

A performance piece
1 W
A riff on T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." One woman remembers a party. Or is it that she remembers her memories of that party?