DESCRIPTION OF WORKS:
Dramedies that examine End-Of-Life Issues, Historical Topics and Sexual Matters.
These pieces are executed through text, song, and movement.
HEALTH CARE ISSUES:
UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE 2040 (full-length play): It’s 2040 and American politics and the newly implemented Universal Health Care system have become bizarrely Orwellian. Two strangers, Gina and Vern, both physicians, from opposing sides of the debate over Universal Health Care, meet by chance. They are forced by a shadowy government agency known as “The Department” into a nightmare of bureaucratic power and politics gone completely out of control. It requires all of Gina’s and Vern’s combined intelligence, strength, and humanity to prevail over the forces threatening them, and to turn Gina’s dream of taking modern medical science in a radical new direction a reality.
UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE 2040 (one-act): It’s 2040 and American politics and the newly implemented Universal Health Care system have become bizarrely Orwellian. Two strangers, Gina and Vern, from opposing sides of the debate over Universal Health Care, meet by chance and in their attempts to learn about and understand one another they begin a journey of self-protection and healing.
LONG TERM CARE Mrs. Pink, a social worker caught between the needs of an individual and the demands of the bureaucracy that employees her; takes Ms. Brown, a family member, on a tour of a long term care facility. The story is told through text, song, and dance.
LIFE SUPPORT examines in a serious/comic way the ethical dilemma and repercussions of keeping someone with "no hope" on life support.
RUFUS TO THE RESCUE involves puppetry of two hound dogs Rufus and Cleopatra. Rufus saves the day and teaches Cleo a thing or two about what’s truly important in life.
HISTORICAL TOPICS:
ROBESON AT PEEKSKILL A woman recounts, through text and song, the importance of Paul Robeson to her mother. It details how the tragic events that occurred at the Robeson concert in Peekskill NY in 1949 affected her mother’s life.
THIS IS FOR YOU DAISY ELLINGTON is a tribute to Duke Ellington’s mother. Daisy Ellington’s spirit is summoned, and learns, through text and music of Duke Ellington (a dozen songs) what she missed of her son’s later life, and how her influence shaped him and his music.
BUTLER’S ISLAND BLUES:The Fanny Kemble Story provides a tour of Butler’s Island, where Fanny Kemble wrote Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, which is said to have influenced England against the Confederacy during America’s Civil war. Fanny Kemble, a 19th Century British Actress, is seen as she struggles to reveal the truth about American slavery and defies the will of her merciless plantation owner husband.
INDIAN LOVE CALL is a one-person-one-act dramedy. The time is always. The Place is The Operating Theatre of The American Think Tank. Dr. I.M. White, a PhD in Cultural Anthropology has been tasked with transforming a Native American, who through an anthropological miracle, has gone untouched by modern civilization since before Columbus discovered America. Dr. I.M. White attempts to change him from head to toe and assimilate him into modern society. This satirical/fantastical story is executed through text, song, percussion, and movement.
SEXUAL MATTERS:
S.I.R. Inc. (Sexual Impulse Rehabilitation Incorporated) Four strangers, all accused of sexual harassment in the workplace, arrive on time to attend their first mandated group therapy session and meet their new therapist. The play follows (in real time) these five surprisingly unique and altogether different individuals through their initial session and shows how circumstances are not always as they first appear, but sometimes they are . . .
Sex Sells! . . . a woman isn't satisfied with being satisfied.
PC Pull-Ups . . .a woman goes to extreme measures to save her marriage and receives surprising help from a stone jade egg.
Boston On Business . . . a woman travels to Boston on business with dreams of romance, but finds herself in the wrong city.
Sex Ed . . .a couple unexpectedly discovers the recipe for great sex.
Welcome to Playland! . . . where a woman's computer expertise heals more than her husband's sexual addiction.
GIFTS FROM THE UNIVERSE:
A GIFT OF MUSIC tells how a six session ukulele class, a free ukulele, and a tree in Central Park unexpectedly provides tranquility, peace and joy.
A SURPRISE GIFT, a theatrical comic monologue, tells the story of getting caught using a student metro card and how getting caught turned out to be a gift in disguise.
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