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A group of childhood friends, Jo, Max, Stevie, Danny, and Alex, are home for the summer and are still not entirely healed from the tragic loss of their friend, Marley. To commemorate their friend's death, they voyage into the mountains to spread her ashes where they are followed by five influential women, Frida Kahlo, Anna Pavlova, Anne Frank, Billie Holiday, and Billie Jean King. These "shadow women" act as unseen guides and mirror them in their dreams, fears, identities, and the disillusionment of womanhood. Through the personification of animals, who speak to them as symbolic entities of the shadow women, they begin to understand their place in the world. "The Smallest Wolves" dives into the female experience, unpacking the prejudices, complexity, and feelings of inadequacy in young women at the cusp of adulthood.

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Inspired by the children's book, "The Rainbabies" by "Laura Krauss Melmed," "An Absence of Rain" focuses on two interlinking throughlines: a married couple, “Maya” and “Caleb,” who are trying to conceive a child through IVF and adoption. The other intersecting storyline focuses around a mother, “Emily,” and her pregnant daughter “Stacy.” The play combines realism and magical surrealism, as Maya has visceral dreams in which the rain has delivered her magical “rain babies” the size of dew drops. Maya begins to lose touch with reality, not being able to make distinctions between real life and dreams. Stacy is an unencumbered, cynical, smart-ass teenager who is pregnant. Emily, her mother, is just trying to move forward after a challenging divorce and an unrelentingly painful past. The two worlds meet when an adoption agent brings them together, hoping that Stacy will consider giving her baby to Maya and Caleb. Rain plays a massive factor in this play, as Maya’s reality begins to match her environment, stuck in a drought, waiting for rain. The play explores the themes of motherhood, miscarriage, the pain of losing children, infertility, and the societal construct that all women are meant to be mothers. It’s a look at the fragility of life, illuminating the struggles and fears surrounding family, identity, marriage, and the expectations of women generationally.

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Amy tries to battle her many different versions of herself, including a manifestation of her depression. Through this non-linear play, we follow Amy and seven different versions of herself that accompany and act as a shadow of all the different things she is. Her repressed memories begin to creep towards the surface. Amy is a dancer, a singer, a writer, a teacher, a student, a girlfriend, an angel, a monster, a mother. As the play moves forward we learn that Amy is controlled by an eighth version of herself, that's been corrupted and polluted by a tragic event in her past.

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"The Quarry" focuses on several separate stories, all taking place in the same location; a quarry in Bennington, Vermont. Through the lens of the "Spider-web" and "Circle structure," It focuses on six different stories in which the people involved have fallen victim to drug abuse. It is a look into small-town America and the opioid and drug epidemic crisis that plagues these rural areas. The quarry acts as a symbolic metaphor for the entrapment, emptiness, and the impending doom that comes from fatal life choices. The play also examines the dichotomy between religious beliefs and human infallibility. It unpacks how ideologies of morals and ethics in primarily Christian belief systems can ultimately lead to toxic and destructive behavior.ere

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"A Ladie's Etiquette to Pearls and Porn" is a satirical look into Hollywood and its sexualization of women through the decades. It centers around the infamous "Duchess of Argyll" Margaret Ethel Campbell. Margaret Campbell was known for her pearls, her affairs, and the scandalous photos of her and a "headless man." This play argues whether the only way women can gain any traction in media is by becoming an object of sexual appeal. Did the "dirty duchess" just pick this up before Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian? Polaroids were in fact, the original sex tapes.

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Jael and Amaris belong to a religious cult in which they cannot escape. Jael wishes to experience the real world, to leave their tyrant of a leader, and experience what it's like to live outside of god's eye. Through scripture, direct address with the audience, blood, violence, ghosts, and trauma, Jael breaks through the emotional and literal confines of religious abuse and discovers what it feels like to finally be free; Yet, this dark and looming presence still haunts her even after escaping the cult.

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John is a serious, rugged, cowboy and Penny is your all-American, sweet-as-cherry-pie, mean as a rabid dog and as pretty as a summer fawn type a' girl. In this monologue, John, in all his unbridled manliness shares his true feelings with Penny. Even the toughest, rowdiest of cowboys can't resist the temptation of a good woman with a dark side. Think a young Clint Eastwood meets Julia Roberts in spurs.

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"Pompous Fucking Circumstacked Against You" is a short play highlighting the disparities in the educational system, such as the IEP program, the inability to foster an inclusive and adaptable education system for all students, and illuminates how there is a certain "box" kids are required to fit into in order to succeed. In "Pompous Fucking Circumstacked Against You" two young people go through the trials and tribulations of their education, both hitting the same milestones, but without the same opportunity. Kids are like plants that must be cared for and nourished in order to grow. Two plants inhabit the stage, one dies in the end, and the other flourishes.

Alex and her mother, Bonnie, sit in the waiting room of a veterinary office, pensively avoiding the truth of the situation at hand. Alex is strung out, and her mother is just trying to contain her own madness. They sit there, under flickering lights, as a parrot chirps insults, waiting to hear if their family dog is going to make it after being run over by a car Alex was driving. Trapped in this confined space in the wee hours of the morning, Alex and her mother are forced to confront one another. Unspoken subjects begin to spill out. This mother/daughter relationship is a look at how the weight of our children's choices can be debilitating. When do we give up on the people we love the most in order to survive ourselves? Bonnie finds that she is at her tipping point.