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Prop Thtr, Chicago IL

2007

Zombie Fortress Arts Collective

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Comedy/Experimental

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written by Mark Chrisler, Tim Racine, Andrew Schoen and Chris Bower

A play of miscommunications, misrepresentations and creeping illogical chaos brought to you in the avante garde comedy style of Zombie Fortress Arts Collective; the folks behind Our Flat Earth, Christmas: Computerized!!!!!, Blackwood The Radioshack Surveillance Vampire and 365 Days/3,000,000,000 Plays. Chinese Whispers is the smash hit about Santa, Phil Collins, closeted gay cops, urban legends, and mostly just creating the highest joke-to-page ratio possible with the least possible continuity.

Prop Thtr, Chicago IL

2006

A Techtonic Slosh

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Comedy/Experimental

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written by Mark Chrisler and Tim Racine

When Tim Racine discovered one of the worst plays ever "written," he Mark Chrisler set about making it worse. The product of this misguided experiment is Christmas: Computerized!!!!!, a late-night musical-a-go-go-romp-tacular about the wonders of Christmas, technology, commercialism and euthanasia. Conservative Bea is embroiled in a conundrum: namely, to kill her mother or just let her die. She comes to egocentric "heart-throbs" Tim and Mark, for advice. Reminded -- inexplicably -- of the period they spent with Father Time as children, this duo of megalomaniacs begin a retelling of the first Christmas ever, somewhere in the late seventies. With help from Bea and their smart-alecky Butler "Jolson" they imaginact those good old days -- when Father Time ordered his first computer to run the holidays more efficiently. But little will you know when that doesn't happen, because it's surprising.

The Viaduct Theater, Chicago IL

2009

Found Objects Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Dark comedy/drama

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A cheating Civil War photographer battles the Chicago fire, a feminist reporter contemplates her sanity during a madhouse exposé, and a disgraced communist quantum physicist gives a lecture on the theory of everything to an audience which only speaks Portuguese in three short plays about little moments that almost were.

Acme Art Works, Chicago IL

2008

Found Objects Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Dark comedy/drama

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An Increasingly Un-Cordial Invitation (To The Viewing of The Body of "The Great Handcuff King" at 221B Baker Street). The breath-taking, death-defying, hyphenated-adjective-inspiring adventures of the mysteriously animate corpse of Harry Houdini, brought forth for remembrance and clarification of certain matters emotional and philosophical. See myriad wonders for the first time in a single place, including--but never limited to: -The great, guilt-ridden pugilist J. Gordon Whitehead swim a sub-aquatic race with Yahweh, The Great I Am, Father of Abraham, God! -Magician Arthur Ford as he cons his way into your weakened and naive hearts through the modern science of mirrors! -Detective extraordinaire Sherlock Holmes--and his assistant, Dr. Watson--struggle against their own creator, over-esteemed author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! -Ravishing psychic Margery "Mina" Crandon, whose dead brother's hand may appear from within her hallowed nether-regions with only the slightest provocation! -The final escape of Harry Houdini, accompanied by his most fervent denials of the supernatural! -The weakening psyche of Bess Houdini, as her deepest and most profound beliefs are tattered and split by the amazing power of grief! All this and more upon a single, rapidly and inexplicably collapsing stage for your pleasure and benefit.

The Rhinoceros Theatre Festival, Chicago IL

2006

Curious Theatre Branch

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Solo/Monologue

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Was Quantum Leap actor Dean Stockwell the most imporant figure in both scientific and literary history? Through studies of such diverse topics as nuclear geo-politics, quantum mechanics, game theory, obsessive-compulsive disorder, the Firebombing of Kobe and the game of cricket, author Mark Chrisler comes upon a suspicion that attempting to scientifically validate absurdism might lead to optimistic results. In this lecture-style solo show, he proves himself very, very wrong.

Prop Thtr, Chicago IL

2006

The Iconoclasts

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Comedy/Satire

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written by Mark Chrisler and Tim Racine

Mark and Tim are the proud and mysterious fundamentalist parents of a lovely teenage slut, but doubting the virtues of her "liberal" education, they go about transforming her life-and the lives of their audiences--with the True message of their faith: The Earth is flat.

Prop Thtr, Chicago IL

2007

Found Objects Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Black Comedy/Drama

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Spring-boarding off of Poe's Al Aaraaf, Hobbes' Leviathan and The 22nd Psalm, Teatime at Golgotha presents "a heady, wittily self-effacing drama" about the unenviable search for meaning in what is-in all likelihood-a cold, cold world. Following the stories of Longinus after the crucifixion, the last hours in the life of astronomer Tycho Brahe and a modern day hostage situation, Teatime leaps back and forth through the millenia drawing meanings, parallels and conclusions that the characters themselves characteristically fail to notice.

Rhinoceros Theatre Festival, Chicago IL

2007

Found Objects Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Dark comedy/drama

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If rewrites of "A Doll's House" are a dime a dozen, Chrisler's Torvald and I must be worth at least a sixpence. In this attempt to-alternately-pretentiously rewrite the last scene of Ibsen's masterpiece and super-pretentiously rewrite his forward for his pretentious rewrite of the last scene of Ibsen's masterpiece, Chrisler comes up with the best comedic post-feminist deconstruction that 19th-century realism can offer. Caution: Against all efforts to the contrary, there may be nudity. And birds.