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2002

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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

85 minutes, Surrealist Political Dark Comedy of Subversion

Play/Drama

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Synopsis: a Dr. Strangelove for the new millennium, where an idiot (white) king silences brown citizens, and cultures clash as lawn darts fall on the New Holy Roman Empire.

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Original Works

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Comedy

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Synopsis: A couple inadvertently desecrate two graves and are subject to violent hauntings

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2003

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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

80 minutes, Ritual in transfigured time

Play/Drama

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Synopsis: Airplane as metaphor for liminal space

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2002

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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

90 minutes, dark surreal comedy

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Synopsis: 2 out of work actors of color discover a large head of Marlon Brando in their bathtub

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1999

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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

90 minutes, Psychotropic mythopoetic comedy

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Synopsis: The Corn Mothers" is an homage/assault on the Faust story, where our protagonist, a book-maker named Anita Furst, is driven to a world of high finance, through a misunderstood pact with a Hungarian demon named Meshe. As Anita rises, unwillingly, up the ladder of corporate life, the universe is literally recreated around her, while her closest friends plot a quiet revolution (the revolution involves turning human flesh into corn, since corn has a better track record than human beings, cosmologically speaking). The journey is philosophically guided by Anita's search for the reasons for the unminting of the Susan B. Anthony dollars (of course, the Freemasons are behind it all). The search grows darker and more hallucinatory as the play progresses, and Anita is faced with the certainty of her own re-renunciation of the life she didn't want in the first place, in favor of life as a piece of corn.

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2005

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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

80 minutes, Bilingual transfigured anti-war ritual

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Synopsis: Father figure haunts Mother and Old Daughter in Spanish and English

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2002

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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

60 minutes, Fully mediatized performance piece

One Act

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Notes: written by Chris Danowski and Lance Gharavi

Synopsis: a theater piece that is designed to break barriers in art and technology. It simultaneously draws on ancient oral texts and the internet, as a metaphorical referece to the modern condition. Its theme is isolation, and our intent is to remove the barrier between subject and object. It is, in essence, a love story, told through stereoscopic screens, virtual reality, floor sensors, and other new media technologies.

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1998

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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

90 minutes, surreal comedy

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Synopsis: A sharp, comic burst of theater that plays with the idea of identity. Through rational and metaphysical twists of event, the 6 characters find themselves involved in a very mysterious situation. Iya Egbe, a woman with one foot in this world, and one foot in another, seems to have an idea that things are not what they seem, and weaves disparate lives together. Joy, the hero, finds himself replaced by a replica, and literally locked out of his life. The alternate Joy begins to relive and reclaim memories of a life, while her partner Sam, dreams of chickens. Rudy, a Mayan astronomer, becomes the ancient figure Hunapu, and partners with a Private Dick. The nature of the universe is exploded, and things turn upside down in a firework display of language and image.

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1996

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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

65 minutes, solo performance piece

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Synopsis: Solo show about travels in Southern Mexico after the Zapatista uprising

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2000

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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

90 minutes, surreal comedy

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Synopsis: a biting and surrealistic re-imagining of motherhood, falling firmly in the school of magical postmodernism (formed after the anthropologist & ritual performance specialist Emir Santiago, longtime friend of Theater In My Basement/SW Annex). The baby (Gitanes, named after the French cigarette) is born speaking complex feminist theory, and eats her mother's breast every day. The husband can't wake up. The mother attempts to track her own identity, which behaves sometimes like a particle & sometimes like a wave. The placenta comes back to haunt the family with gifts of lasagne.

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1999

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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

90 minutes Hyper-poetic repetition

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Synopsis: This hyper-poetic ritual for the stage is a story of cultural memory in a culture of forgetting. It takes place in the apartment of Harry, a white, pot-smoking, groovy guy obsessed with Ed Ames (the actor who played Mingo on Daniel Boone). He is visited by two friends, Jep Faulkner, an African-American man who's been having unseetling premonitions about getting shot & dying, and Jenna, an Irish-American jacked up on coffee & the burden of strage dreams.

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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

80 minutes, solo performance piece

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Synopsis: An intense investigation into the nature of memory and ghosts, UnderFlood creates an oddly familiar world of rituals, talking radios, and bad Gaelic stereotypes. In this world, as in all worlds, every ancestor has left a mark, traceable in the air, the water, in earth, fire and ether. Plus, it's got a cool soundscape, a bit of keening, exquisite video imagery, and it's dead funny.