CONnection
Shortly after publication of her autobiography Lonely Child, in which she describes how she has no family or relatives, Eva Benton receives an astonishing email from a woman in England saying she’s Eva’s aunt. The woman tells Eva that she has a grandmother in England (the mother of Eva’s father), several aunts and uncles, and a bunch of cousins. Eva is ecstatic to think that she has a family after all, but her husband suspects a con game. You don’t find out who’s right until the final scene of the play.
Clear and Present Danger
A schizophrenic teenager tests her parents’ love to the point that something must be done to save the parents if not the girl.
Words
A love story about a young American college student, who meets a young Russian engineer in a deserted eastern European airport during a snowstorm that has cancelled all planes. It’s at the height of the cold war and she is eager to know about communism and he wants to know about democracy. Because neither speaks the other’s language, they are constantly misunderstanding each other until they fall a little bit in love and then they communicate beautifully in more ways than one.
Saintly Mother
A dark comedy about a mother who hopes her physician son will prove his love by refusing to help her commit suicide.
Proper Protocol
A brilliant scientist, who is on the verge of finding a cure for AIDS after violating research protocol, is dismissed by his university, which is more interested in protecting its reputation than saving millions of lives.
The Last Appointment by Don Drake is a three-character mystery about a masculine female detective, a sensitive therapist and a serial killer who murders therapists.
Tom, Dick and Harriet
Harriet is in love with Tom and Dick, and she wants a baby. She knows conception will make one man a father and the other an angry former lover. So, she devises an ingenious plan to get a baby without losing a lover.
Lost at Sea
A dark comedy about a dying playwright who wants to find out which of his three children loves him the most. So he takes them on a cruise and asks them to write his will, but they must unanimously agree on its content before docking in Italy.
The Passage
Set not many years in the future, after assisted-suicide has become legal and a part of the culture, the play focuses on a man preparing for the arrival of the HMO suicide facilitator as the traditional going-away party rages on downstairs.
Oops!
Chuck Golly is running for president. His mother, the former First Lady, thinks he is incompetent and would be a disaster as the commander in chief. She remains silent until it looks like he will win and intends to nuke terrorist regimes.
Heart Throb and High Flyer
A two-character romantic comedy about Jack and Jill, whose marriage is on boring auto-pilot. Desperate to find love, they adopt code names and turn to internet match websites, finding lovers remarkably similar to their spouses.
Gorked!
A romantic comedy about Winnie, an Alzheimer’s patient, who finds joy in a good life relived. Unaware of the vivid inner life Winnie is enjoying and acting out, family members bemoan what seems to them crazy antics.
Final Edition
A veteran, prize-winning journalist is on the verge of breaking the biggest story of his career, but identifying the source would destroy the informant. The editors demand he name the person even though he promised anonymity.
Choices
Aaron Cohen, a very religious Jew, faces a devastating question — which is more important to him, his religion or the life of his son.
Candide Does America
A sequel to the Voltaire classic, in which a modern-day Candide travels throughout the U.S., Antarctica and Iraq to see if this is the best of all possible countries, as his master, Pangloss, insists.
ARIA Play script for stage readings, performance, theater production. Read online. A romantic comedy about an Alice-in-Wonderland world of confused sexual orientation, in which straight and gay are never quite what they appear – a satire of sexual mores.
