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Water Buffalo

 

In a tragic instance of Synchronicity Gone Wrong, independent but lovelorn Eve is swept off her feet and impulsively marries Thomas, a dashing genius who insists that he loves her - only to discover that he is also an anti-social and emotionally abusive megalomaniac.  Unfortunately, Eve becomes increasingly determined to make the marriage work. 

(Dark Comedy/Absurdist Love-Story-Gone-Wrong, 1998 revised 2005)

 

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Tower of Babble

 

Viel and Kitreck Awaken in an endless expanse of darkness which might be Hell, and pass the time by intermittently talking to a stone and fighting with each other.  Slowly they become aware of someone or something “pulling the strings” culminating in a mind-blowing epiphany.  An optimistic existentialist’s response to Sartre’s No Exit.  (Existential Romp, 1999)

 

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Epicenter – A Psychodrama of Paradigm Shifts

 

Out-of-Time Epic in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht, in which old world secret societies, new age transcendentalism, and sentient computer programs mingle and cross-multiply; a dangerous game of human evolution, set against the rolling golden lights of San Francisco.  A sort of love story for the 21st century… 

(Post-Modern Epic, 2001. revised 2007)

 

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Go Time Machine, Go!  (One-act)

 

One day, Joe and Deena, while walking through the woods, stumble upon a time machine and are sucked into an absurdly complicated journey spanning six dimensions of spacetime, many of them incomprehensible to the 20th century human mind.  While Joe, Deena, Beth, Thigaro, Meredith and Walker try to find their way out of this mess, their guides, Orias and Ebulon – who are five dimensional beings- struggle with being crammed into three dimensional consciousness - all the result of a six-dimensional rupture in spacetime– meanwhile the Time Machine just wants to get Home!

(A Dramedy in Six Dimensions, 2002)

 

This play is best understood when read out-loud or staged – without eight confused voices, it can be a little hard to follow…

 

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Quanta – A Play for Three (Short)

 

The lives of Arron, Victoria, and Isis play out in two different quantum realities simultaneously – the slightest alterations rippling into worlds of difference.  (Drama, 2001)

 

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The Graft  (Short)

 

Newlyweds Bob and Meryll, while walking through the forest on their honeymoon, stumble across three individuals, gagged and bound together on the forest floor.  Unfortunately, bleeding-heart Meryll decides to ungag one of them, Shana, who quickly brings them up to speed: “THE FATE OF THE WORLD RESTS IN YOUR HANDS!”  (Comedy, 2000)

 

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"Short Play" (Short)

 

A soulful little slice of life in a peaceful forest glade; it dislikes being described. (Drama, 2004)

 

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Full Length Play (Short)

 

Overture for an Elaborate Epic, best left to the imagination.  (Comedy, 2005)

 

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