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When a freshman is unexpectedly given the coveted role of Lady Macbeth, a few upperclassmen actresses invite her over to celebrate her casting and reassert their positions at the top of the theatre department’s hierarchy. As the Fireball and Svedka flow, the girls interrogate their own sense of ambition as well as the power structures that have shaped their theatrical education.
Photo by Dave Kagan, Sensitography
Mary is an expectant mother. Mary gives birth to a rabbit. Mary must adjust her expectations.
A piercing fable about the wonder and brutality of motherhood, cunnicularii interrogates the crushing pressure faced by new parents and questions how much of ourselves we can truly give to our offspring.
Photo by Nina Goodheart
A play about Bad Art Friends, that feeling when your college roommates are getting engaged and you’ve never actually had a boyfriend, and whether or not sharing a vibrator collection means you’re officially co-dependent.
Photo by Nina Goodheart
After an unfortunately-timed nuclear apocalypse strands the staff of Camp Aster in the Maine wilderness, the team of young employees must fight for survival while navigating shifting hierarchies of leadership and disaster after endless disaster.
After committing a DUI, a young woman is assigned to work with a local roadkill collector as part of her community service sentence. As the pair traverse the highways of rural Wisconsin, they find common ground in their status as outsiders while challenging each other on questions of family loyalty, personal responsibility, and what we owe to the creatures with whom we share our world.
It is 1963, and robotic engineer Martin has brought a prototype robot named Nora—the most authentically humanoid model created to date—to his home in the suburbs of Chicago to help make up for the lackluster parenting efforts of his wife. His daughter Ruth is unnerved by the robot, and even more disturbed by its uncanny similarities to her real mother.