CALIFORNIA
A family road trip takes an unexpected turn when in the dark of night, on the plains of eastern Oregon, reality splits.
MAGIC VALLEY COMMUNITY THEATRE'S LITTLE WOMEN
(by Trish Harnetiaux + Liza Birkenmeier)
It’s closing night of Magic Valley Community Theatre’s production of Little Women. Will personal ambitions get in the way of bringing their masterpiece to nationals in Rochester?
TIN CAT SHOES
Blessed with the can-do American spirit, a troop of dedicated shoe store workers embark on a madcap odyssey of personal (employer-mandated) expansion. But when "work is your life" and systems breakdown, all that remains is you, some nachos, and the truth.
BENDER AND BRIAN
Not many know the true story of Bender and Brian. Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall were not the first actors cast in John Hughes' iconic movie The Breakfast Club. Initially, two other actors played the roles, but were fired after an altercation that occurred while filming the scene when they go to take their jackets off at the same time. This pivotal day was, well, pivotal for our original Bender and Brian, as they went on to live their lives together. This is their story.
WEREN'T YOU IN MY SCIENCE CLASS?
Remember when you ran into Irene Cunningham? Yeah, from high school. So funny seeing her at the bank all these years later... and during a robbery (what are the odds!). A play about how big things can lurk beneath small talk and how totally awful friendship is when you forget to be friends. Because, let's face it - the past isn't always pretty.
HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS
Roger and Lucy meet at a convention. Daphne and Nick break down at a diner. Ethan continues to read compulsively from his new book, The Car Accident. As the Doctor/Waiters spin around us (not to mention the Old Woman on the phone with Lucy) it's soon apparent that reality is slippery, time is shifting, and we join our characters struggle with their own discovery about love, opportunity, and a desire to pause with trepidation as they try to articulate who and what they actually love.
WELCOME TO THE WHITE ROOM
Lost and confused, a trio of strangers attempt to make sense of the escalating mystery behind their surroundings with only their instincts, wit, and sexuality. Escape is futile and Deep Learning has come...Welcome to the White Room.
IF YOU CAN GET TO BUFFALO
Few know that way back in the day, 1993 to be exact, a text-based social network "mansion" called LambdaMOO was hijacked by a "Mr. Bungle," who singlehandedly detonated the new world utopia by misbehaving most grievously at a virtual party. Somewhat based on the real story of the first instance of virtual rape, the attempt to deal with the perpetrator and the awkward Charlie Rose episode that followed, Mr. Bungle and the Incident at LambdaMOO explores our fascination with hiding behind a keyboard, the impulse to be bad, and the anonymity that made it all possible.
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YOUR PRETTY LITTLE WORLD
Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Bird's Nest
Elizabeth Richmond is led, after a series of disquieting events, to a psychiatrist who discovers that her mind is divided among, and tortured by, four separate and strong-willed personalities. Hers is a story of survival, a young woman's journey into the different parts of her true self - the innocent, the provocateur, the injured, the playful. It's a story of questions - How did her mother die? What is it that Aunt Morgen wants? In whose interest is Dr. Wright's treatment? Can Elizabeth control her personality shifts? What really happened in New York and who in the hell was robin? This is suspenseful and unnerving - a slanted, shifting reality, that places the audience in the center of the swirling kaleidoscope.