The stories we tell matter.
A crescent moon is projected on the back wall of the stage. The sounds of night. Cicadas, owls hooting, a slight breeze. Spotlight up on a woman at her desk, typing on a laptop. Lights down. Spotlight up on a… Read morePlay a Day: Night Owls
A woman sits with a notepad, tapping a pencil on the paper. No words come.
Someone sits, staring at a clock. They stand, open the clock face, and manually turn back the hands with a finger. Someone else looks up from a newspaper. “I don’t think it works that way.” The first person sighs. The second… Read morePlay a Day: Turn Back Time
Stage right. A giant heap of items – miscellaneous things: papers, clothes, notepads, books, stuffed animals, picture frames. A woman enters stage left. One by one, she takes items out of the heap and moves them stage left, arranging them… Read morePlay a Day: That’s Better
someone sitting beside a large rock at the base of a hill smoking a cigarette
A bedroom. Stage left, a desk and chair. A large red neon sign blinks: “Art” Stage right, a bed. A large blue neon sign blinks: “Sleep” A woman stands center stage, looking from one side to the other. Sheepishly, she… Read morePlay a Day: Priorities
A giant fish tank, the like of which you would see in an aquarium. It is filled with small bits of paper with tasks written on them. It bears a label reading “Everything.” A smaller fish bowl, in which a single… Read morePlay a Day: Something > Nothing
A woman, center stage, sits at a desk and opens her laptop. A blinding flash of light emits from it. The woman shrieks, covers her eyes, and falls to the floor in the fetal position. Lights down. Act curtain closes…. Read morePlay a Day: Technical Difficulties; or, Screens
A woman sits by a fire, ripping the pages out of a journal and tossing them one by one into the flames, while basking in its glow.
An individual in coveralls and a straw hat sits on a bench, head in their hands. A watering can sits unattended beside them. Another individual wearing a flower costume enters stage left. The flower attempts to get the notice of… Read morePlay a Day: Flower or Gardener?