A HISTORY. Short. Physically and poetically based. "A brief and partial history of the judicial world as it is known to some of us." 10 mins. 1 female/1 male or 2 females.
AMERICAN ROSE. Full-length. An ensemble cast portrays the changing lives of American women who enter war production workplaces and wartime situations during the 1940s. Their stories are juxtaposed with additional roles iconic of U.S. female individuals from the WWII period. 75 minutes. Large female ensemble, multi-ethnic, diverse cast.
AN EDUCATION. Short. A magician-mime-teacher-scientist character provides a brief history of human weaponry. 10 minutes. 1 actor of any description.
AN OCEAN OF BEES. Full-length. A hilarious and poignant future of post-environmental collapse wherein four souls try to grasp what traits we humans need, and which we need to jettison, for survival. 80 mins. 2 female/2 male or one of each non-binary, 50%+ BIPOC, diverse cast.
AT DAWN WITH THE RAIN AND THE STARS. Full-length. Four female actors create lyrical roles in a story of intellectuals, artists and ordinary women. The play begins with the fictionalized portrayals of four true-to-life individuals from the 1930's. These four characters evolve into a fact-based group of four Partisan women arrested on the eve of the Paris deportations. Then the four actors step outside the characters they have created in order to explore why such stories remain relevant. 90 minutes. 4 female, age-range diverse.
EVERY CONCENTRATED FRAGMENT. One-act. A lyrical exploration of the friendship bonds and the life-outcomes of four factually-based French women Partisans (Charlotte Delbo and her colleagues of Convoy 31000) from Nazi-era Europe as they confront the meaning of their arrests on the eve of the Paris deportations during WWII. 4 females (any), age-range diverse. 45 minutes.
IN THE BEGINNING... Short. Rom-com set in the Garden of Eden... redux. 10 minutes. 1 female, 1 male, race neutral or any.
LETTERS TO JEFF BEZOS. Short. A letter writer addresses her thoughts on life to Jeff Bezos. 10 minutes. Zoom-friendly. 1 female, female-identified, or non-binary actor (of any race/ethnicity).
LITTLE KINGS. One-act. Five family members exist as present-day fractured-fairy-tale-versions of characters from King Lear, via an originally conceived satire that sends-up 400 years of human civilization and family history. A hilarious and thought-provoking tour de force. 60 minutes. 2 female or female-identified, 2 male or male-identified, 1 of either or non-binary, all race-neutral or any.
MY MEDEA. Full-length. A vibrant, accessible, and relevant re-telling of Medea, imbued with current events cut from the American landscape. 75 minutes. Large ensemble, both males and females, multi-ethnic, diverse cast.
WE ARE ALL DICK 3. One-act. Love/story mash-up by way of re-imagined Richard the Third romantic subplots with machinations spun from news and entertainment factories, including the incidents of 9/11. A stand-alone compressed-comedy-drama of relationships. 50-minute one-act play. 1 female, 1 male, race-neutral or any.
The above texts are available from <susan.hansell@gmail.com> and through the New Play Exchange National New Play Network.
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