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25 Questions for a Jewish Mother
Kate Moira Ryan and 1 other
Part memoir and part stand-up routine, this hilarious and affecting play breaks down just what makes Jewish mothers so lamentable, laughable, and lovable. Comedienne Judy Gold and playwright Kate Moira Ryan seamlessly weave actual interviews with Jewish mothers across the United States together with memories from Gold's childhood and her own experiences as a Jewish mother in order to create a performance piece that explores it all: from rugelach to rabbis, matzoh to marriage, Ann Landers to Anne Frank, and guilt to G-D.
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Memoir/Comedy
60 - 70 minutes
4 W,  (1-21 actors possible: 1-21 W, )
Rhythm and Rhyme
Lily Dwoskin
In this lyrical, poignant twist on the creation story, God has put the formation of the universe in the hands of Mother Nature. Complete with plants, water, animals, and even humans, Mother Nature (with some help from Father Time), creates a remarkable planet Earth. As she and Father Time observe periods of human life on Earth, conditions on the planet slowly deteriorate. Mother Earth begins to worry -- will Earth and its inhabitants be able to endure change and destruction they brought upon themselves?
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Drama/Comedy
35 - 45 minutes
3 W, 5 M, 7 Any (15-30 actors possible: 1-15 W, 2-15 M)
Anna Bella Eema
Lisa D'Amour
Ten-year-old Anna Bella and her hermetic mother Irene live in a ratty trailer on the edge of town. When their trailer park is slated for demolition because of interstate highway expansion, Irene refuses to leave. In this moment of crisis, Anna Bella creates a new girl out of the mud behind their trailer home. This mud-girl helps Anna Bella and Irene channel the supernatural and face the life they must live in the world outside their trailer home. A richly imagined tale of a fierce mother/daughter bond, spoken and sung by three women.
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Dramatic comedy with music
75 - 90 minutes
3 W,  (3-6 actors possible: 3-6 W, )
Mom and the Razor Blades
Wendy Hammond
Mom wants to celebrate her birthday with the whole family, but Dad won't come out of his office and her 37 children keep killing themselves or running away. The only daughter who is even bothering to stick around is Faith, who comes home with books on psychoanalysis, trying to cure Mom before all the children are dead and gone. A hilarious family comedy.
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Black Comedy
15 - 25 minutes
3 W,  (3 actors possible: 0-3 W, 0-3 M)
Not Medea
Allison Gregory
An exhausted working mother escapes for just one night to the sanctuary of the theatre - except the play is one she desperately doesn't want to watch. As the show goes on, she finds herself drawn from her reality into Medea's, even as she draws the audience into her own raw and surprising personal history. Myth and magic meet searing truths about parenting, love, and desire in this story that begins as Medea - and ends as something else entirely.
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Drama
75 - 80 minutes
2 W, 1 M,