THE GOOD GIRL IS GONE

All hell breaks loose in the Bender household the day Mama runs off with that no-good Wayne Hargrove from the filling station. Papa can't believe she's gone, and Lulu just shrugs it off, while Ginny sees Mama everywhere she isn't. But absence makes the head go cloudy, and so Papa begins to see clues of a kidnapping in the farewell note Mama left behind, while Ginny follows Mama through a plate-glass window. Is it any wonder Lulu find herself strangely attracted to the exhausted, pill-popping medical intern treating her sister? But all that is merely prologue to the biggest test of Lulu's life: the day that Mama walks back into it.

Premiered at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, 2006.

A dark comedy that careens wildly from pathos to hilarity, The Good Girl Is Gone pokes at the bruised heart of the American family to examine the power of memory to torment and heal.

Running time: 90 minutes with no intermission. Two to three men, three women. Unit set.

DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION

An art student's obsession with Picasso takes her on a time-bending journey in search of self.

Winner of the 1993 ATHE Award for a student play, Driven to Abstraction was first produced at Bradford College in 1998 and again at Western Kentucky University in 2002, Scott Stroot directing.

A transformation play for 5 actors, Driven to Abstraction mimics the construction of a cubist painting --- as it shifts from the mundane world of an art student and her friends to the glittering Parisian life of Picasso, his lover Dora Maar and the sycophants and opportunists that make up their circle.

A comically twisted play about art and identity.

Running time: 50 minutes
For two women and five men
Unit set. Requires slide projector.

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