Susan Jeremy accidentally became a teacher after being fired from almost every survival job. This poignant and laugh-out-loud memoir chronicles the absurdity of the situations. Jeremy seamlessly transforms into all characters so that you can relive the humiliation with her.
Elegy has always seen things others can’t: the red strings of people’s destinies. She got used to the lonely life of a seer, convinced she knew everything about what the future held.
In the not-too-distant future, humanity is no more. Nuclear war has devastated planet earth leaving the surface a pile of ash and radiation. All that remains is Earth’s last gay friend group in an underground bunker.
5,218 people are living there, and this is the story of the men who caused all the trouble…
Sixteen weeks, four continents, three bungee jumps, and I couldn’t come home soon enough. This is the story of how a Boston homebody turned a solo trip around the globe into a comedy novel and a one-man play.
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True story. New York, 1944. Ted Hall, 19, the youngest Physicist in Oppenheimer’s Atomic Bomb Project, asks himself the giant question: will the world be safer after the War if he gives atomic secrets to the Russians? And he does. From teenage friendship to stark treason. From the idyll of young love to the murky world of spies. From big decision to deep consequence. And from high science to Hiroshima.
Outrage! It’s everywhere in society today. But can it be turned to comedic gold? Join us as we brandish our rapier-sharp wits to skewer targets left, right, and centre. Keen social commentary! Dazzling repartee! And a few revamped Gilbert and Sullivan songs thrown in for good measure.
We have several sketches and a small one-act play, written by local teens from the Cornwall region (SDG and Akwesasne) and from Ottawa.
★ This show was selected for an additional « Best of Fest » performance on Sunday, June 23 at 7:30PM. For tickets to this showing, click here.
Never was there a tale of more whoa
than that of fast cars, found family and fierce foes.
★ This show was selected for an additional « Best of Fest » performance on Sunday, June 23 at 7:00PM. For tickets to this showing, click here.
THE WHITE CROCODILE: Three short plays by Laurie Fyffe. From the incoming tide of conspiracy thinking, to the raging power of ancient geological formations, to the waves of humanity seeking sanctuary, lives intersect and worlds collide in three short tales: « Dammed », « I Am Oil » and « The White Crocodile ».
