When a young man returns to help his father sort through his recently deceased grandfather’s belongings, family secrets come back to haunt the men. The discovery of a worn photo of a picture bride drudges up memories that refuse to be erased. The spirit of the woman in the photo forces herself onto the young man’s consciousness in a desperate attempt to be remembered before the last trace of her life on earth is swept away. She forces the young man to relive the story of her arrival to Hawai’i, and her subsequent murder in the sugarcane fields. As the young man unearths the truth about his grandfather’s past, he is haunted by his own guilt, and made to confront his father about his abusive tendencies. The family’s history of violence eventually comes to rest on the young man’s shoulders and he is forced to confront demons all his own. Utilizing the structure and conventions of traditional Noh theatre, the play blurs the line between memory, reality, and fantasy to examine the hereditary nature of abuse and destruction.

• Cast Size: 5M, 1F, 4+ Either
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Matriarch Fumi Sasaki develops Alzheimer’s in 1998, her daughters have a handful: Dakota tries to kidnap her, Nori gets a shrink, Emi flees to Africa. Their father Tak, once a successful actor, gets temporarily lost on a train to Maine. After Fumi dies, secrets emerge from the shrink, Minister and family ghost. Flashbacks show the parents romance, and the roots of Fumi’s mental stresses, started at a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in WWII, when both were wed to others. Nevertheless, at her memorial, the family celebrates Fumi as the ‘rock’ who enabled their transition into east coast society.

• Cast Size: 3M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“Ol Woman Naoia- tri blong hanred plis” (Women of Today-  three shells of kava please) chronicles one day in the life of three women who work at the same non-profit in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu (South Pacific). Leipakoa suffers domestic violence. Ana wins a scholarship to study abroad. Dawn is the expat volunteer who feels out of place. There is a chorus of women. The play is in English, Bislama and French and was created in 2010 by a diverse group of women in Port Vila in collaboration with VANGO, the University of the South Pacific and UNIFEM.

• Flexible Casting – Centers Black Female Characters
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

“TYPEEPEE: A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS is an absurd and heartwarming exploration of love, identity, and the wonderfully messy parts of being human. At the center of it all is Bing Yongle, a former campus lothario whose glory days are behind him after a moped accident leaves him struggling with impotence. Bing now finds himself stuck between his overly clingy girlfriend, Kim, a robotics major determined to build an animatronic Herman Melville, and his hapless friends, Toby and Tommy, who desperately need his help to woo two women from the conservative Wolfowitz House dorm. What follows is a riotous mix of romantic misadventures, misguided schemes, and laugh-out-loud absurdity, as Toby and Tommy stumble through awkward conversations and failed attempts to impress Mary and Karky. Bing, meanwhile, has his own battles to fight—not just with his newfound sense of inadequacy, but also with Sister Philippa Soggybox, the unpredictable and flirtatious nun who oversees the dorm. Set against the backdrop of a gaudy Hawaiian-themed lounge the play dances between farce and sincere reflection.”

• Cast Size: 7M, 6F, 2+ Either
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance