Tag: theatre
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The Fencers

FULL-LENGTH PLAY. Maddie is broke and unemployed, with a chronically ill kid who needs surgery. She has one thing going for her: she’s an extraordinary fencer, and she just turned 50, so she can try out for the Veterans’ World Championships. When Maddie makes the controversial decision to give custody of her son to his…
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The Incels

FULL-LENGTH PLAY. Nominated for the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Tom and Derrick are “incels:” lonely, angry, desperate, “involuntarily celibate” men stuck in Internet echo chambers and creeping towards the edge of violence. They stumble upon a self-help channel, “Voice of Hope,” where Pat, a MGTOW (“man going his own way”), teaches men how to…
