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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 110-120 minutes
4 females, 5 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Barry Ricewater is dying of cancer. He also claims to be the Messiah. His older, hippie wife and his recovering drug-addict brother believe him, but the rest of the family harbors doubts. Barry's sister and father are preoccupied dodging jail sentences for fraud, and their lawyer is ready to send them to the big house. When an aspiring rapper and his seemingly psychic wife show up looking for the Amerissiah, the family is forced to confront their sins and seek redemption -- but are they worshipping a false idol?
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| "Truly thought provoking and frequently hilarious." |
| --The Village Voice |
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Drama
Full-length, 75-80 minutes
3 females, 1 male
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Jackie and Contessa are far from the typical American family. One black, one Jewish, and both women, they have overcome their differences and stayed partners for twenty years. But when their absent daughter Garance is accused of murder and cannibalism, their New York City apartment becomes a center of chaos. The phone rings off the hook with bigoted threats, Contessa's long-lost brother pays a visit, and to top it all off, the alleged cannibal returns. This examination of a dysfunctional and unconventional family bitingly explores the outermost limits of familial love.
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| "Ahonen most craftily eases us into the story until the outrageous seems normal and we settle down to a gentle pace that beguiles and surprises at every turn. Good theater like this points a finger at itself while triply engaging the viewer. Bring Us The Head Of Your Daughter reaffirms Mr. Ahonen's gift for original playmaking." |
| --United Stages |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 115-125 minutes
4 females, 7 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Paulie "The Pug" is a Coney Island dreamer...just one MMA fight away from the big time. If only he could keep his wife from bedding her ex-husband, his brother-in-law from going to the slammer, and his best friend from taking a bite out of his neck, he'd be on top of the world. A raucous, irreverent, action-packed comedy full of weak wrists and strong hearts, Happy in the Poorhouse is an unsanitized story of love, sex, and chasing after dreams even when you've got a black eye and a broken spirit.
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| "...has a knockabout physicality that grabs your attention. But what holds it is the working-class poetry of Derek Ahonen's script. Mr. Ahonen brings the populist instincts of a born entertainer. He might be a contender yet." |
| --The New York Times |
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Drama/Comedy
Full-length, 155-165 minutes
2 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
An extraordinary gathering of young idealists lives above a vegan restaurant in NYC. Billy, Dawn, Dear and Wyatt are an extended sexual family battling their fears and addictions in order to live their utopian dream. The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side is a celebration of love and the search for human grandness -- and what happens when bohemian paradise begins to crumble.
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| "Brings to mind the vitality that distinguished the early Off-Off Broadway work of artists like Sam Shepard only a generation ago." |
| --The New Yorker |
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Drama/Comedy
Full-length, 120-125 minutes
1 female, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Mabel Sternos has been murdered, and her husband, Sheep-Suit, is out for revenge. Can her sons sober up in time to thwart the old man's plot? Will her poor daughter-in-law Jo Jo have the strength to hold them together? And who is the man they call Forrest? The Sternos family struggles for salvation from themselves in this darkly humorous exploration of familial dysfunction.
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| "There's no denying Ahonen is forging a unique voice." |
| --The New York Post |
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