Frostbite by Lisa D'Amour
Inspired by the Noh play Sotoba Komachi |
 
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Drama
Short, 25-35 minutes
4 females, 3 males, 4 either
(7-15 actors possible: 4-8 females, 3-7 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
On a chilly night in Duluth, Minnesota, with nothing much to do, Sheila, Kira, and Matt head to a clearing in the woods in search of any kind of excitement. In place of partygoers they find a scrawny, shivering kid who claims to be more than 100 years old. As The Kid enacts his epic story, each teen must face his or her own hopes and fears about identity, adventure, and great love.
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Comedic Drama
Full-length, 110-120 minutes
15 females, 9 males (18-24 actors possible: 12-15 females, 6-9 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
After graduating from high school, class salutatorian Dani is slated to study photography at NYU in the fall and has a summer job working the third shift at a small-town chemical factory. And while her friends are readying for college with road trips and Facebook updates, Dani struggles with her new job, a new relationship, and a serious illness in her family. When Dani starts wondering if she should put off school to figure out what she wants to do with her life, only her eccentric support group of friends and family can persuade her to pursue her dreams.
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Drama
Short, 24-30 minutes
7 females, 3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Ten young Norwegian immigrants are stranded in the middle of the Dakota prairie during the long winter of 1880-81. Hunger, cold, and cabin fever fuel deep tensions that threaten the survival of their isolated community. With supplies running low and spring more than two months away, the teenaged settlers consider their dire circumstances. Who is at fault? Who can be trusted? And who, if anyone, will be forced to take the perilous journey to town, 100 miles away?
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Drama
Short, 30-40 minutes
6 females, 3 males, 3 either (9-15 actors possible: 6-9 females, 3-6 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
When their dad dies, city kids Trina and Abby are suddenly transplanted to a farm town that's being swallowed by the suburbs. Trina, an outcast in her old school, suddenly finds herself the center of attention in this new environment. Abby, the younger of the sisters, who has always made friends easily, teeters on the brink of being ostracized for her budding relationship with an aspiring bull rider. As both girls learn the rules of their new school, they quickly discover that both integrity and acceptance carry a cruel price.
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Drama
Full-length, 65-75 minutes
7 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Young people want to connect with one another in every era, but in the wake of tragedies like 9/11, that impulse is especially strong. Taking place in 1963 and 2001, this powerful drama shows how youth deal with the aftermath of terror: from making chocolate truffles, to painting murals, to exploring other religions. Their solutions may seem naive, but their hope makes everything possible.
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Main Street adapted by Craig Wright
from the novel by Sinclair Lewis |
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Drama
Full-length, 105-120 minutes
2 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In this emotionally-charged adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' groundbreaking novel, young and idealistic Carol Milford marries Doc Will Kennicott and moves to his small Minnesota hometown. As would-be civic reformer Carol struggles to find her place amidst the claustrophobic and parochial town of Gopher Prairie, she is gradually forced to face the consequences of her life choices. An American classic brought to vivid life for a whole new generation of theatergoers.
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| "It is amazing that a work written about Minnesota nearly 100 years ago could continue to be so cleverly exacting today...so skillfully executed it brings the entire house to fits of laughter." |
| --Michelle Horton, The Minnesota Daily |
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Comedy
Short, 45-55 minutes
2 females, 3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
It's Christmas Eve in America's heartland, and radio host Bjorn Gundlarrsen is preparing for the telethon performance that will keep his tiny polka station afloat. Unfortunately, the prize troupe of British actors he's hired has all fallen ill due to a dastardly combination of indigestible foreign meats. With time running out, will Bjorn be able to replace them in time and save the show? After all, it's not like Christmas is known for miracles...
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 30-35 minutes
6 females, 4 males, 3 either (13-20 actors possible: 6-16 females, 4-14 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A soldier named Luke returns home from battle to discover that no one in Goodland is allowed to speak. Fascist Hounds, wily ghosts, and limping, love-struck mayors chase Luke, his high school sweetheart, and some rebellious Gabbers through the forests of the Minnesota Iron Range -- making love and war with words. Home of the Brave is about the fight for freedom where you least expect it.
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Family drama
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
4 females, 5 males, 10 either
(15-30 actors possible: 4-15 females, 5-15 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Toby McGarvey returns from his first semester as a freshman at New York University, home for the holidays to the small town of Hopely, Minnesota. He expects to find Hopely preserved as he left it, but now in awe of him. A rude awakening: His girlfriend has dumped him for his brother, and his dad has published in the town paper the letters he wrote home, exaggerating his adventures in the big city and sneering about his hometown to cover up his profound homesickness. Toby is in for a discomfiting but humorous journey toward rediscovering his home. Can he rise above his boiling anger as he watches his brother's demonstrative affection toward his old girlfriend? Is he falling in love with his eccentric old grade school teacher? Can the secret life of Christmas be just as good as or even better than the sentimental Christmas everybody's supposed to want?
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Comedy
Full-length, 60-70 minutes
3 females, 6 males (8-9 actors possible: exactly 3 females, 5-6 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Marcello, a gay art-school drop-out, enjoys a cornucopia of modern anxieties and humiliations, along with (and because of) his friends and love interests. Part parody of and part homage to Fellini's La Dolce Vita, featuring very weird cabaret acts: The Unambitious Drag Queen! The Drunk Russian Slag Jugglers! And your host, Scary Clown Archetype Guy!
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| "Loosely basing his madcap comedy on Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, local director and playwright Matthew Foster mixes a lethal dose of desperate drama and over-the-top humor. The tight, witty script follows a gay twentysomething, Marcello, as he drowns in the meaninglessness of our polluted society... You may not find enlightenment, but you're gonna love those screwed-up slag jugglers." |
| --Jeremy Swanson, City Pages (Minneapolis) |
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Drama
Short, 8-10 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $18.95 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Naked Angels Issues Projects: Collected Plays.
In Minnesota, two teenagers, John and Natasha, have just seen the movie The Deer Hunter. Despite the looming issues of family, military school, and money, the two find a connection listening to Springsteen in this tale of youth, innocence, and love.
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