Indoor Cats by Mora V. Harris

Recently dumped filmmaker Jules, is holed up with her cat at her parents cabin in Central Pennsylvania, watching her career dreams dry up in the face of the pandemic and screening her infuriatingly competent sister’s calls. When she flirtatiously encounters her Naturalist neighbor Pete, she begins a foray into the bizarre world of making films for feline viewing. Faced with uncertainty both personal and global...
Recently dumped filmmaker Jules, is holed up with her cat at her parents cabin in Central Pennsylvania, watching her career dreams dry up in the face of the pandemic and screening her infuriatingly competent sister’s calls. When she flirtatiously encounters her Naturalist neighbor Pete, she begins a foray into the bizarre world of making films for feline viewing. Faced with uncertainty both personal and global, Jules must use instinct to decide who gives her art, and life, meaning, even when it’s feeling more and more like the end of the world.
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  • Toby Malone:
    21 Feb. 2023
    “ I had the very great privilege of seeing Indoor Cats develop over the period of a year, and from draft to draft, was delighted with the care and love Mora Harris put into the world of Panda the Cat and Jules, Panda's human. I love the setting, and the depth of relationship between all of these characters. This isn't a play where Panda is the main attraction, but is so much more intricate than that. Please read this play and produce it often: it's a complete delight. ”
  • Scott Carter Cooper:
    20 Feb. 2023
    “ I saw the Chicago production. Harris has created the kind of play I wish I'd written. Smart and funny. It's the kind of material that makes competent actors give good performances, and brilliant actors inspired ones. One of my favorite pieces of the past year. ”
  • Pittsburgh Public Theater:
    10 Jan. 2023
    “ Featured in our PlayTime Live reading series in 2022! Mora's plays are delightfully and deliciously human and, when it comes to this quirky comedy, especially when they feature an anthropomorphized cat named Panda. It's impossible not to relate to the charming neuroses of filmmaker Jules, her very pregnant sister Willa, and their dreamy neighbor Pete as they navigate fraught relationships and artistic fulfillment amid the dawn of the pandemic. INDOOR CATS will warm your heart as it busts your gut. ”
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JULES: Mid-20s, she/her/hers, multi-media stop motion video artist with a prickly exterior and marshmallowy center. Don’t call her cute.

PANDA: Like 5 in human years, gender irrelevant, a black and white cat. Very cute, but this is also irrelevant.

WILLA: Early 30s, she/her/hers, Jules’ older sister, 6 months pregnant at the start of the play, a teacher ready for summer vacation, genuinely doing her best all the damn time and it’s exhausting.

PETE: Late 30s, he/him/his, nature photographer/videographer, community college instructor, and Philly-accented free-spirit.

Development History

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    2022

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