DREAM HOUSE

60-90 MINUTE PLAY

TAG LINE:
"Dream Home or Nightmare? How Far Would You Go to Reclaim Your Future?"

Reading, Playwright's Roundtable, Kansas City Public Theatre 2025
Full Production: Bicycle Face Productions, September 2025

SYNOPSIS:
After years of saving and planning, a young couple purchases their dream home. With a plan to use RENTRHOME to pay off the mortgage before they move in, their dreams quickly turn...

60-90 MINUTE PLAY

TAG LINE:
"Dream Home or Nightmare? How Far Would You Go to Reclaim Your Future?"

Reading, Playwright's Roundtable, Kansas City Public Theatre 2025
Full Production: Bicycle Face Productions, September 2025

SYNOPSIS:
After years of saving and planning, a young couple purchases their dream home. With a plan to use RENTRHOME to pay off the mortgage before they move in, their dreams quickly turn to a nightmare when they discover that a former guest, now squatter, has taken up residence in their perfect home. What are people willing to do to protect their dreams?

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  • Jarred Corona: DREAM HOUSE

    "How capable am I of great evil?" you might ask after catching this darkly amusing play. What would it take? Someone killing your dream? The cruelties of the market? The promise of money? How about the guarantee the people you harm are confined to a screen? They can't feel, after all. Monsters lose their humanity one way or another, so it's fine to enact your violences... right? We can all snap. We can all kill. And we'll do it while calling ourselves good. Isn't that delightfully horrifying?

    "How capable am I of great evil?" you might ask after catching this darkly amusing play. What would it take? Someone killing your dream? The cruelties of the market? The promise of money? How about the guarantee the people you harm are confined to a screen? They can't feel, after all. Monsters lose their humanity one way or another, so it's fine to enact your violences... right? We can all snap. We can all kill. And we'll do it while calling ourselves good. Isn't that delightfully horrifying?

  • David (davidbdale) Hodges: DREAM HOUSE

    When DIYers David and Chloe dive headfirst into a house-rental program without sound legal advice, they invite greedy malevolence into their perfect dream world. Everything that follows is the nightmarishly logical consequence of their big miscalculation. But David's Choice, capitalized, at the halfway point, will have even bigger consequences for a marriage that was based on openness and sharing. This is one doomed couple.

    When DIYers David and Chloe dive headfirst into a house-rental program without sound legal advice, they invite greedy malevolence into their perfect dream world. Everything that follows is the nightmarishly logical consequence of their big miscalculation. But David's Choice, capitalized, at the halfway point, will have even bigger consequences for a marriage that was based on openness and sharing. This is one doomed couple.

  • Nora Louise Syran: DREAM HOUSE

    Having experienced a similar scenario first hand (though thankfully not the same resolution!) I totally appreciated Cole's escalation of the events in this tightly drawn drama. Brava, playwright!

    Having experienced a similar scenario first hand (though thankfully not the same resolution!) I totally appreciated Cole's escalation of the events in this tightly drawn drama. Brava, playwright!

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CHLOE: female, late 20s – early 30s, cautious but creative
DAVID:male, late 20s – early 30s, confident and excitable
AMBER: female, 30s-40s, Midwesterner cool, friendly and relaxed
ROSE: female, 30s-40s, Midwesterner cool, friendly and relaxed
CHARLIE: male, preteen, pure tween angst, video gamer
ROB: male, 40s-50s, quiet, polite and pleasant at first, nightmare later
OFFICER: any age, any gender, calm and straightforward