Nicholas Thurkettle

Garland and Perla are a brother and sister whose lifelong sibling rivalry has kept them from speaking to each other for years. They are reunited when a lawyer contacts them with a mysterious message from their missing father, a brilliant but eccentric scientist who may have made a discovery that has literally Earth-shattering consequences. What will you do to reunite when the whole human race might be out of time?

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The crew of a spaceship exploring the cosmos lands on an alien planet and finds only a friendly and befuddled old eccentric who wants to offer them soup, and whose kindness has a suspiciously uncanny way of teasing out their buried emotional issues while they're supposed to be saving the galaxy.

A man finds himself unable to explain why he kicked a hole in a painting valued at $30 Million. In a surprising, often funny, war of words, first with the museum's director, then with the exhibit's curator, sacred assumptions about the price of art, the definition of artistic impulse, and the goal of any artist end up called into question.

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Adapted from the short story by Ambrose Bierce - if a ghost is a spirit without a body, a lich is a body without a spirit, pitiless and animated by hate. A surreal nightmare in a dark forest, and one of the first appearances of what could be called a zombie in Western literature. Written to work either on a conventional stage or for environmental theater.

Even the most innocent girl can be tempted when her best friend is a BAD INFLUENCE. On a night full of drugged drinks, duct tape, and a singing derelict who thinks people are robots - will Jessica make the right choices?

A woman is dumped by her boyfriend, and her best female friend takes on the sacred duty of lifting her spirits with a night of absolutely stupid drinking. Into the wee hours, they find themselves at a tattoo parlor, where the friend realizes she might have to make a very tender sacrifice to stop the dumpee from doing something truly dumb.

Four strangers sit at a diner counter. Each has their own story, just like each has their own order for the waitress. But if you listen, you can sometimes hear harmonies.

A young boxer is all fired up for the big fight, until a disloyal cornerman convinces him that his real opponent is the wretched and empty uncertainty of human existence. But it could just be a ploy to get the Kid to take a dive.

Two temperamental noblemen struggle to prove themselves the more honorable to the same woman, with increasingly absurd and self-destructive results.

Three mad sick bros at the gym believe that the right combination of sets might allow them to glimpse the beauty of the Almighty. All roles can be played by men or gender-bending women.

A young couple on their first Christmas in the same apartment finds increasingly resourceful ways to scrounge up enough money for a tasty dinner.

A socially-anxious librarian, on a cross-country train ride to eulogize a beloved former teacher, tries to puzzle out what to say by recalling and analyzing famous speeches he admires (from General George Washington, farmer Max Yasgur from Woodstock, and Shakespeare's King Henry), while he struggles to connect with employees and passengers on the train as his grief threatens to overwhelm his rational nature.

Using the characters of the Watch, this play is designed to serve as a prologue to a production of "Much Ado About Nothing". Using modern language and all-ages slapstick, it introduces concepts of Shakespearean wordplay and provides a synopsis of the major characters and storylines of "Much Ado" for audiences new to Shakespeare.

This short play is written to serve as an introduction to Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" for audiences unfamiliar with Shakespeare. Using the often-cut Christopher Sly prologue from the play with more modern language, it introduces Shakespearean conventions of mistaken identity and cross-dressing, and summarizes the major plotline of "Shrew" before seamlessly segueing into the opening scenes.