Peppur Chambers

Harle want's a baby, bad. But the ancestors ain't havin' it. Unexplained Infertility is a (ghost) story about family, love and choices made.

Watching from afar, boyfriend Mike watches his girlfriend Meridian take self-care to another level. Wanting to have all the successes she has been denied, she takes one last-ditch effort to make it. She creates an all-black cabaret of beautiful dancers to tell a story of loving yourself. However, her dancing demons become larger than life and the lines between real life and fantasy become blurred. This time, the success has gone to her head and Mike may be too late to help.

Watching the world go by from her balcony, self-appointed “detective” Aimee-Lynn is a curious observer of the goings-on in her local NoHo neighborhood. But when a suspicious incident occurs on the street below, Aimee-Lynn’s worldview is changed forever in this dramedy about the duality that exists right before our eyes — if we can see it.

As the Great Depression rolls on, Fernando and Difford, two ambitious young men, take government relief jobs maintaining the city’s large urban wilderness, but on the fateful date of October 3, 1933 something goes terribly wrong… How do we follow our dreams when the natural order has been disrupted?

Jazz club owner RAYE (mid 50s) "immaturely" deals with her fear of loss during the time of COVID-19 while pushing away her steadfast rock, fiancé and musician MARTIN (mid 30s) …on their one-year anniversary.

Note: For the Love of You is inspired by a discarded hand-written set list, dated April 26, 2019, found on a North Hollywood, CA sidewalk in May 2020.

Commissioned by Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles

House Rules, written by Peppur Chambers, is a play about Love, Respect & Billie Holiday.
***What happens here, stays here. What happens out there, stays out there.***
It's 1944. Billie Holiday is at the height of her career, the world is at war and she wanders into a rinky-dink bar in a rinky-dink town on a day that changes several lives, and maybe hers too, forever...thanks to a set of bizarre house rules. Joe, a man tired of running from his own past, has thoughtfully created some House Rules for his bar to shelter himself and folks like his best friend, Boogey Man, so named because he finds that women hold their purses tighter when he's near. Joe's House Rules provide temporary relief from society's stereotypes and injustices that easily warp a person's identity....or so he hoped. The house rules have been effective, prosperous even, until Patience, a scorned woman who has had enough, enters the bar. She carries out her revenge at Joe’s where she is humbly known by all in town as the Reverend’s devoted wife. In an attempt to strategically win Patience’s unrequited love, Earnest, a deacon in the church and a regular at Joe’s, breaks the rules and selfishly divulges to Patience that the Reverend visits Joe’s for daily doses of Ruby, a real gem of a waitress…with benefits. His plan backfires when Patience, thoroughly humiliated and now feeling like the town fool and a foolish wife, shows up at Joe’s wanting more than answers.
***Who you are out there, nobody cares in here.***
The infamous day Patience declares war on her Reverend husband is the very day the famous Billie Holiday finds herself at Joe’s looking for a little somethin’ to carry her over. Sticking to the rules, the occupants at Joe’s treat her just the same as they would anybody else. Billie strives to find solace in her temporary confinement by momentarily existing as her true self, rather than her celebrity persona.
***Respect one another.***
With the sole purpose of gaining lost respect, Patience carefully unravels the House Rules, uses them as a slippery noose … and gets away with murder. ***House Rules is an ambitious tribute to William Inge’s Bus Stop and takes place entirely in one room; it attempts to take a look at Billie Holiday’s persona without the Gardenia and asks “What If?”…What if Billie Holiday dropped into Joe’s on a day when something explosive happened? Could this event have changed her life? Overall, House Rules takes a peek at the intricacies of a set of unspoken rules abused by a woman who lived her entire life by the rules.

Dick is an un-funny comedian. Jayne’s a pregnant, self-proclaimed f*ck-up.

Together, Dick & Jayne Get A Life in this quirky, sorta romantic sorta comedy. Dick is a comedian who is so unfunny, it is painful. On advice from his manager, he decides he must have a girlfriend in order to be funny and to save his career. Enter Jayne, who runs smack dab into Dick one late night at the grocery store when she’s trying to buy a pregnancy test. Jayne finds out she is knocked up by her asshole (ex) boyfriend Alex who doesn’t love her. High on hormones and pistachio ice cream, Jayne tries to figure out how to take responsibility for her actions while Dick tries to rein her in. Somehow, together, Dick and Jayne Get A Life.

***Author’s Note:***
This play is about people and the raw pain they (we) often try to cover up. Dick & Jayne fail to cover up and it makes them more human. This play tells different stories when played by different ethnicities, thanks to our stereotypes in life. Please experiment with this. This play has an absurdness to it. Be absurd, use few props. Be real. Be honest. Have fun.