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"All Adults are liars. Before they tell Bedtime Stories to Children, they tell Stories to themselves first." A retelling, remix, and rememory of HANSEL & GRETEL. When HAN & GRET are abandoned in the Woods by their father, they discover what it means to truly Come Home.

"Everything great comes from Chicago. Even Fire". A Pastor deals with his grief after the lost of his church, and congregation, in the Great Chicago Fire. When a surviving member of the congregation confronts his lost of faith, another fire is lit, but this time, in the Pastor's heart.

JUDA, a ‘sensitive as hell’ cancerian, loves their on-again off-again (on-again off-again on-again off-ag…) significant sometimes ADESTE; an irresistible, but guarded scorpio, with all their heart. Problem: neither pair knows exactly what “love” is. However, their relationship dynamic radically shifts when Venus, planet of love, initiates a retrograde so chaotic, JUDA and ADESTE are finally confronted to reevaluate all their notions surrounding intimacy, pleasure, romance, and relating to the other.

"somewhere between the old world and the new. there’s always some old. the new is just a shiny old built on another less chrome old. therefore, we declare a new testament, a newer testament, a new new testament, in order to make sure our new, not your new, stay new; and the old stay old. this is not a remix, this is not a retelling. this is a continuation of what was Before in order to reveal what is the Now. the Now is our testimony and we are what we’ve always been. your Prophets."

a modern take on Eve and Eden setting out to live their new lives together outside of the Garden. However, they abruptly discover every garden has its snakes, every relationship its challenges, and every Testament its devils. a play in five verses.

In the wake of Bill Clinton's notorious "1994 Crime Bill", two black cellmates are incarcerated within a New York prison cell.
Desperate and dehumanized, the two use their limited tools - conversation, literature, board games, and prayer - in a constant effort to ward off insanity, violence, and self destruction. When an internal debate leaves one of them at critical risk, they both learn to place their faith in one another in lieu of a God.

In an alternative universe, Lady Macbeth meets the three Witches. This is that universe.

LADY MACBETH embraces her shadow, battles King Macbeth for the throne, and becomes Queen of the Damned. Hell hath no fury like a Queen redeemed.

Labor is a Flower waiting to bloom. A Job interview is a Garden waiting to be Watered. And APPLICANT is a seed waiting for an Orchard.

We have nothing to lose but our chains.

What is Freedom? In the bowels of a Solar SpaceShip, in the farthest future, two black crew mates debate the evolution of slavery and labor. They land somewhere between intimacy and another place, Higher Than the Sun.

Capitalism is Priceless. Until it isn't. VAN DER VELDE negotiates the price of their time, and their life, in ten minutes against an Omniscient Clock.

Everybody has a Devil, even the The Devil. When Lucille confronts her own personal Hell, she realizes while every Saint has a past, every Sinner, has a future.

Can real love ever die? Even when the Heart stops, does longing cease too? Or can it be resurrected? Can it be preserved? JAZ, a zombie, desperately tries to convince their very much alive paramour to join the Herd to be together in death.

The dream factory, a nebulous realm. part orphanage, part warehouse, part home. The place where all Nightmares are manufactured, even for the The Night Hoppers; employees of the Factory. When the nightmares of one such Night Hopper become too real, they must confront their Dreams to decipher their Reality.