Jeffrey Skinner

Two orphans, Mossy and Tangle, journey together to find what their only possession--The Golden Key--will open. Everyone knows it's the key to something more valuable than gold, though no one seems to know what, exactly. Along the way the two pilgrims meet an Airfish, a thousand year old Grandmother, a very forgetful Old Man of the Sea, a parade of shadows, a clock that marks time in two directions, and other strange beings and events that shape their journey. Adapted from a fairytale by Scottish writer George MacDonald, The Golden Key is a musical fairytale, very much for adults as well as children--it is about what every one of us, in our heart of hearts, most desires.

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Richard and Vera were divorced twenty years ago. Tonight they meet for the first time since parting for dinner. As they reconnect, it develops that—perhaps—Vera did not have the abortion that Richard thought took place justbefore they split up. Perhaps Richard has a son he never knew he had.Perhaps Vera did not arrange their Meeting for old times sake after all.
Perhaps Richard’s son is . . . African American . . . And perhaps the dinner will be less nostalgic than—well, dangerous and bizarre. A dramatic, surreal meditation on race, power, and class in contemporary America.

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Jonathan, a man in a slept-in suit and tie, says hello to the audience, and then admits he has just come from killing a man. In a comic, horrifying, speedy and philosophical monologue, we learn just how he has come to this evening, and to these moments, which turn out to be the last of his life.

Synopsis:
Two twenty-plus-year veteran soldiers return home after their convoy is hit by an IED in Iraq. Torn between family and the call of duty, their wars continue at home, opening old wounds of betrayal, fear, infidelity, and loneliness for them and their wives. In this touching, poetic, brutal and romantic commentary on current events, the soldiers and their fractured families are forced into a surprising and bitter realism. And, only one thing is certain—the high cost paid by all.