Melissa Milich

So much happens just before dark. This play is set in my hometown, but the little tales told are a universal experience.

I always suspected that Shakespeare's Ophelia and Cordelia were separated at birth. At the very least, I thought they should be in the same play. Think Romy and MIchele sell Girl Scout cookies.

A woman reflects on an Easter Sunday from sixty years ago.

The ten minute audio version by Open-Door Playhouse can be accessed for free here: https://www.opendoorplayhouse.org/opendoortheaterplays/bridalwave

Synopsis: While the Beatles sang love songs on American television, the Pentagon drafted 38,000 young men a month to keep up with the expanding war in Vietnam and the fight against communism. To fill those boots, on August 26, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (also known as LBJ) signed Executive Order 11241, effective one second after midnight to end the draft deferment for married men. With the clock ticking on what was left of that day, many young couples rushed to the altar before the midnight deadline to avoid the war. They called it "The Bridal Wave."

After a tough day at work, a tired commuter just trying to get home on a city bus gets kidnapped by space aliens.

On August 26, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed Executive Order 11241, effective one second after midnight to end the draft deferment for marriedmen. With the clock ticking on what was left of that day,
many young couples rushed to the altar before the midnight deadline to avoid the war. They called it "The Bridal Wave."

An overzealous Bigfoot enthusiast who wants to bring home evidence that the monster actually exists, gets taken prisoner by a group of wary mountain folk who live in harmony with the hairy ape-like creature but fear for their illegal moonshine operation.

Jenny and Lucy are selling cookies door to door when they go to the wrong house and encounter a cannibal with an appetite for more than just Thin Mints and Do-Si-Does.
OvEn will be produced by Open Door Playhouse, a theatrical podcast on November 1 as part of a Halloween broadcast.

Sojourner Truth recounts her walk to freedom and her walk into a courtroom to get her son back after he was sold to a slave owner out of state. Selected for publication in the Venus Theatre inaugural anthology entitled, "Frozen Women/Flowing Thoughts."

This is a non-Shakespeare version of my previous play, OvEn, in which two girls get into big trouble selling cookies door-to-door when they encounter a cannibal and have to use their wits to escape. It is a feminist recast of Hansel and Gretel. Think Romy and Michele sell Girl Scout cookies.

When a mysterious and gruesome box containing a former neighbor is delivered to their front lawn, a greedy couple make quick plans to cash in on an inheritance that supposedly comes with the corpse. (COMEDY)

In 1969, on the night before he deploys to Vietnam for combat duty, a young soldier proposes marriage to his longtime sweetheart who is angry he waited to the last minute to tell her he was leaving.

An aimless young woman becomes victim to a mysterious intruder dubbed THE MIDNIGHT MARAUDER which suddenly gives her new purpose in life.

Jerry is about to propose to his longtime girlfriend, BUT, is that the woman he truly wants to marry?

While deployed overseas, a former college English major turned misfit soldier is assigned to teach a foreign general about American literature even as his country teeters on the brink of war.

Everyone experiences war differently.

NOTE: This is my first play written as an adult. I actually think I wrote better plays when I was a kid. At any rate, it reads kind of rough. Working on revising it. Any suggestions will be appreciated.)

I always suspected that Shakespeare's Ophelia and Cordelia were separated at birth. At the very least, I thought they should be in the same play. Think Romy and Michele sell Girl Scout Cookies.