Brigitte Viellieu-Davis

With a magic compass, our storyteller transports the audience all over the world, revealing folktales from India, Korea and Ghana. K-5. 28 pages plus two page of notes.

Each tale can be performed on its own, as well.

Rewrite 8.15.20 [FULL LENGTH] With humor, heart, and a touch of the supernatural, IN A HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT tells the story of Joan & John, a long married couple who have come back to his Annapolis ancestral home to clear out the remnants of his recently deceased parents. But when Hurricane Norma heads for the coast, family secrets and the forces of tradition threaten to blow the couple apart. They find themselves struggling to survive the storms of middle age, long-told lies, and regret. A contemporary drama about legacy, forgiveness, and the price we pay for following all the rules.

[10 minute play] (Disponible también la version en español. Spanish language version also available.) MIA and TONY are long-time running buddies, but then there is an "innocent" kiss in a parking lot, followed by a confession to MIA's husband, REY. The subsequent tremors of this mid-life confusion shake and roll who this long-married couple think they are.

[7 PAGES] A little over 30 years before she wrote Silent Spring, her seminal book that ignited the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson, a young biologist, fell madly and completely in love with the ocean.

[TEN-MINUTE PLAY - ZOOM PLAY] In the pressure cooker of parental expectations, standardized testing and social distancing, a student and her tutor find themselves at an unexpected crossroads that might change the course of their lives.

[TEN-MINUTE PLAY] It's a throwback picture perfect patriarchal marriage in the midst of a modern upheaval. Dorothy & George are playing their roles until it gets a little too real and too current for an antiquated hierarchy. All marriage comes with sacrifice, so who will choose who gets saved?

[FIFTEEN-MINUTE PLAY] At the wedding weekend of Rachel's older sister, Rachel, 52, and her 80-year-old mother, Peg, are forced to share a hotel room. Old family wounds are inevitably opened as secrets and regrets are pulled out. Through these two women we experience how pain, fear and limiting beliefs get passed on, and how change and redemption can happen when we least expect it.

[TEN-MINUTE PLAY] It's Peequawk Public Library and Robin, a newcomer to town, has arrived to get a new library card. However, her encounter with the Librarian goes from weird to weirder until...

[TEN-MINUTE PLAY] A young graffiti artist discovers what it means to be “something” when she runs into a woman in the park sketching birds.

[TEN-MINUTE PLAY] Under the guise of vocal exercises, a sadistic vocal coach taunts and humiliates her students...and barely escapes with her life.

It is the Day of the Dead, and Mexican painter Frida Kahlo revisits the living world to tell her tale and inspire us to glories of being alive, even in the face of adversity. Through monologue and songs in Spanish and English and images of her striking self-portraits, Frida fascinates us with a life story rife with injury, triumph, creativity, addiction, heartbreak and surrender.

With Selkies, Leprechauns and Tall Tales, An Emerald World is a celebration of Ireland told through song, folk tales and a wee bit of magic. Peppered with poems and songs by the likes of James Joyce, Katharine Tynan, and Thomas Davis, An Emerald World delightfully weaves together 3 olden tales where we meet colorful characters and delightful storytelling. 40 minutes* for ages 5 and up. *can be shortened for younger audiences.