Tuesday and Weeks make hats on the Great Barrier Reef waiting for the world to end. A play for two and a rabbit puppet.

Performer Erin Pike, writer Courtney Meaker, and director HATLO set out to explore what contemporary popular theater had to say about women by taking words directly from the mouths of its female characters. Using the most-produced plays for the 2014-2015 seasons (assembled annually by TCG) we created a new narrative stripping the text of its context and changing it into our own. Everything that is said and every action spoken over voiceover (with the exception of line in Auoda (“She is interrupted”) is taken directly out of a play listed below.
This is a work that deliberately takes lines and actions out of context and inserts them into a new world. We claim no ownership of the material presented below. We've released the rights to this play.

Gingerbread is a queer fairy tale about desire. Jaz (warrior) and Giselle (cursed with virginity) are two princesses who have taken over the home of a woodcutter, Uta, waiting out the end of a costly war with the mysterious (and erotic) Wolves. A stranger, Otu, blows through the cottage doors and throws their story into disarray.

In the not-so-distant future, the nation of Inner Wall expects its men and women to earn citizenship through marriage and childbearing. As an alternate pathway to citizenship, queer people are sent to serve on the border Wall to surveil the cities beyond. Caught between the famine, death, and violence they observe daily beyond the Wall and news of brewing rebellion inside their own capital city, the queer denizens of the Wall, or Qu’alls, must choose between continuing their service or joining the battle to earn their freedom.

This production contains adult language, physical violence, discussion of sexual violence, auditory depiction of sexual violence, discussion of reproductive coercion, and intimacy on stage.

Frannie hits the pathetic rock-bottom when her girlfriend, Mack, disappears. Frannie’s friends, Seth and Bach attempt to get her over the post break-up hump through a series of steps. Unfortunately, Frannie is unable to face the reality that she was abandoned without a word by a feeling, thinking human being and instead tries to come up with any other solution to Mack’s disappearance (in one scenario, bears are involved). Seth and Bach admit defeat on getting her to see reason and reach the last step: give her a book about chaos theory and parallel dimensions.

Frannie, Seth, and Bach resolve to build a machine to take them to one of these parallel dimensions where Frannie and Mack will unite and they all will generally find peace and harmony with universe. Their journey progresses through different realities and levels of denial, with a laugh track and dance sequence all before a new woman, Josie, comes to steal Bach’s heart away from the project. The friends start to face the truths of adulthood, abandonment and building a freaking cool machine in their living room. Things start to reach an equilibrium and then –

Mack comes back. The machine, ostensibly, has worked. But what does that mean? Was it meant to work? Are they actually physics geniuses? Or, is this Mack a fake? A doppelganger from a parallel universe? And what ever happened to Josie? Plunging into a dark world, the friends must now decide the fate of Mack to save Frannie and the world, or succumb to the horrible changes that are taking over each of them.