In the final chapter of this epic story, Dax Laraeda begins a journey of self-discovery and awareness that leads to a role in the rebellion and the community of magical women she has, for so long, despised.

This is Part III of a 4+ hour feminist, queer, heavy metal, sword-and-sorcery play: "The Heroine's Journey."

10 MINUTE:
See the title.
(If hearing white men sit around and talk about the 1980s and how great it was and how that's when 'men were men' gives you serious cringe, this might not be the play for you.
Unless it helps that all of their cultural touchstones start coming to life and trying to kill them.
Then you might love it!)

(10 minute) Lydia wakes up after a bender to realize she's having an alien encounter with an entity who's never heard of a species where the majority of creatures are 'straight.' Lydia soon realizes she's found what she was always looking for. Is she ready to leave the predominantly heterosexual Earth? Should she feel bad for wanting to?

FULL LENGTH: Jay and Meghan both agree: ‘Slaymaker’ is the badassest surname for anyone ever - especially a Magic the Gathering champion (or a champion in the making). But if Meghan is divorcing Jay and writing whiny articles about how tough it is to be a girl in Magic, then is she really entitled to keep using it? Legalities aside, the two decide to resolve their differences through a Magic tournament. If she wins, Meghan gets to keep ‘Slaymaker.’ But if Jay beats her...will anything ever change?

TEN MINUTE: Tom is struggling to complete his newest play, but he’s having trouble with the main female character - for years, he’s used Angel as his muse, but times have changed, and she’s locked in a closet. Still, she calls him, a representative symbol of the mythic ‘ideal woman’ across time. Tom eventually releases her, but to a new role: the object of his anger that she is no longer an acceptable representation of the female voice.

FIVE MINUTE: Maria is throwing a dinner party when Connor lets it slip that the two are a couple, despite a sizable age difference. As the two argue over what to even call their relationship, they both begin to recognize their time together might be ending.

(40-45 MINUTE ONE-ACT): In 2006, above a small town in rural Indiana, there's a weird frequency coming from the sky. Is it aliens? Ghosts? Something supernatural? A group of high-schoolers eager to get out of their town - or maybe, even, their planet - are about to find out.

TEN MINUTE: Susan is trying to pull up a video of her kids singing 'Happy Birthday' for her father's eighty-first birthday, but it's difficult given they are speaking through a window due to the COVID-19 quarantine. Louis, her father, doesn't make things easier: he's resentful Susan left him at the nursing home and now wants her to break him out.

ONE-ACT (Approximately 75 minutes): Evie and Loren look like a perfect match when they find each other on Tinder - except she’s his ex-mother-in-law. Willing to re-connect and desperate to have a first ‘date’ that isn’t horrible, Evie agrees to meet with Loren, who is searching for a way back to his ex-wife. Over the course of a date that ends up lasting 24 hours, Evie and Loren learn a lot - too much? - about each other, avoid concerned calls from Evie’s children, and get through about twenty ‘first date’ questions before realizing they might be in danger of doing something that everyone, including about thirty Yahoo Answers contributors and Evie and Loren themselves, find really problematic - falling in love.

TEN MINUTE: When Lenora, a competitive swimmer, finds she is being disqualified from a competition because her testosterone levels are unusually high for a woman. This announcement imperils her aspirations as a swimmer and challenges her relationships with friends and family. It also leads Lenora down an introspective look through her life and experiences as a ‘girl.’

10 MINUTE: A data scientist maps out a network to predict the complex twists and turns of one of life's most unfathomable mysteries: love. Either way, this is going to end badly.

FULL LENGTH: Greer has taken her girlfriend Heather, on a ‘relaxing’ trip to a midwestern lakeside cabin, with the intent of helping Heather relax and get off alcohol before they begin fertilization treatments, but the tensions build when it becomes obvious to Greer that sobering up Heather - a fully in-denial alcoholic - won’t be an easy task. Making things awkward is the sudden arrival of Dillon, Greer’s cousin, and a bisexual conservative Christian, who has some addictions of his own. Soon, Heather and Dillon’s personal demons - and the way they play off one another - are threatening to undermine their relationships and plans for the future.

(FULL-LENGTH): The world-famous Millennium Engine departs with nine passengers aboard, including Lenora, a girl with a secret past that she's desperate to escape. But when her plans are foiled by ghosts, murder, and the machinations of the Risky Business gang, Lenora must rely on her detective skills to escape the train alive in this steampunk murder-mystery.

5 MINUTE: Ari and Ellis first met in a dream. That means they are about to have a profound and everlasting romance, right? This has to be IT, right?

FULL LENGTH: Violet - 'Vee' - is in desperate need of money, as usual (she's one of those 'destitute rich' you've heard so much about from Edith Wharton novels). Without funds, she'll be forced to curtail her wild parties, social engagements, outstanding collection of men's suits, and expensive pursuit of sordid love affairs. In dire straights and strait-laced into a corset, she travels to her Aunt Beryl's rural estate to secure some ready cash. On the way she meets Alice, a potential Great Love, but how can she hope to impress this young woman in her impoverished state and with all these needy relatives around, looking for a handout? A romp in the style of Oscar Wilde (except less subtle with the queer themes).

60 MINUTE: Sasha and Alex are meeting for their umpteenth 'first date' following the death of their husband, to see if they can find a way for their relationship to work with just the two of them. But as the date quickly becomes a disaster, Alex begins to fear that Sasha has mentally moved on. A desperate series of dates forces both Sasha and Alex to comes to terms with their grief and the reality that things must change for them to move forward.

10 MINUTE: One of the world's top superhero leagues has a slot available. With lackluster male heroes and way overqualified female heroes alike vying for a place among these elites, is there even the remotest change a married mom in her 30's stands a chance? Or is there another, better way to save the world?

90 MINUTES: A female cosplayer and a woman dealing with early onset menopause unite to battle some jerks on a metro train. The heroics are awesome, but moving on from the trauma-inducing men in their daily lives proves more difficult. Can Megs and Casey make enough mental and emotional space to fall in love? Or - in true anime fashion - is LOVE what will actually end up saving them both?

60 MINUTE ONE-ACT: Two astronauts from enemy countries are orbiting on the dark side of a distant planet. Suddenly, they experience a cascade of strange events. Alarms go off. Strange entities appear on the monitors. Are these events actually happening? Are they symptoms of isolation? Or is one of the astronauts trying to destroy the other?

10 MINUTE: When their private school bans queer couples at prom, Frankie decides to hold a prom of their own - but no-one comes except Mish, whose three hours late and forgot to bring twinkle lights. As it turns out, Mish has always wanted to go to prom and a party in Frankie's garage wasn't what they were hoping for. But amidst the drooping decorations, the terrible lighting, and Frankie's incessant roller-blading, both realize why prom was so important...and why their school's decision was so 100% FUCKED UP.

10 MINUTE: After a string of failed relationships have left her a single parent on Christmas, Jess is determined to hang her own lights but quickly realizes this will be more difficult - even treacherous - than she first thought. Making things even more awkward are the amazing lights and shy advances of her neighbor, Dan, who wants to help but also doesn’t want to get in the way of Jess’ quest for empowerment. When the two of them find themselves stuck on their respective ladders, the two find some camaraderie and comfort in the face of gusting winds and damaged hopes.