Abbey Fenbert

Devotees call it a self-improvement seminar, detractors call it a cult. The Facilitator promises success — if you’re willing to do as she says. A comedy for the late-capitalist age, or anyone who binge-watched those NXIVM documentaries.

Stalin’s man-made famine rages against the Ukrainian peasantry. Nadya, an idealistic young communist, is assigned to helm a small village’s collective farm. When she walks into a pastoral apocalypse, she must question everything she believes about the world.

‘I have called here women of specific talents / who have cause against the magistrate.’ New England, 1600s. Verity has summoned a group of unlikely conspirators to the woods for one purpose: to murder the town magistrate. But strange changes occur around them the deeper they delve into their plot. Are they signs from God, or messages dropped through cracks in time? An eerie, fervent drama about power, fate and our colonial past.

Clare treks to the remote shrine of folk heroine Loretta North to discover what it takes to survive in the desert. A play for one performer in two different centuries.

Tillerman House is an intentional community. Shit is organic, sustainable, local, shade-grown, fair-trade and cruelty-free— until Leif comes along. Does the ethos of tolerance extend to an ex-fratbro who doesn’t know a zine from a zen garden? A comedy about the lengths we will go to for both our principles and our desires.

It starts simple: A lady wants a child. Specifically an older child, nonzero grateful, not boring, babies need not apply. She sees adoption as her chance to do some good in the world. But Mercy, Brawn and Devil-Eye (named for what they are missing) have their own ideas about what makes a family. Where lie the borders between our individual and collective selves, and what happens when they shift? CHILD is a highly theatrical exploration of family, conviction and conversion.

Leya Jahin is an Egyptian-American woman from a Muslim family who believes nothing and belongs nowhere. Yet somehow she’s the one who gets the news that Detroit is one hour from apocalyptic destruction. In this one-woman play, LJ must confront her (lack of) beliefs before a Voice goes full-on Sodom and Gomorrah over the city.

In a mysterious station, three competitors -- Hawk, Dip and Pigeon -- battle for an unknown prize. A dark comedy about truth, understanding and desire under a violent social order.

Ten-year-old twins Polly and Wilfred struggle with the trials of genius and of siblinghood.

Lauren visits the Crone for help with heartache. If she passes the test, maybe she can find happiness at last. 10-minute comedy for two women.

Magda's on the steps of her Catholic University to distribute condoms in feminist defiance. Mary's here to distribute abstinence. Take your pick!

Simon and Ned are having a very important conversation in the men’s loo. But someone is there who doesn’t belong. Will the demands of courtesy triumph?