Carolynne Wilcox

This protest piece explores the inner thoughts of a writer asked to create a piece on a very current topic, but the news cycle is so rapid & chaotic they can't seem to pay attention to the topic at hand? Could potentially work as street theatre or radio theatre as well.

A tale about Odin's ravens, Huginn & Muninn - despite some newly-revealed human origins, the ravens have flown far and wide for millennia, even following Ragnarok, when the All-Father was killed. Now signs are pointing in the direction of another Ragnarok, and the promise they made to their master should such a thing arise once more. A two-part one act, divided into "Feathers" and "Flesh".

Quiet, invisible Karena walks into "A Media Luz - Antiquities and Curiosities" where the very thing she was looking for - a pair of Tango dancing shoes - is the only thing on display...and as the piece goes on, she discovers something is not quite right about the store and its proprietors in this contemporary piece partially inspired by the song "A Media Luz", sung by Tango singer Carlos Gardel and Hans Christian Andersons "The Red Shoes".

Two anachronistic strangers wake up in an unfamiliar and unsettling place that keeps changing as they try to figure out where they are, why they’re there and what they need to do to move forward. Every shift is a small clue…if they can stop arguing long enough to figure it out. As they travel through the nightmare landscape, with help of two ciphers who take on different aspects from both their pasts and the landscape, they slowly begin to put together the pieces of the puzzle regarding where they are, and more importantly, who they are to each other.
Trigger warnings: descriptions of the 9/11 experience; accidental death and grief

When a mysterious catastrophe strikes in combination with the ongoing climate crisis, estranged sisters (with unsuspecting family in tow) have an unexpected reunion at their remote cabin in the woods, where dirty laundry is exposed and painful truths come to blinding light...against an already intense backdrop of possible disaster.

Police Officer Jeannette at the park, comes upon a distraught Kathryn, who claims to be her sister-in-law and mother to a niece she's never heard of.

Man and woman wake up after she's rescued him from drowning & they've hooked up. He tries to get her to stay, while she tries to find something of hers he's hidden. Inspired by Celtic folklore.

A daughter goes to her mother's deserted, island home to find a letter waiting with some startling discoveries and an unusual request. A five-minute solo piece to be performed in an Irish accent.

Jen awakens on her wedding day to find Iphigenia staring back at her in the mirror. As they lament what might become of them if they go through with their nuptials, something happens to change everything. (This piece was updated/overhauled 6/2023.)

An inventive way to smile and get revenge on your cheating husband.

A woman lusts after a pair of shoes seen in the window of a thrift store, but their purchase leads to more than she bargained for in this riff on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes".

A monologue about who was REALLY behind the tragedy of Romeo & Juliet...

A spanglish adaptation of Orpheus and Eurydice, complete with characters from the Aztec/Mexican Folkloric tradition. Yuri is killed by Coatl on their wedding day to Orfeo, who uses the saddest song they've ever created to pass through the barriers to the underworld and bring back their beloved.

Cam's most fervent desire is to be enjoyed and ingested by the beautiful siren across the room who seems to have taste only for the bland American.

A newly-dead woman discovers love.

Monologue: A newly-departed soul discovers what happens next.

Woman walks into a bar...and has to part with exactly what she bargained for 10 years prior.

The Three Fates, the timeless sisters who’ve woven, measured and cut the threads of the lives of mortals have done their duties throughout time. Hermes, the Messenger God, pays them a visit just as they realize Atropos’s shears have gone missing. It’s been forbidden for them to jump into the dreams of mortals, but suddenly they must, before the dead, literally, begin to rise on earth. Contains themes of loss, domestic issues and climate change. A lyrical journey through contemporary dreams, the god realm and the underworld, adaptable for 5-15+ actors (of any ethnicity) and appropriate for educational purposes.

Vilified across the ages through myths, tales and artwork mostly seen through the (unreliable?) male gaze, Clytemnestra's got her own tale to tell about what happened the day Agamemnon finally returned from Troy...and its disastrous consequences. Many of us know or have heard of The Oresteia from Greek myth…this play centers Clytemnestra, who, in anticipation of Agamemnon's return after 10 years of war, puts into action a fatal plan with its seeds in his sacrifice of their daughter 10 years prior…including a completely different ending that seeks to right the scales and put to rest, once and for all, the curse of the House of Atreus.

It is the year 2121, and the Earth has weathered through the slow, gradual domino effects of climate change disaster - population has been drastically reduced. Four sisters gather at the deathbed of their controlling mother. Things take a darker turn when mother collapses and an unearthly visitor is a harbinger of things to come as they discover there are greater, more chaotic, universal forces at work in which they surprisingly play a role, in this post-apocalyptic, family-oriented drama where gods walk the earth with disconcerting agendas. But time is happening concurrently, and while the past informs the future, the present can also inform the past. Can the world be saved from total annihilation? Or will humanity reap the final gifts of what we have sown?

The prince & his parents agree: he needs a bride. The princess wants to be accepted for who she is... the pea just wants to be the best pea it can be!

Theo just wanted to spend the afternoon reading his newspaper in the park, but a young, perky interloper interrupts his afternoon with the possibility there are things around him he can't see.

Sheila and Peter are miscommunicating, and it has (hilariously?) disastrous consequences.

Clytemnestra has just avenged her daughter by killing her husband, and now it’s time to kill the concubine & spoil of war he brought with him from Troy. Or...maybe not. Fate demands one thing, but can Cassandra possibly negotiate another?

Mary and Violet travel the ruins of a virus-ravaged world. One day, a mysterious man who has no memory of his past stumbles upon their camp with a particular and unsettling interest in Mary's unborn child. Inspired by the Jimi Hendrix album "Are You Experienced". 14 pages, runs about 10 minutes long.

Steve met Elizabeth online, arriving at her house for dinner and a fun evening, but her sister, Danielle, has other ideas, and he gets way more than he bargained for in this twisty and twisted black comedy.

Persephone's journey from the innocent summer land of her mother to the dark seduction of the underworld in her own words. A solo piece with movement.

Pandora tries to ignore the mysterious yet seductive voices inside the forbidden box Ep has brought home as their wedding present, as they try to cajole her into opening it and setting them free. A solo play written as a vehicle for electronic voice manipulation.

Rachel and her friends travel through a world of make-believe and reality as kids and adults as they try to make sense of difficult life circumstances, love and mental illness.

Madame Zelda is in the middle of hosting her failing Vegas show when she unwittingly taps into the thoughts of passengers on an ill-fated plane flight.

Annie and Mona, roommates and formerly best friends, are both fighting over Brad. They seek council from their psychologist, Dr. Stephens, who employs a decidedly experimental brand of therapy.

A sequel, of sorts, to Jean Genet's The Maids. Incarcerated in an institution for the criminally insane for her sister's murder, Solange must untangle the voices in her head from the voices of reality to find her way back to some semblance of sanity and life.

Frankie and Rita wake up and find themselves in an unfamiliar room, and must figure out who they are, what they are doing there and why they need each other before time runs out!

Oona has her hands full with all the men in her tribe professing their love and trying to get with her. The other women aren't happy about it either in this adaptation of the short story by Patricia Highsmith. Feminist themes.