Sarah Hajkowski

Sarah Hajkowski

Emerging playwright and dramaturg based in Western North Carolina. Originally from suburban New York. Invested in what makes complex humans tick, strengthens or destabilizes interpersonal connections, and dancing in and around the English language.

Plays

  • Bella Vida by Sarah Hajkowski
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, movement/physical, romantic comedy
    Meet Thor and Zay, a queer couple who've hit a bump in their adoption journey. When the birth mother changes her mind last-minute, what lengths will they go to become parents the way they've dreamed about? Can we love so much that it blinds us to risk and sacrifice? Does that make it okay to kidnap a baby?
  • Das Trema, or Something Important is About to Happen by Sarah Hajkowski
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Relationships, pregnancy + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: Relationships, pregnancy, delusions, Mental Health, dark humor, one act, dramatic one act, Love with Mental Illness
    Cass and Bann, in their 20s or 30s, reconnect after time apart. They both seek closure with their split, which occurred last year when Cass suffered an intense delusion of being pregnant with their first baby.
  • The Presentation by Sarah Hajkowski
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 3 more
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    Keyword: hero, symbolic + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, farce, parody/spoof, science fiction, young audiences
    Keyword: hero, symbolic, optimism, friendship, young audiences, tya, school plays
    A Hero's Journey in Brief- Allison is a closed off grown-up with a Presentation to give. But what happens when her live model hero starts disobeying orders, aided by an imaginative girl? A short reminder to appreciate all kinds of heroes on all kinds of journeys.
  • L'morte: an arthurian allegory by Sarah Hajkowski
    Cast: 
    4–10
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 3 more
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    Keyword: breakup, relationship + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, fable/folktale, verse
    Keyword: breakup, relationship, King Arthur, knights, grief, funeral, imagination vs. reality, love, identity, friendship
    What happens when we idolize someone who reverses our expectations? How do we organize all that love in the wake of death? The story of contemporary people trying to reconcile what it's like running out of time and having expectations of others.

    Main character Lac is kind of a Lancelot figure. Their ex, A.P. cuts them off six months before the play's action. A.P. is then killed in a car...
    What happens when we idolize someone who reverses our expectations? How do we organize all that love in the wake of death? The story of contemporary people trying to reconcile what it's like running out of time and having expectations of others.

    Main character Lac is kind of a Lancelot figure. Their ex, A.P. cuts them off six months before the play's action. A.P. is then killed in a car collision. So Lac has a lot left to say. They find themself using the King Arthur stories to frame things, investigating how they idolized A.P. early on and "crowned him King Arthur." Also in this process of healing and hurting are Lac's longtime imaginary(?) friend Gwynne, their stepbrother Gideon, and estranged mother, Sharon. Maybe some other ethereal energies too. Who can help Lac answer the questions they need in order to move on? Can any string of words accomplish that for us, or is healing something we choose deliberately over and over again despite the difficulty?
  • Bridges by Sarah Hajkowski
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: friendship, suicide + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, zoom
    Keyword: friendship, suicide, Heavy Subject Matter, bitterness, single-setting, a short drama, Charleston, lowcountry
    Rane confronts a memory. Paz and Angel haunt it.
  • Babe, an inpatient play by Sarah Hajkowski
    Cast: 
    3–6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: dark comedy, suicide + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: dark comedy, suicide, Mental Health, humor, dark humor, Hospital, small cast, female protagonist, pop culture
    One-act [25-35mins].
    One late evening in a private room in the mental health unit of a hospital, 22-year-old inpatient Babe makes casual, talk-show-esque conversation with a hallucinated audience about herself. It is revealed from the get-go that Babe deals with suicidality and social adversity. However it is equally clear that Babe has a definitive, charismatic personality and especially sense of...
    One-act [25-35mins].
    One late evening in a private room in the mental health unit of a hospital, 22-year-old inpatient Babe makes casual, talk-show-esque conversation with a hallucinated audience about herself. It is revealed from the get-go that Babe deals with suicidality and social adversity. However it is equally clear that Babe has a definitive, charismatic personality and especially sense of humor which carry her through the roughest of times. We follow Babe's night in the hospital (her first? her last?) in fluid conversation with reality, and meet several figures passing through this present to another plane who will inform her active questions about whether life is enough to stick around for.

    NOTE: "Babe" includes frank discussion and humor around suicide. Profanity also occurs.
    Content: Babe considers taking her life [trigger warning: means described] by piercing her wrist with a spring-loaded pen multiple times in-text. Also briefly mentioned are attempt at suicide by subway train and drowning in bathwater.