Sarah Hajkowski

While queer couple King and Auden slumber in domestic bliss, Lotor the Raccoon Menace (aka Auden's ex, Christina) chitters her way into Auden's stress dreams. If we're to move forward, sometimes it's necessary to take out the trash.

As a project called "America" struggles through the motions, 1 is looking for a job, or some relief, or at least a raspberry lemonade. 13+

What happens when those who cause suffering are subjected to it? How is belief warped and sawed off into violence? The setting is the afterlife of Ed Gein, grave robber and killer from the 50s, and his mother Augusta Wilhelmine, whose upbringing fractured her and made her an abusive, Bible beating mother.

Before being fictionalized in this way, Ed Gein's crimes loosely inspired the horror cinema franchise "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." But what if Ed were thrust inside something like its atmosphere?

The play is entitled "Random Augustas." It gives voice to women with the same first & middle name- Augusta Wilhelmine-, who grew up in the same county around the same time period. In an ethereal way, they consider themselves sisters.

They confront Augusta Gein as avengers in the afterlife and try to identify whether she will work for redemption. At the turn of the century, the women who built families in the hardship of Wisconsin are unsung heroes for family and connection. They may also have one hell of a vengeful bone in their bodies. But hey, at least they brought cake.

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?

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.

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.

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?

Rane confronts a memory. Paz and Angel haunt it.

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.