Three couples gather on the back deck of a very modest suburban home for a mid-summer barbecue where, the hosts, Mike and Deb, struggle with feelings of inadequacy about their home decor, their clothes, their careers, their culinary skills, and pretty much everything else. Ash is a successful yuppy with impeccable taste but annoys the hell out of his wife, Lulu, who likes to get very drunk, very quickly. Win mistakes his obnoxious confidence for charm and his new girlfriend, Glory, is just too young and beautiful to be tolerated by other women.
Throughout the first act feelings are hurt over the difference between "Organic" and "All Natural" beef, who’s pregnant and who’s just put on a little weight, and a nearly crippling I-Phone addiction. The superficial, neuroses laden interpersonal squabbles bubble over to a flash of inept violence when Win makes what we learn is just one in a series of passes at Deb. As the act closes, the group discovers that the rest of the world has been literally falling apart during their little, terrible barbecue.
Act Two takes place on the same deck for another barbecue to celebrate their one year post-apocalypsiversary. In a year where the only way to measure success is survival, roles have reversed and we explore how each characters' basic nature has allowed them to adapt and thrive or has pushed them to the brink of extinction. Though the drawing-room comedy style persists, their troubles are now very real and a mysterious visitor incites another flash of violence.

The End Times are upon us! It's about time. The congregants of the Third Baptist Church of Uncertain, Texas are only certain about two things; the rapture is DEFINITELY happening sometime in the next two hours (the Bible Math checks out), and two hours is not enough time to squeeze every single drop of life from this wicked, wonderful world. But some of them will try. RAPTURED is a fresh farce—part Boeing, Boeing, and oddly enough, part The Last Picture Show—full of love triangles, mistaken identities, a puckish youth pastor, a Preacher on a dubious mission, lots of doors, and, of course, deeply irrevocable existential longing. When the clock is ticking, sometimes who you are and what you really want is the greatest revelation of all. -- A New Play Commissioned by Theatre Three and Co-Written by Matt Coleman (World Premiere, April 2019 - Dallas, TX)

An odd and whimsical tale about a 37 year old virgin, an evil scientist, his patchwork henchman, and the message that being full of love, kindness and understanding can make up for literally not having a brain.