Claire McNerney

“We were at a party when the world ended.” The musicians from the Titanic are forced to eternally lead the audience through different parties/end of the world scenarios as part of their afterlife. Can their friendship survive so many endings? Or will they splinter into hatred forever? This is a play about death, grief, and community.

The Last Days of Camp Sugar Lake follows four counselors at a sleepaway camp.

Peony loves camp more than real life, but this year, things keep going wrong: One of Peony’s campers had an allergic reaction that sent her to the hospital. Her boyfriend, Squirrel, might be breaking up with her, her oldest friend at camp, the prankster Crimini Jacket, is acting suspicious, and the new drama counselor, Hamlet, doesn’t have any respect for camp tradition. Will Peony be able to keep camp from fully crumbling? Or will her idealized version of adolescence fall apart, too.

In the near future, Lena signs up for a paid trial study to pay for college. But will she make it to finals?

Lydia boards a spaceship that won’t arrive at its destination for thousands of years. It’s her job to come in and out of cryosleep every hundred years to make sure that the ship is running smoothly. As the culture and language of the ship shift over time and things start going wrong, Lydia has to figure out how to communicate with people who have no memory of Earth—or else the ship may never arrive at its destination.
‘Are We There Yet?’ explores the effects of isolation on generations of people.

It’s The East Jones Street Coffee House’s Saturday Night Slam! As our lovely poets present their work, something seems amiss—are they all about the same person?

Construction workers surveying a site scheduled for demolition come across an old bench in the middle of an empty field. As different people stop by to reminisce on the bench, we are transported into their memories of it. A play about change, construction, and childhood.

Two years ago, humanity stopped healing. Now, a lonely young adult works in a convenience store plagued by resource scarcity. When a thunderstorm traps four people inside the store, they are forced to reckon with their circumstances, and eachother. If everything is fatal, how do you attempt to live a normal life?