Synopses of Select Plays If you are a theatre company, forensics or drama student or director in search of a play and find that one of these interests you, feel free to e-mail Mrinalini. Note: Some of these plays have been published in anthologies. Please be aware that if you perform a play from an anthology, whether or not you charge admission for the performance, YOU MUST OBTAIN THE AUTHOR'S PERMISSION in advance. It is an infringement of the author's copyright to do otherwise, and in this age of the Internet, it's really easy for an author to discover that you're performing his/her play illegally. Emilie and Ishmael appear to be having the same dreams. There are some things that a couple just shouldn't share… Ashok and Sheela, a newly-married Indian-American couple, find their lives changed when they go to India for a relative's wedding. What happens when the country your parents left for better opportunities becomes the new land of opportunity? BOOM is a rethinking of cultural and personal identities, based on a dramatically changing global landscape. The story of what happens when 25-year-old Leela's parents, who immigrated to the US from India, are forced to confront a big mistake-they had forgotten to take daylight savings time into account when they had Leela's Hindu astrological chart drawn at her birth. Accordingly, they have the chart redrawn, and the startling prediction sets the young woman on a journey of arranged dating and cyber romance, as her parents desperately try to preserve their family's identity. Little do they realize that Leela's destiny is closer than either they or Leela can imagine. An intercultural romantic comedy. BOOM (one-act version) Ashok and Sheela, an Indo-American couple, are visiting India for a relative's wedding. On New Year's Eve, amid fireworks and gastro-intestinal problems, they realize that they have very different feelings when it comes to ethnic identity. Harold, a gay urban professional, visits an urban shaman in the hopes of ridding himself of the half-woman half-rabbit succuba that visits him nightly. If he seems too good to be true… he probably is. Dating in this city just got a whole lot weirder. Bemused "Hell hath no fury like a [muse] scorned." Sweet Dreams, Baby Grace, a thirty-something bookseller, wakes up one night to find that the "man of her dreams," has materialized. But as things start going wrong, Grace realizes that there are some things that even the perfect man can't fix. Hart's Palpitations (co-written, with music by Matthew S. Anderson) A ten-minute musical that takes place in a clinic for the treatment of love-related injuries. Can Dr. Hart overcome his previous bad experience with love, save his love-struck patient and finally notice the loyal Nurse O'Plasty - all in ten minutes? Written as part of Raw Impressions Musical Theatre event number seventeen (RIMT 17 - "love by degrees"). Gina, a Westchester housewife, visits her Aunt Loretta in Brooklyn, after Loretta's brother Frank passes away. While clearing out Frank's room, Gina comes across something that could cause a potentially explosive situation. Confessions from the Afterlife Steven and Rahul, 18-year-old best friends in life, meet in the afterlife, where one has a lot of explaining to do. David and Diane were high school sweethearts who married after Diane became pregnant. Now they live in a cramped studio apartment in Manhattan, where Diane takes care of their two-year old son. When David announces that his boss has fired him, the couple spirals into an argument that forces them to reevaluate their married life together. |
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