Homerica: A Trilogy on Sexual Liberation

Requirements: 33 Characters can be played 6F. 11M or (if absolutely necessary) 5F, 9M. Setting: A basement space in the Village in New York City, used three different ways for the corresponding time periods depicted in the play.  In Act 1, “Bull’s Books,” it is an old apartment-cum-antiquarian bookstore, early evening on Veterans’ Day, sometime…

Chambers: A Recreation in Four Parts

Requirements:  2F, 3M, and 4 Ushers (preferably M) Setting:  Four bedrooms in the ancestral home of a Kansas City playwright. The pattern of exits and entrances from each chamber to the next should follow the way blood enters the human heart and the way it exits out of the human heart to the rest of…

16 July 2009: Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor reassures the Senate Judicial Committee that she is all for “the letter of the law.”  She cleverly dodges all questions about “empathy” or “the spirit of the law.” She refuses to be our Antigone to their Republican Kreons.