the waning hours (2025)
EVENT DATE HAS PASSED. After more than four decades of marriage, Lorna Bray Tucker’s husband Bernard leaves her for a younger lover. Lorna is still reeling from the divorce when she starts down a path of irreversible memory loss. Once an aspiring singer and amateur photographer, she now drifts between the present day and the past as her mind is ravaged by worsening Alzheimer’s disease. Lorna is present, yet absent as her memories become tangled and lost, and those closest to her struggle to come to terms with what is happening.
Previously owned (2017)
EVENT DATE HAS PASSED. This comedy explores the addictive, symbiotic relationship that we sometimes have with our cell phone. Chloe and GB are like many other couples. He appreciates her wit and untethered lifestyle, but finds himself bailing her out a tad too often, at the expense of his battery pack. Chole feels protected and cared for by GB, but chafes at his many rules, downtimes, and apps. The relationship comes to a boiling point when she compromises GB during a tequila-fueled night out…and Chloe realizes he understands more about the world and human love than she thought. Perhaps she is not the only woman in his circuit-driven heart?
the traditionalists (2016, 2014)
EVENT DATE HAS PASSED. Tenille and Nicholas Wallace appear to be the perfect couple, but behind closed doors, they are caught in a dangerous cycle of violence and contrition. Every day is like walking through a minefield for Tenille, and her only objective is survival.
cracked grain (2016, 2014)
EVENT DATE HAS PASSED. Merrilee and Cyril Auburn went to work in North Carolina’s furniture industry straight out of high school. They intended to hold jobs at the same plant until they reached retirement just as many of their relatives had done. However, in the late 1990s, globalization sent the furniture industry into a tailspin, and by 2003, the couple had lost their jobs. The play picks up the Auburns story in 2005. After being out of work for two years, the couple is experiencing financial difficulties and facing an uncertain future.