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Arthur Blair, a quiet, lonely man with crippling social anxiety, lives in a scuzzy New York City apartment with a minimum wage job at a frozen yogurt store. His life is made more vivid, however, by the presence of his three imaginary friends: Hector, Zeke, and Samantha. Hector is a failed children's magician, Zeke a sarcastic drug addict, and Samantha a flirtatious librarian. But Arthur's imaginary world is threatened when a new girl, Mia, moves in across the way and they strike up a relationship. As Arthur's friends begin to revolt against the new girl, and control his life in increasingly dramatic ways, he must attempt to face the reality of his situation and the source of his loneliness and despair. Imaginary is a comedic and surreal drama that examines what it means to have relationships, and how they dictate one's life.
PYP New Voices Festival Winner/Temple Theaters Production Scholastic Gold Medal Winner |
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Upon realizing that his days on Earth are numbered, Charles Coates Junior vows to record the remarkable story of his life: when he was a child, he was sent on a colonist mission to the recently discovered planet Glennanike, along with several other impoverished youth, in order to find alternate habitation for humanity. As time passed, however, their new lives crumbled beneath them as they faced adversity, uncovered shocking secrets, and fell victim to their own humanity. While recounting these events and interacting with the memories he had spent his entire life suppressing, Charles finds it harder than he could have ever imagined to face his own past. The Glennanike Colonists is at once a sci-fi adventure, a coming-of-age story, and a meditation on the nature of human civilization.
A YoungArts National Merit Selection A Blank Theater Young Playwrights Festival Semifinalist Scholastic Gold Medal Winner |
Art by Ana Branas
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Pintop isn't a place you can run away from. Pintop isn't a place at all, it's a state of mind. A state of being. You have to warrior pose through all the downward-facing dogs of the world.
Rose's friends, who have never felt real emotions, can't help her. Eve is a widowed real estate agent, now a self-help guru, who's more concerned with appearing to help than actually helping. Celia is a notorious criminal defense attorney who loves brunch cocktails and holding grudges, and has a family too. Rose's husband, whom she's pretty sure she loves, laughs too much. They met in college and fell in love over post-expressionism and overcaffeination, but the art of their relationship has died and now Rose has nothing to paint about. Rose's son, who's constantly going through phases, is a pathological liar. He's an otherwise well-adjusted 10-year-old kid, and they're really stupid, trivial, lies, but it bothers Rose more than she'd care to admit. Rose Evelyn Hawthorne lives in Pintop, a city, really more of a town, and she can't escape it. She's beginning to unravel. That is, until she's accused of murder. Pintop is a tragicomedy about Pandora's box, the oppressive cycles of modern life, parenting, friendship, gender, and what happens when something truly insane comes along to change everything. |