
Previous Productions
A brief history of our past productions.
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"Typhus in Wartime" by James McLindon
"Iraq War Prayer" by Jean Yeager
Spring, 2024, Rogue
“Typhus in Wartime": Two young doctors in occupied Poland discover how to save their town’s Jewish inhabitants: by starting a typhus epidemic.
“Iraq War Prayer”: based on interviews, dramatizing the events of President’s Day Weekend 1991 at the start of “Operation Desert Storm”, the first war in Iraq.

Southern Baptist Sissies
Del Shores
Fall, 2023
With a theme of religion clashing with sexuality, Southern Baptist Sissies follows the journey of four gay boys in the Baptist Church. Storyteller Mark Lee Fuller tries to create a world of love and acceptance in the church and clubs of Dallas, Texas, while desperately trying to find a place to put his own pain and rage. The world Mark creates also includes two older barflies, Peanut and Odette, whose banter takes the audience from hysterical laughter to tragedy and tears.
Themes/Talking Points: religion, growing up gay in the church, childhood trauma, suicide

The Nether
Jennifer Haley
Fall, 2023
What is reality, anyway? The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. But when a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the truly darkest corners of the imagination.

The Flick
Annie Baker
Fall, 2023
In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35mm film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.
Themes/Talking Points: new technology, friendship, economic inequality and underpaid jobs, racism, depression

One Act-I-Fest!
A Collaboration with Fresno City College
Spring, 2023
Six one act plays presented in collaboration with Fresno City College.
"Wisteria Blooms" A One-Act Play by Joe Salembier and explore a shifting cultural paradigms.
"Whisper into the Ground" by Olivia Haller: In the aftermath of a tragic car accident, rumors about who was responsible circulate on social media.
"The Curling Play" by Avery Ingvarson is a ten minute piece on gender. Or, it's maybe it's just about the game of curling; you decide.
"The Acceptance Tests" by Abigail Henkin: A teenager must decide how far she will go to earn the asylum she desperately needs.
"Bigger Than Pretend" by Robin Rice: Two homeless lovers sleep on the street in a refrigerator carton. It's their anniversary, but instead of celebrating, one sits by a city pond morosely, silently fishing. But, there are no fish.
"Both Sides, Now" by Elizabeth Archer: He and She have come to the end of their relationship, but they need to correct their biggest mistake before either can move on.

Webster's Bitch
Jacqueline Bircher
Spring, 2023
When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some unexpected profanity, the employees of Webster's Dictionary find themselves at the center of an internet uprising over gender and obscenity in the age of social media. As office politics collide with ambition, morality, and lexicography, the future of the English language hangs in the balance. A play about vulgar words and the people who define them.
Themes/Talking Points: misogyny, workplace politics, social media, language, profanity, slurs, feminism, sexism, glass ceiling, gender
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