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Family Hardware by Gary Corbin at Fertile Ground

Family Hardware

Finalist, 2019 New Comedy Festival, B Street Theatre, Sacramento, CA Willy is a man of a certain age, who has largely lost interest in sex. His younger wife Katherine’s appetite is as voracious as ever. When Willy’s doctor, Kyle Warren, informs him that his heart is no longer healthy enough for sex, Katherine convinces him…

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KleptoFamilia

KleptoFamilia

This family will steal your heart – and maybe your wallet. Cate, a divorced middle-aged woman, is in desperate financial straits – not only from her divorce, but from bailing herself and her daughter out of jail for stealing. Her control-freak boyfriend Edgar wants to take their relationship to the next level, but he’s too…

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Happy Anniversary - Serendipity Players

Happy Anniversary

Robert and Beth meet for dinner on the first, fifth, and tenth anniversaries – of their divorce. Still civil – though just barely – the couple tries to salvage a friendship from the ashes of their ruined marriage. Arguments over the choice of wine, whether to share their food and Robert’s playboy past turn the…

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Threshold by Redmond Reams

Threshold, by Redmond Reams

Exploring the world outside the safety of our families is one of the most exciting and scary activities we do. Threshold explores how it is for Mark, a five year-old boy previously abused as a baby in his birth home who found safety in a loving adoptive family at age 1. Mark is terrified of…

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Dad, I Hardly Know You

Dad, I Hardly Know You

Just when never-married, forty-something Victor thinks he may have talked his new girlfriend Andrea, an unemployed erotic yoga instructor, into moving in with him, his estranged father Abe barges back into his life—suitcase in hand. Abe’s obsession with his own aging body and his take-no-prisoners tendency to say whatever crosses his mind leads to confessions…

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Lying in Judgment One Act Play

Lying in Judgment – One Act Play

Peter Robertson, serving on the jury of a murder trial, realizes that the murder being tried is the one he committed. Or was it? He and five other jurors struggle to reach consensus, but their perspectives on what they heard are as different as their personalities. Alfred, an unemployed recent college grad, spent most of…

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Murder on Russell Street

Drama, full-length. Based on the legend of the haunting of what is now the White Eagle Saloon in Portland, OR, a young Polish immigrant is accused of two murders he did not commit. Full-length play Drama All audiences Approx. 100 pages Cast size: 10 Development History: Table reading, PDX Playwrights, Feb 21, 2012.