Antwerp, 1660. Aphra Behn -- Englishwoman, poet, spy, and soon to become the first professional female playwright -- is flat broke and waiting to meet her contact and ex-lover, the double agent William Scot. She must use all her wiles and wit -- and a dalliance with the landlord's daughter -- to pay off her inn bill and get safely back to London. A brief Restoration-style comedy in rhyming couplets.
A lone American spaceman marooned on Mars when his mission goes wrong. He is proud to be the first American on Mars. He now considers himself a Martian - and then a real one turns up
Post-apocalyptic wilderness was never funnier. Follow the adventures of Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companion Dog (a young man undergoing a voluntary species demotion) as they wander through the former northeastern United States. Zetta, Dog and their little troupe are on their way to a gig in China, assuming they can find it. . .and survive the journey. A theatrical, darkly comic variation on the classic doomsday genre, with five original songs.
It's the year 2509, exactly ten minutes before the end of the world -- and the Oldest Living Human, a 512-year-old Earthling, refuses to evacuate. Can the Captain of the last transport and her Lunatic adjunct persuade the memory-choked old woman to leave her home?
38 million people visit Las Vegas every year for the glitz, the tits and the gold. But what's it like to live and work in America's Disneyland for grown-ups? Could you tell what's real and what's just a mirage?
Four late nights, five lost souls, one poodle gone Elvis. Above an after-hours club in an urban art slum, a painter loses control of her brush, a romance writer loses control of her heroine, an ESL teacher loses control of the to-be verb, a neighborhood activist turns into a migratory sea bird -- and a photographer called Jerry is not what he seems. A dark rhapsodic comedy about the perils of living by formula.
A scientist in flight from a terrifying truth she's only glimpsed. A twelve-year-old superhero in flight from her ordinary life. A goddess on the lam from boredom, and a trio of Russian brothers on a musical mission. Eight strangers face the end of the universe one night on a train in America, hurtling along a comic-poetic collision course with time, history, and a supernatural climax.