MIRS: Plays in Development






EAT ME or WHAT YOU WILL

By Karl Miller

a young couple falls prey to an elaborate guerilla marketing scheme as they navigate the stressful wormhole of marriage preperation.

THE MINOTAUR

By Anna Ziegler

A loose adaptation of the myth in which Theseus kills the Minotaur and steals Ariadne away from Crete and into an uncertain future. A poetic and quirky exploration of the vagaries of storytelling, THE MINOTAUR is set in a timeless present where its themes of love, loss and primal longings are startlingly relevant.

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH

By Randy Baker

Long before the tanks reduced Iraq to rubble there was Gilgamesh, an ancient hero who risked everything in a quest to overcome death. Considered to be one of civilizations first stories, Artistic Director Randy Baker’s retelling looks at the ancient tale with new eyes.

DREAM SAILORS

By Randy Baker

Four friends, drawn together by their uniquely powerful ability to lucid dream, awaken to make a grim discovery in their basement. Their worlds turned upside down, they must return to the dark landscape of their dreams for answers. But what lurks there might destroy them all.

BLOOD BOUND AND TONGUE TIED

By Jacqueline E. Lawton

A depression-era adaptation of OEDIPUS, Lawton's explosive BLOOD BOUND AND TONGUE TIED follows the astonishing journey of Jocasta, a black woman who passes for white and shuns her entire past when she falls in love with a successful white politician. With the birth of their son, Oedipus, Jocasta's lies instigate a wave of bloodshed and carnage.

BIRDS

By Jennifer Maisel

A woman is taken on a dark ride into New York's underbelly when she gives a homeless man her lover's coat. An urban, post 9-11, adaptation of a Grimm fairy tale.


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