Rain City Projects

A dying playwright writes the first act of a ten-minute play hoping a computer will finish it. With its crew of sub-atomic crew particles, the New You Boat sets sail through a sea of quantum uncertainty on its last mission of kill or be killed versus live and let live.

Two men and two women make up the four voices of this classic fugue, charting the demise of rock star Kurt Cobain and the author’s career as a New York window cleaner.

Two colonial boatmen argue the finer points of revolutionary politics and warfare with an Irish cannon commander as they ferry him and his gun across the Delaware River. It’s Christmas night. The bitter rain has turned to driving snow. The river is choked with ice cakes the size of livestock. And on the other side are four hundred Hessians to be fought in the morning. Will they be asleep, drunk from their revels, like the Virginian General hopes? Or will they be waiting for the rag-tag rebel army with their own Christmas surprise?

Two lovers (are they lovers?) hash out their relationship in the context of having only nine and a half minutes to live.

Sparks pop from the track gaps when a senior defense department official bumps into a modern day Queen Mab on the commuter train.

Retirees Helen Suyama and her husband Jack find their new empty nest invaded by their adult children. The nest gets really crowded when terrible Uncle Hideki arrives and has a problem with their gay son Rodney.

Three worlds collide.

The classic fairy tale is retold in a particularly exuberant style, featuring a talking horse, puppet shows, and flights of magic.