Rain City Projects

Tom and Sara are married. So are James and Mary. But Sara and James have been having an affair, and Tom knows about it. In "The Shark," these four characters are put at a dinner table with plenty of wine to allow all their dirty secrets and hidden desires to come out.

A young woman must have a late-term abortion, and chaos ensues on several realistic and metaphysical planes.

Plucked from the audience, three contestants live and die their way through a myriad of American incarnations as they compete for the ultimate prize, perfect enlightenment. The entire history of United States becomes their playing field, from Jamestown to the World Trade Center attack and beyond, as they struggle towards their individual goals. In between lives, the contestants visit the bardo realms, wacky worlds between death and rebirth where Stonewall Jackson and Harriet Tubman are husband and wife; and people reincarnate as corporations. Even when things seem like they couldn’t get weirder, they do, as the contestants start to reincarnate as each other and the understanding begins to dawn that enlightenment is now here and nowhere; a trillion light-years and just a blink away.