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.

Karl, a famous writer, is dying, and he invites his estranged son to film his final 'death festival'.

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

Richard escaped to New York from a life of quiet desperation teaching junior high history in Baltimore. Now he subsidizes his alcoholic flirtation with oblivion by temping at a Madison Avenue advertising conglomerate. But once his boss Greg finally convinces him to “go permanent”, all corporate hell breaks loose. What do an obsessive-compulsive corporate comptroller, an ex-piano prodigy, a poetess-bartender and a burnt-out schoolteacher have in common? Well, for one they’re all mates on the Good Ship Manhattan, and as the action builds through the summer of 2001, whether they sense it or not, they’re sailing into some of the roughest seas this beaten old boat has ever seen.

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?

Love, memory and death.