Rain City Projects

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

Mandi must reconcile the burial wishes of her dead, identical twin sister.

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

At 3:20 PM on Tuesday, May 21, 1946 Louis Slotin's hand slipped-- a small, practically insignificant blunder, except that Slotin was the chief -bomb builder at Los Alamos, and at that fateful moment he held in his hands a plutonium bomb core named "Rufus". The slip caused a chain reaction that in turn released a deadly "prompt burst" of radiation. Slotin and others saw a blue glow and felt a momentary flux of heat on their faces. Slotin flung the shell to the floor but it was too late. The damage was done. In the milliseconds it took for the plutonium to spit its deadly neutrons, Louis Slotin became a walking dead man. With a structure inspired by classical music's sonata allegro form, LOUIS SLOTIN SONATA traces a brilliant scientist's last nine days, as his body and mind gradually succumb to the chaos wrecked by radiation. Reliving the moment of his accident again and again, Slotin slowly makes his own unique way to redemption.

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.

TUESDAY is the story of a day in the life of Audie McCall; no ordinary thing, since every day in Audie’s life is, in a way, a life in itself. Audie suffers from an extremely rare form of Korsakoff’s Syndrome, a kind of amnesia that causes him to forget everything he knows about himself every time he falls asleep. So this Tuesday morning, just like every morning, he must be painstakingly re-taught every detail of his existence. Through the course of the day, using ruthless psychodrama and insidious metaphysics, Audie’s doctors lay bare the events that brought him to the fateful night he lost his life story and the humanity the rest of us take for granted.

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?

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

Love, memory and death.