PLAYS

Full Length

The Midwives

On the day of the 2024 solar eclipse, in a state of changing laws and hard lines, one exhausted doctor feels the ground shift beneath her. Torn between her oath to heal, her faith, and her duty to the law, Dr. Bette Singer is visited by a surreal quilting circle of Puritan women whose defiance once cost them everything. As their world bleeds into the sterile walls of her hospital—and an estranged niece pulls her back into the family she's spent years avoiding—Bette must face what she owes the women she left behind. With wit and poignancy, The Midwives explores how women across generations struggle toward reconciliation, revealing hope not as harmony, but as the stubborn act of stitching a future together on broken ground.

Broken Thread

Called home for a family portrait, a mother and her daughters reunite after years of estrangement, stepping into a fragile moment thick with old wounds and unspoken truths. What begins as an uneasy gathering becomes an unflinching confrontation with the past. The weight of their shared history, especially the memory of the last portrait, turns a journey of reconciliation to gradually become a reckoning. Broken Thread weaves a story of fractured bonds, difficult choices, and the haunting realization that home is as fragile as the ties that bind it. At its heart, this is a poignant tale of resilience and reconciliation, asking: when the threads of family unravel, can they ever be mended?

COMPLICITY

COMPLICITY reimagines Antigone in contemporary Hollywood, where a former teen actress, Tig Kennedy, returns to expose the industry that once exploited her. As she films a documentary uncovering networks of continued sexual abuse and silence, Tig confronts her sister, her former mentors, and her own complicity. Her defiance—like Antigone’s burial of the forbidden—becomes a moral act that costs her everything. Through paparazzi flashes, media projections, and award-show spectacle, COMPLICITY reveals a world desperate to appear “reformed” while still protecting predators. Tig’s final speech—“Silence is complicity”—turns Hollywood’s stage into a tribunal of truth and consequence.

ONE ACTS

Erasing Time

In a quiet tattoo parlor, a woman seeks release from her painful past through ink removal. As they prepare to begin the process, hidden truths come to the surface. The specialist, an unlikely guide, helps her find catharsis in their shared silence and scars. Together, they learn that some marks fade, but true healing begins beneath the skin.

What’s What

Two sisters, Perry and Vivian, have different ways of caring for Sophie, their mother. Vivian, the Estate and Medical Proxy, has been in control of managing her mother’s estate, while Perry has been excluded. Both Sophie and Vivian have agreed to let Perry become the executor, but when Vivian backs out, they are forced to consider the impact of that decision.

SHORT PLAYS

Memorial Tree

After the death of their mother, two sisters plant a memorial tree, reuniting and finding some hope for a future supporting one another.

Dueling Technicians

A rivalry fueled by work, ego, and their shared love for a female colleague sets two computer technicians against each other, while she pursues her own search for love.

On the Line

Siblings have not seen each other for four years, as they are about to leave for their father’s funeral, fears, secrets and resentments come out of the closet.

NPX: D-Davis New Play Exchange