Playwrights Local | Cleveland, OH | www.playwrightslocal.org | PL Radio presents new audio plays and other recordings produced by Playwrights Local, Cleveland's only theater devoted to original, home-grown works. Founded in 2015, our mission is to foster diverse talents and raise the profile of area playwrights both within Greater Cleveland and beyond. For more info on our season and programs, visit us at www.playwrightslocal.org.
The Ghost Ship Hunter
Written by Christopher Johnston
Directed by Rachel Zake
Featuring Robert Hawkes, Benjamin Gregg, & Erin K. Moran
Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/ghost-ship-hunter/.
The year is 2078. Dr. Candace Wheatstone and her partner, Frank Drake, V, use time travel to find clues to treat diseases that emerged during the era of global climate change and COVID. However, using time travel also to find evidence of ancient ghost ship stories has become Frank’s hobby, often getting him into trouble. That leads to this journey back to the Arctic Ocean in the 1770s, when Frank gets blown off a ghost ship in an ice storm. Candace and her father Alexander, a distinguished forensic astrophysicist, must figure out what really froze the old pirates in place -- including one running down a corridor -- before a whaling ship found their three-masted schooner off the coast of Greenland.
23 Sept 2021
Love and Ecstasy by Gail Nyoka
Love and Ecstasy
Written by Gail Nyoka
Directed by Terrence Spivey
Featuring Jeannine Gaskin, Christina Johnson, Jill Kenderes, and Sharron McPherson-Foxx
Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/love-and-ecstasy/.
From Ireland to Barbados, to Trinidad and to England, trauma passes through five generations of women. Each one denies her truth at her own cost and suffers in her own way. Each searches for love. The narrator has reached a crisis. Like her great-great grandmother, she is a seer. It is at this point of crisis that the narrator discovers her hidden abilities. Is she descending into madness? Do her ancestors have anything to teach her? And is she able to listen?
29 Aug 2021
Things Needing Explanation by Julia Fisher
Things Needing Explanation
Written by Julia Fisher
Directed by Anne McEvoy
Featuring Dominique L. Gardner, Nadia Salett, Amy Schwabauer, and Lisa L Wiley
Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/things-needing-explanation/.
Jacklean is driving her whip-smart teenage granddaughter Georgia to her house for the weekend when they decide to play Things Needing Explanation - a game from Georgia’s childhood where the two try to outsmart each other with made-up crime scenes. But when an invented crime begins to have eerie parallels to the real world, Georgia and Jacklean must unite their love of murder mysteries and each other to solve the case and save their family.
15 Jul 2021
The Portraits by Tom Hayes
The Portraits
Written by Tom Hayes
Directed by Brian Zoldessy
Featuring John Busser and Lindsey Mitchell
Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/portraits/.
After attending the funeral of their father, two adult siblings are stranded in a remote area next to their family plot. With a storm threatening and strange sounds coming from the nearby forest, 40-ish Ben and his younger sister Sam are forced to leave the plot on foot. As they walk, the two re-hash events of the past. They both air their grievances until the strange sounds begin to take physical form, forcing them into an abandoned house. Strangely, the house is not entirely empty and not entirely unfamiliar. There, they discover a truth they did not know, and come to terms with their shared history.
3 Jun 2021
Heirloom by Mike Geither
Heirloom
Written & performed by Mike Geither
Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/heirloom/.
Heirloom is a non-fiction solo performance about four generations of my extended maternal family that’s based on interviews and historical records. Beginning with my mother and her siblings, and moving on to her father and grandfather’s lives, it examines the social and emotional inheritance of an extended family affected by incest, alcoholism, violence and genocide. It attempts to shed understanding on how any single person may affect the generation of family members that follow him or her and to glean a greater understanding of the dynamics of incest and rape.
26 May 2021
Family Markers by Faye Sholiton
Family Markers
Written by Faye Sholiton
Directed by Fred Sternfeld
Featuring Mary Alice Beck and John Busser
Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/family-markers/.
On a June day in 1960, a still-grieving brother and sister made a horrifying discovery. Just days after their brother's burial, someone had exhumed his body and moved it, with no forwarding address. Exactly 50 years later, two adult strangers with the same last name run into each other at the family plot. They will attempt to sort out what might have gone wrong while everybody was above ground. And whether this brand of mishegas is hereditary.
20 May 2021
Limbo by Agnes Herrmann
Limbo
Written by Agnes Herrmann
Directed by Brian Zoldessy
Featuring Agnes Herrmann, Lindsey Mitchell, and Paul Slimak
Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/limbo/.
Tess has recently lost her mother; Susan lives with her own mother, who has crippling arthritis. They meet on a commuter train heading home, after a blown transformer cuts the power out. Tess gets claustrophobic in the dark. Susan becomes a chatterbox. The atmosphere grows stifling. The two think they have nothing in common...but do they? In Limbo, the statement “your truth is my truth” becomes a reality that neither Tess nor Susan can deny.
13 Mar 2021
Entanglement by Les Hunter
Entanglement: A Historical Fantasy of Almost-Love and Almost-Loss, Art History and Entry-Level Quantum Physics
Written by Les Hunter
Directed by Christine McBurney
Featuring John Busser & Cathleen O’Malley
Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre
Info & credits available at: www.playwrightslocal.org/entanglement
"Entanglement" reimagines the 1925 moment when physicist Erwin Schrödinger discovered quantum mechanics. In this alternate history, Schrödinger's breakthrough in physics (and love) is inspired by art historian Gertrud Bing. Bing and her mentor Aby Warburg famously asserted that all societies develop at a relatively similar and interconnected rate, despite differences of space and time. This theory is spookily similar to the phenomena of quantum entanglement, which holds that two particles, once entangled, move and change at the same moment. Schrödinger made this discovery during a two-and-a-half week sexual spree in the Swiss Alps. Cats may or may not have been killed.
13 Mar 2021
Every Play is a Radio Play by Meghan Louise Wagner
Every Play is a Radio Play When You’re Blind
Written by Meghan Louise Wagner
Directed by Constance Thackaberry
Featuring Denise Astorino, Leonard Goff, Stuart Hoffman, Kyle Huff, Rachel Maria Inés, Diane Mull, & Laura Stitt
Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre
Info & credits available at: http://www.playwrightslocal.org/everyplayisaradioplay/
Layers of privilege collide when a naïve bridesmaid meets a semi-famous blind artist on a public bus. It’s Julia’s first time on the RTA and Jason offers to guide her across town. On the way, the unlikely pair discovers an unusual connection that is central to Jason’s art and career, making Julia the perfect subject for his next book.
5 Feb 2021
Stranded by Edward J. Walsh
Stranded
Written by Edward J. Walsh
Directed by Tim Tavcar
Featuring Agnes Herrmann
Produced by Playwrights Local
Info & credits available at: http://www.playwrightslocal.org/stranded/
Vickie Schultz, a reporter, is not happy. Let go by her newspaper in Cincinnati, she starts a new job in New Jersey without her family, friends, and cheating fiancé. Vickie expects to cover a breaking story about the Mayor and his female Police Chief. Instead, she’s assigned to the arrival of a whale on the shore — a huge pelagic mammal, not unlike the mythical Moby Dick. The sooner this stranded subject returns to the ocean (or doesn’t), the sooner Vickie gets her career back on track. As with her own struggles, though, the whale’s plight won’t be resolved quickly.
31 Jan 2021
Flame Puppy by Mike Geither
Flame Puppy
Written & directed by Mike Geither
Featuring Benjamin Gregg, Beau Reinker, Amy Schwabauer, & Lauren B. Smith
Produced by Playwrights Local
Info & credits available at: www.playwrightslocal.org/flame-puppy/
A beatnik finds peace through visions of a mythic turkey. A legless lout survives a ruthless drug dealer and rises to fame by manufacturing trailer hitches. The origin of the human body is recounted by two friendly anthropologists. And to bring them all together – a house-sized puppy made entirely of flame.
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