THE STORIES: Sure Thing. Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love. (1 man, 1 woman.)
Words, Words, Words recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce
Hamlet and asks: What would monkeys talk about at their typewriters? (2 men, 1 woman.)
The Universal Language brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of course, true love. (2 men, 1 woman.)
Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread is a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery. (2 men, 2 women.)
The Philadelphia presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a
Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. (2 men, 1 woman.)
Variations on the Death of Trotsky shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head. (2 men, 1 woman.)
