Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty, And Truth; Lila On The Wall; And Mafia On Prozac
by Edward Allan Baker

THE STORIES: UP, DOWN, STRANGE, CHARMED, BEAUTY, AND TRUTH.

A pair of teenage sisters struggle to escape their drug-addled mother with help from their favorite down-on-his-luck uncle.

Thanks to a series of wholly organic yet startlingly unexpected plot twists, neither the characters nor their situations are how they seemed when the play began.

(1 man, 2 women.) LILA ON THE WALL.

Journalist Lila must investigate a three-month-old story about a woman who saw Jesus’ face on a graffiti-laden wall.

But the woman who saw it is off on a tour in Italy, and Carl, a young cameraman who prides himself in figuring out “emotional landscapes,” is determined to make Lila believe in something again.

(1 man, 1 woman.) MAFIA ON PROZAC.

Jay and Tee are a couple of hit-men sitting by the ocean and reflecting on how their lives turned out.

Their intended victim, Matt, awaits his fate in a burlap sack.

When Al Capone visits in a dream, the outraged and desperate Matt gets dragged into refereeing the hit-men’s argument about the mob’s future.

(3 men.)