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Babes With Blades Theatre Company
Production Dates: August - September 2011
Lincoln Square Theatre
Lincoln Square Arts Center
4754 North Leavitt
Chicago, IL 60625
MOST NOTABLE PLAYS
STRANGERS - originally premiered at Brandeis University in Boston, Chicago premiere was with Jupiter Theater Co at The Athenaeum, published in Smith and Kraus Women Playwrights, The Best Plays of 2001 edited by D. L. Lepidus. This one-act has had 18 productions+.
THIRD PERSON - premiered at the Huntington Studio Theater with Boston Theater Works. Receive recognition from The Boston Herald as one of the top ten plays of the 1993 season.
ROMANCE - companion piece to Strangers, published in Smith and Kraus Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001 edited by D. L. Lepidus. Finalist in the Love Creek Theater Co. Samuel French One-Act contest.
THE VANISHED (Formerly called LOS DESPARECIDOS ~ Set in 16th-century Spain, Los Desaparecidos explores the impact of family ties, societal pressures, and unexpected love on the lives of two sisters: Diana Garcia Diaz and Isabel Garcia Reyes de la Barrera. Expect clandestine trysts, plots and counterplots, blackmail - and dazzling swordplay!
THIRD PERSON - premiered at the Huntington Studio Theater with Boston Theater Works. Receive recognition from The Boston Herald as one of the top ten plays of the 1993 season.
ROMANCE - companion piece to Strangers, published in Smith and Kraus Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001 edited by D. L. Lepidus. Finalist in the Love Creek Theater Co. Samuel French One-Act contest.
THE VANISHED (Formerly called LOS DESPARECIDOS ~ Set in 16th-century Spain, Los Desaparecidos explores the impact of family ties, societal pressures, and unexpected love on the lives of two sisters: Diana Garcia Diaz and Isabel Garcia Reyes de la Barrera. Expect clandestine trysts, plots and counterplots, blackmail - and dazzling swordplay!
Strangers and Romance
STRANGERS
2 Characters: 1M, 1F
Running Time: 35-40 minute
*Published in Smith and Kraus' Women Playwrights, The Best Plays of 2001 edited by D. L. Lepidus. This one-act has had over 18 productions.
A couple meet in a train station to play a game they have played for years. Each time Madison and Maddie come here, they pretend to be a new set of strangers, meeting and attracting each other as if its the very first time. Unfortunately, Madison need to play the game and "get it right" has become obsessive. He uses it as an escape from the pain he feels due to an unspoken loss in their marriage. But no matter how he tries to evade his feelings, reality keeps creeping into their strange fantasy. And Maddie cannot nor will not "get it right" anymore. In the end, Madison must finally face his own guilt and deep sadness over the loss of their child. And when he does, a miraculous change comes about.
ROMANCE
2 Characters: 1M, 1F
Running Time: 35-40 minutes
*Companion piece to Strangers, published in Smith and Kraus' Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001 edited by D. L. Lepidus.
Miriam, a Medieval Literature professor meets Mick, a mail guy in a closed chapel in Boston on Christmas Eve in the middle of the night. Miriam has left her sex-less marriage because she believes her husband is no longer attracted to her and Mick has just been dumped by his fiancé. These two wounded opposites bump heads and philosophize about God and the writers of Bazooka bubble gum fortunes and finally manage to comfort each other. As the night progresses, they help each other uncover their best and most alluring qualities in this old fashion romance.
2 Characters: 1M, 1F
Running Time: 35-40 minute
*Published in Smith and Kraus' Women Playwrights, The Best Plays of 2001 edited by D. L. Lepidus. This one-act has had over 18 productions.
A couple meet in a train station to play a game they have played for years. Each time Madison and Maddie come here, they pretend to be a new set of strangers, meeting and attracting each other as if its the very first time. Unfortunately, Madison need to play the game and "get it right" has become obsessive. He uses it as an escape from the pain he feels due to an unspoken loss in their marriage. But no matter how he tries to evade his feelings, reality keeps creeping into their strange fantasy. And Maddie cannot nor will not "get it right" anymore. In the end, Madison must finally face his own guilt and deep sadness over the loss of their child. And when he does, a miraculous change comes about.
ROMANCE
2 Characters: 1M, 1F
Running Time: 35-40 minutes
*Companion piece to Strangers, published in Smith and Kraus' Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001 edited by D. L. Lepidus.
Miriam, a Medieval Literature professor meets Mick, a mail guy in a closed chapel in Boston on Christmas Eve in the middle of the night. Miriam has left her sex-less marriage because she believes her husband is no longer attracted to her and Mick has just been dumped by his fiancé. These two wounded opposites bump heads and philosophize about God and the writers of Bazooka bubble gum fortunes and finally manage to comfort each other. As the night progresses, they help each other uncover their best and most alluring qualities in this old fashion romance.
THIRD PERSON
THIRD PERSON
10 Characters: 5M, 5W
Running Time: 90-110 minutes
*Received recognition from The Boston Herald as one of the top ten plays of the 1993 season.
Sarah, late 20s, a lonely Harvard medical school student places a personal advertisement. At first none of the men live up to her expectations. But soon she meets Mickey, a Cambridge Tour Guide who plays in a band. Despite Sarah’s obvious attraction to him, she evades Mickey’s romantic advances. And what’s worse is that she has begun to have horrible nightmares that she cannot explain to even her closest friends. In the nightmares, Sarah is haunted by a mysterious woman, not unlike herself, but an older, wiser, more cynical version. As the play unfolds the dreams reflect back on events that happened some time ago. Sarah is unable to put together the meaning of these dreams until she is forced to take care of an older woman, a victim that comes into the emergency room one evening. In caring for this woman, she begins to accept her own tragic experience and begins to heal.
10 Characters: 5M, 5W
Running Time: 90-110 minutes
*Received recognition from The Boston Herald as one of the top ten plays of the 1993 season.
Sarah, late 20s, a lonely Harvard medical school student places a personal advertisement. At first none of the men live up to her expectations. But soon she meets Mickey, a Cambridge Tour Guide who plays in a band. Despite Sarah’s obvious attraction to him, she evades Mickey’s romantic advances. And what’s worse is that she has begun to have horrible nightmares that she cannot explain to even her closest friends. In the nightmares, Sarah is haunted by a mysterious woman, not unlike herself, but an older, wiser, more cynical version. As the play unfolds the dreams reflect back on events that happened some time ago. Sarah is unable to put together the meaning of these dreams until she is forced to take care of an older woman, a victim that comes into the emergency room one evening. In caring for this woman, she begins to accept her own tragic experience and begins to heal.
THE VANISHED
THE VANISHED
12 Characters: 5M, 7F
Running Time: 120 minutes
*Winner of the second annual playwriting competition, Joining Sword & Pen, at Babes With Blades.
Set in 16th-century Spain, The Vanished explores the impact of family ties, societal pressures, and unexpected love on the lives of two sisters: Diana Garcia Diaz and Isabel Garcia Reyes de la Barrera. Expect clandestine trysts, plots and counterplots, blackmail - and dazzling swordplay!
PERSONAL PENCHANTS
PERSONAL PENCHANTS
2 Females
Running Time: 20 minutes
*Produced through Baliwick Theater Company's Second Sex Series, Director Laurie Attea
Lesbian “life-coach” Jackie is impulsive, free-spirited, and looking online for an experienced, uninhibited soul-mate. “Bi-possible lesbian” Louise is a nervous English teacher with a habit of over-analyzing and no “experience” whatsoever. When the two of them finally meet after connecting on-line, their hidden reactions to each other spill out as they fumble their way through this hilarious, unpredictable first date.
Blurb: A couple of single lesbians (opposites) meet through an online dating service and try to navigate through a disastrous and distracting first date.
Production History
Links Hall (2005) Stockyard Theater Fest Sarah Mostad Chicago, IL
Prop Theater (2005) Camenae Ensemble Ali Dornhagen Chicago, IL
Provincetown Inn (2005) Providence PlaySlam Linda Posage Providence Town, MA
Devanaughn Theatre (2005) SlamBoston Deidre Purcell Boston, MA
2 Females
Running Time: 20 minutes
*Produced through Baliwick Theater Company's Second Sex Series, Director Laurie Attea
Lesbian “life-coach” Jackie is impulsive, free-spirited, and looking online for an experienced, uninhibited soul-mate. “Bi-possible lesbian” Louise is a nervous English teacher with a habit of over-analyzing and no “experience” whatsoever. When the two of them finally meet after connecting on-line, their hidden reactions to each other spill out as they fumble their way through this hilarious, unpredictable first date.
Blurb: A couple of single lesbians (opposites) meet through an online dating service and try to navigate through a disastrous and distracting first date.
Production History
Links Hall (2005) Stockyard Theater Fest Sarah Mostad Chicago, IL
Prop Theater (2005) Camenae Ensemble Ali Dornhagen Chicago, IL
Provincetown Inn (2005) Providence PlaySlam Linda Posage Providence Town, MA
Devanaughn Theatre (2005) SlamBoston Deidre Purcell Boston, MA
THE NERDY GIRL & THE INTERGALACTIC DOG
THE NERDY GIRL & THE INTERGALACTIC DOG
***Updated with Music***
Music and Lyrics by John Sparks (Artistic Director of The Theater Building)
Children's; Comedy
8 Characters: 3M, 5F
Running Time: 45 minutes
*First produced through Rascal Children's's Theater At Rogue Theater and Side Project
Being an eleven year old girl is not easy...especially when you're Louise Noble-Bells. Louise is used to a life of world travel with her antique-dealing parents and being schooled at home. Now her parents have decided to settle in Chicago, open a coffee shop, and send Louise to a new school. As if that weren't enough, Louise has been befriended by a dog that has fallen from space. And his presence has given her cat the power of speech...and does she have a lot to say!
Click Here and Watch a Clip from The Nerdy Girl
***Updated with Music***
Music and Lyrics by John Sparks (Artistic Director of The Theater Building)
Children's; Comedy
8 Characters: 3M, 5F
Running Time: 45 minutes
*First produced through Rascal Children's's Theater At Rogue Theater and Side Project
Being an eleven year old girl is not easy...especially when you're Louise Noble-Bells. Louise is used to a life of world travel with her antique-dealing parents and being schooled at home. Now her parents have decided to settle in Chicago, open a coffee shop, and send Louise to a new school. As if that weren't enough, Louise has been befriended by a dog that has fallen from space. And his presence has given her cat the power of speech...and does she have a lot to say!
Click Here and Watch a Clip from The Nerdy Girl
