STORMS is an evening of five one-act plays moving through longing, absurdity, collapse, and fragile hope, each circling what it means to keep feeling in a world that resists it. From a woman confronting God in the aftermath of heartbreak, to two minds unraveling inside a system of control; from corporate “care” cracking under pressure, to a soul refusing to begin again, to sisters reaching for connection after everything familiar has fallen away. By turns darkly funny and raw, STORMS lingers, asking not just how we endure, but why we choose to.
YOU WHO ACHE: A woman who returns to an empty cathedral at night and comes face to face with God himself. What begins as a desperate plea about heartbreak and emotional suffering becomes a confrontation about love, loneliness, and what it means to feel too deeply in a world that rarely returns that devotion.
CIVIL WAR. BREAKFAST: Miz and Dame, play chess while trapped in a surreal authoritarian system. As their game spirals into psychological warfare, political allegory, and grotesque comedy, the play explores power, ideology, class, and the collapse of reality under repression.
WELLNESS ROOM: Takes place inside a corporate office “wellness room” during a day of mass layoffs. Two employees, an anxious meditation-seeker and an outspoken administrator, clash as panic spreads through the company, forcing both of them to confront burnout, complicity, and the hollow language of corporate care.
NEW BEGINNINGS: Centers on Ann, a woman who dies in a bizarre accident and wakes up in Heaven with her overworked guardian angel, Chloe. Faced with the prospect of choosing her 875th reincarnation, Ann resists the idea of starting over, leading to a funny, existential conversation about purpose, freedom, and whether life is worth living again.
TEENAGE: Follows two sisters reconnecting in their childhood kitchen after a societal collapse linked to technology and internet dependency. As Lisa attempts to help Dani recover from addiction and self-destruction through rigid routines and analog living, their uneasy reunion reveals deep resentment, grief, and the fragile hope of rebuilding human connection.
Alyson Leonard | Ariella Carmell | Abby Grantham | Thomas Simmons | Matthew Fay | Liz Fernandez | Alexandra Scordato | Robert Barnes Jr. | Chloe Milling | Jolene Mafnas | Ysaias Garcia | Rotem Minster | Nathan Dennis | Samantha Leon | Landon Hubbard | Elisabetta Bracer | Aria Martinelli | Vivien Tierney | Isabella Sale | Constance Lake
Mentors: Menahem Haike, Marcel Simoneau & Suzanne Di Donna
Developed at Circle Theater Workshop
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