…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi
by Marcus Gardley
Nov. 30 & Dec. 1 - 8pm
Free Admission

And Jesus moonwalks the Mississippi is poetic retelling of the Demeter myth set during the civil war and narrated by the Mississippi River. Having run away from a plantation in North Carolina, Demeter travels South in search of her daughter Po'em. En route, she is almost murdered and receives a mission from God to free the children of the middle passage in three days. Hell-bent on finding her daughter instead, Demeter arrives on a plantation in the rich fertile landscape of Louisiana, (a modern day Elysian field) where her daughter was a nursemaid. Although her child is not there, what Demeter finds changes her course entirely. In this epic bricolage, myth, spirituality, gods and mortals are all woven together to examine the complex and profound fabric that is the American quilt.

Trojan Barbie
by Christine Evans
Dec. 7 & 8 - 8pm
Free Admission

Trojan Barbie is a car-crash encounter with Euripides' Trojan Women. Past and present violently collide as the dreams of women and their fierce hunger for life are played out in the larger context of war. Lotte, a modern-day English tourist who repairs dolls, is on a Cultural Tour for Singles in Troy when she is captured by American soldiers and flung back into the ancient camp of the Trojan Women. Cassandra dreams of horses and revenge; Hecuba dreams of her murdered children; Helen dreams up a garden party fit for Hollywood. But as the bodies pile up, Lotte just wants to get home safely. When the camp is torched and the Trojan women enslaved, the British Embassy rescues Lotte. Her life returns to normal - until Hecuba claws her way up through the centuries in search of her murdered children's bodies.

Lighthouse
by Brad Chequer
Dec. 14 & 15 - 8pm
Free Admission

With Beckett-like simplicity and insight, this is the story of three women who each have a complex relationship with the same man. How they are connected to one another is a mystery that slowly reveals itself.