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Full Length DramaCharacters: 2 male 2 female Int.The Frau used to direct beautiful films for a fascist government. Now she's trying to make a film that's simply beautiful. The Frau casts herself in the lead role of the Amazon queen Penthesilea who falls in love with Achilles on the battlefield of the Trojan War. She recruits a man from the Jewish ghetto to play her Achilles. Her own sister a long-suffering extra plays all the nameless Amazons killed in the background. With

Dramatic Comedy CharacterS: 2 male, 2 female Multiple Sets Katha and Ryu have become allergic to their 21st-century lives. After they meet a charismatic man from a community of 1950s re-enactors, they forsake cell phones and sushi for cigarettes and Tupperware parties. In this compulsively authentic world, Katha and Ryu are surprised by what their new neighbors - and they themselves - are willing to sacrifice for happiness. "Piquantly funny, cleverly executed and darkly playful." - The New York Times "Jordan Harrison's Maple and Vine does everything a good play should do. It entertains. It makes you think...1950's conformity may not differ much from 2011's, but at least we have our conveniences. Harrison makes you weigh the costs and benefits of both eras without hitting you over the head with his own conclusion. You will enjoy reaching your own." - Theatre Louisville

Winner! 2011 Barrymore Awards Best Production of a Musical and Best Leading Actor in a MusicalOfficial Selection! The Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices FestivalA young professor loses just about everything in the world - everything that is except for the flea who lives in his vest. Starting over again the professor and the flea become the best of friends start a circus act and set off to tour the world. Together they must overcome shipwrecks cannibals a

2015 Pulitzer Prize FinalistIt's the age of artificial intelligence and eighty-five-year-old Marjorie -a jumble of disparate fading memories - has a handsome new companion who's programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember and what would we forget if given the chance? In this richly spare wondrous new play Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits - if any - of what technolog

Ten-year-old Kai is given a magical crystal doorknob by his grandfather that enables him to travel through space and time to see future events in his life. The further along he goes the less he feels like he's seeing into his future but more that he is living life as most people do; all too quickly. Both poignantly sad and zany Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison expands on the notion that life is too short to miss any moment of it.

An intrepid troupe of pageant players races across medieval Europe struggling to outrun the Black Death. The arrival of a mysterious outsider sends Hollis the leading lady in search of answers that can only be found off-script... and soon the 14th century plague begins to look like another more recent one. This wildly inventive and funny new work examines the evolution of human creativity in a dark age: when does a crisis destroy us and when does it open new frontiers?

It's a faraway age of hope and inclusivity; in other words it's 2015. When a tight-knit circle of married gays and lesbians comfy in the new mainstream see themselves through the eyes of their rakish transgender pal it's clear that the march toward progress is anything but unified. With stinging satire and acute compassion Jordan Harrison's pointed comedy charts the breakdown of empathy that happens when we think our rights are secure revealing conservative hearts where you'd least expect.

At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are fiercely committed to bringing a lost civilization to life again: What were humans really like? What did they wear, what did they eat, how did they die out? By casting us into the far future, Jordan Harrison's new play gives us an uncanny view of the present moment, as we straddle the analog world that was and the post-human world to come.

Known for his ability to turn an unusual premise into something profound and sublime, Jordan Harrison is one of our most inventive and thought-provoking contemporary playwrights. His work grapples with the fleeting nature of time, the fallibility of memory, the volatility of identity, and our often fraught relationships with technology. This new collection gathers together several of his plays, including the title play, Maple and Vine, which follows a couple who decides to forgo their urban lives in favor of recreating the "simpler" lifestyle of the 1950s, trading cell phones for Tupperware parties in a newfound quest for happiness. This volume also contains the plays The Amateurs, Amazons and Their Men, and Doris to Darlene.