PL Radio Playwrights Local

The Ghost Ship Hunter
Written by Christopher Johnston
Directed by Rachel Zake
Featuring Robert Hawkes, Benjamin Gregg, & Erin K. Moran

Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/ghost-ship-hunter/.

The year is 2078. Dr. Candace Wheatstone and her partner, Frank Drake, V, use time travel to find clues to treat diseases that emerged during the era of global climate change and COVID. However, using time travel also to find evidence of ancient ghost ship stories has become Frank’s hobby, often getting him into trouble. That leads to this journey back to the Arctic Ocean in the 1770s, when Frank gets blown off a ghost ship in an ice storm. Candace and her father Alexander, a distinguished forensic astrophysicist, must figure out what really froze the old pirates in place -- including one running down a corridor -- before a whaling ship found their three-masted schooner off the coast of Greenland.

Love and Ecstasy
Written by Gail Nyoka
Directed by Terrence Spivey
Featuring Jeannine Gaskin, Christina Johnson, Jill Kenderes, and Sharron McPherson-Foxx

Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/love-and-ecstasy/.

From Ireland to Barbados, to Trinidad and to England, trauma passes through five generations of women. Each one denies her truth at her own cost and suffers in her own way. Each searches for love. The narrator has reached a crisis. Like her great-great grandmother, she is a seer. It is at this point of crisis that the narrator discovers her hidden abilities. Is she descending into madness? Do her ancestors have anything to teach her? And is she able to listen?

Things Needing Explanation​
Written by Julia Fisher
Directed by Anne McEvoy
Featuring Dominique L. Gardner, Nadia Salett, Amy Schwabauer, and Lisa L Wiley

Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/things-needing-explanation/.

Jacklean is driving her whip-smart teenage granddaughter Georgia to her house for the weekend when they decide to play Things Needing Explanation - a game from Georgia’s childhood where the two try to outsmart each other with made-up crime scenes. But when an invented crime begins to have eerie parallels to the real world, Georgia and Jacklean must unite their love of murder mysteries and each other to solve the case and save their family.

The Portraits
Written by Tom Hayes
Directed by Brian Zoldessy
Featuring John Busser and Lindsey Mitchell

Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/portraits/.

After attending the funeral of their father, two adult siblings are stranded in a remote area next to their family plot. With a storm threatening and strange sounds coming from the nearby forest, 40-ish Ben and his younger sister Sam are forced to leave the plot on foot. As they walk, the two re-hash events of the past. They both air their grievances until the strange sounds begin to take physical form, forcing them into an abandoned house. Strangely, the house is not entirely empty and not entirely unfamiliar. There, they discover a truth they did not know, and come to terms with their shared history.

Heirloom
Written & performed by Mike Geither

Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/heirloom/.

Heirloom is a non-­fiction solo performance about four generations of my extended maternal family that’s based on interviews and historical records. Beginning with my mother and her siblings, and moving on to her father and grandfather’s lives, it examines the social and emotional inheritance of an extended family affected by incest, alcoholism, violence and genocide. It attempts to shed understanding on how any single person may affect the generation of family members that follow him or her and to glean a greater understanding of the dynamics of incest and rape.

Family Markers
Written by Faye Sholiton
Directed by Fred Sternfeld
Featuring Mary Alice Beck and John Busser

Produced by Playwrights Local with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/family-markers/.

On a June day in 1960, a still-grieving brother and sister made a horrifying discovery. Just days after their brother's burial, someone had exhumed his body and moved it, with no forwarding address. Exactly 50 years later, two adult strangers with the same last name run into each other at the family plot. They will attempt to sort out what might have gone wrong while everybody was above ground. And whether this brand of mishegas is hereditary.