UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS

October 24- 27, 2013

A modern retelling of the classic myth of Orpheus who descends into the Underworld to retrieve his young bride, Eurydice, from Death’s amorous arms. Told from Eurydice’s point-of-view, the story follows her odyssey through the Underworld as she seeks love, meaning, and rebirth. Visually stunning and poetic, the play mirrors the dreamy and sometimes treacherous landscape of Eurydice’s inner life where she can’t always remember who she is and can’t always recognize the signs along the way. As Eurydice struggles for self-knowledge, we—like the characters—discover the sacrifices that must be made to achieve a deeply meaningful love, and what happens when love is found, but remains illusory and unattainable.

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November 21-24, 2013

Moll, girl genius, who lives with her Mother and Father in “the finest cul-de-sac of a peaceful town”, invents a machine for hearing sounds that cannot be heard. She wins the science fair, and unknowingly lets her heart, and her machine, “The Third Ear”, be stolen by an evil shape-shifting mercenary. In this quirky, thrilling, and hilarious live-performance radio play, Moll teams up with Oliver, the last boy virgin in the 11th grade, and heads off on a life-threatening adventure to rescue her invention and, with “Triple A” commercials included, save sound as we know it. Will Moll’s vibrating ossicle fall into the wrong hands? Will the virgin Oliver be seduced by the dark side? Will life as we know it be destroyed forever? Stay tuned… and tune in, as Kid-Simple weaves the worlds of radio drama, science fiction, film noir, and live-theatre into a modern fable you won’t soon forget!

 

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March 27-30, 2014

 

In a futuristic dystopia where girls may not venture outside their garden walls, two sisters find momentary pleasure in music and poetry--and black-market chewing gum, which is believed to undermine the virtue of traditional girls. When the older sister is discovered having sex with boys along the highway, her family takes steps to curtail her freedom forever. With mounting terror, Gum depicts the consequences of sexual awakening in a fiercely repressive culture where the title candy is contraband and every desire has its price. Mature audiences.

 

May 1-4, 2014

 

An edgy modern award-winning comedy about two lust-filled teenagers in love, Gail and Junior, who are desperately trying to avoid going in the family business—crime! But money is tight, jobs are scarce, and Junior’s dad, an inept crook serving time for—well, stupidity, blackmails him into the family business. The harder the young couple strives to resist the criminal path, the weirder things get— Gail’s best friend try’s prostitution as an experimental line of work, a middle-aged homeless sage-of-odd-sorts attaches himself to Junior and worst of all Junior’s mysterious ‘former earth-mother gone to seed’ Aunt, lures the whole group into a vortex of ever stranger and more bazaar criminal schemes. Lighthearted in its absurdity, yet sweetly tragic at heart, Junior and Gail have the most modest request of life: to be together and stay out of trouble— and isn’t that a simply ridiculous romantic notion in a world of family crime?