One - Act Plays/ Other
The Joneses by Corey Ranson
4 F, 6 M
We are in a coastal town in South Texas, hurricane bob is about to come crashing into the small area as a Category 5. Ralph and Sandra Jones are not home. They have evacuated and left to go further inland. Elmer and Sissy, who have lived together for 20 years, have arrived at the house to stay and weather the storm. Elmer works as the gardener and handyman around the place for the Jones’. They did not have the money to leave town, so Elmer thought it would be a good idea to just hold up at the Joneses, which the Joneses are not aware of. Then company shows up, but between the broken friendships, infidelity, two insane dogs and too much beer, more damage has been done than any hurricane could cause.
Reminders from God by Corey Ranson
1 F, 3 M
It is the year 2000. Frank, a German Nazi Officer, who has come out of a 56-year experimental coma after having a car accident traveling back to Berlin for a week of liberty from his duties as a lieutenant on the Battlefields in Europe against the Allied forces. His wife, who has since died, made a secret deal to have this experiment done on him to help him survive. The experiment is a cryo-freezing therapy, that allows the subject to be frozen while it receives supplements, food, so that the brain can have the time to heal from injury. He is 80 and his daughter Emily and son Seth are there when he finally awakes. They haven’t seen him since they were young children. Even his doctors’ have passed. Dr. Erickson, who is working with him now, has been a part of this for a short time and is also still learning about what these doctors were doing and why. Emily and Seth, try to figure things out from what mom wanted and to discover, what it was that Frank (Dad) truly knew.
Christmas Presents, Dan
by Corey Ranson
2 F, 4 M
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In a backstabbing corporate world, an eager businessman named Dan who works for a large corporation is trying to claw his way up. In doing so, he starts to make decisions that continue to isolate him from others. It is from a visit of a special person not yet in his life that helps him to see the error of his ways, as we see Dan grow through the years through the events of every Christmas office party of his life; even though we learn that some of those events may not have actually occurred. Maybe this means Dan could change?
End by Corey Ranson
2 M - (10 minute)
Tom has decided that ending his life is the only alternative left, since he has tried everything battling his terminal illness. He has gone to Zurich, which is the only place he knows he can get assistance with this matter, in the most legal way. He is completely prepared and has, in detail, gone through this with his family and himself. As the moment takes place, there is no turning back. Really.
Las Cartas (The Letters)
by Corey Ranson
researchers: Betsy Wallek, Michelle Flores, Christian Acevedo
This play follows the history and the involvement in a theatrical way of Hispanic Women and their contribution to the Home front and their lives leading up to that, during and before WW2.
