2008 Carlotta Festival of New Plays

Carlotta Festival 2009
The Shows

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THE FRENCH PLAY

By Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco
Directed by Patricia McGregor

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In the wake of an unsolved murder, a resentful ghost demands retribution when his widow takes a most inappropriate lover. Meanwhile, the heir to the estate has taken up with one of the maids (though he can’t always remember which one) and a second killing is in the works. Will things on the DesChamps estate right themselves? Or will this family's illicit desires cause their world to come crashing down?

 

 

THE BEDTRICK

By Matt Moses
Directed by Erik Pearson

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Four lives are changed forever when one woman trades love for violence, shattering one family and inadvertently forming another.  The Bedtrick is a story of love, sex, vengeance—and a woman's desire to control her own destiny.

 

 

AMERICAN CATNIP

By Mattie Brickman
Directed by Becca Wolff

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Things get a little nasty when two women, Nicky and Cassie, reunite at the Romp 'n' Roller Rink to celebrate a daughter's birthday. Fifteen years of unresolved issues are served up with ice cream, slap bracelets, and glucose tablets. In this cat-eat-cat dark comedy, two women grasp at life, liberty, and the pursuit of property – on roller skates. You're invited to the party. Bring gifts! And Neosporin.