Season 11: 2004-05
 

September, 2004

MERCURY PLAYERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY PLAYFEST

Week 1 COMEDIA

Chicken in the Henhouse by David Sedaris • Anything for You by Cathy Celesia • Show Business by Jeffrey Hatcher • Oedi by Rich Orloff • The Reprimand by Jane Anderson • Fiat by Joe Pintauro • Siobhan by John Augustine • The Lizzies by Rob Matsushita

Week 2 POLITIK

Throwing Your Voice by Craig Lucas • The Rockpile by Doug Reed • St. Stanislaus Outside the House by Patrick Breene • Under Lubianka Square by Constance Congdon • Sex with the Censor by Theresa Rebeck • Wal-Martopia by Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn

Week 3 PATHOS

Young Man Praying by Karen Hines • A Sermon by David Mamet • Ich Wunsche den Schonon Liebestod by Lisa Konoplisky • Martha Miller by Romulus Linney • Train Story by Adam Rapp • Notes from the Moated Grange by Don Nigro

November, 2004

THE GLORY OF LIVING by Rebecca Gilman

WANTON JOY by George Gonzalez

January, 2005

WE WON’T PAY! WE WON’T PAY! by Dario Fo

HOMELAND by Douglas Holtz

March, 2005

CEMENTVILLE by Jane Martin

May 27 and 28, 2005

BLITZMANIA 6—8 plays in 24 hours

May 26: Drawn titles from names of drinks, plus sound challenge

Super High Farmer Guy by Gary Kriesel (sound: car crash) ● Foreplay on Neutral Ground, or: A Night in Old Mandalay by Karen Saari-Paschke and Sunny Schomaker (sound: pulse monitor) ● Gideon’s Green Dinosaure by Robert Jahrling (sound: merry-go-round) ● Nemesis by Patrick Fernan (sound: cuckoo clock) ● Paradise Café by Ryan Good (sound: church bells) ● Laughing at the Waves by Gwendolyn Quirk (sound: choppy seawash) ● Little, Yellow, Different by Steven Van Haren (sound: helicopter take-off) ● Thug Passion2: Discordia’s Sunshine Death by Rob Matsushita and Morey Burnard (musical) (sound: slide whistle)

May 27: Drawn titles from record album titles, plus sound challenge

Never Mind by George Gonzalez (sound: taps) ● Darkness on the Edge of Town by Matt Cibula (sound: pulsating hum) ● Exile on Main Street by Therese Kattner (sound: native drums) ● Chocolate and Cheese by Doug Reed (sound: lion’s roar) ● Blood Sugar Sex Magik Siamese Dream by Philip Heckman (sound: chicken coop sounds) ● The Hissing of Summer Leaves by Greg Lawless (sound: gong) ● American Idiot by Jamie Niedermeier (sound: electrocution sound) ● Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy by Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn (musical) (sound: S.O.S.)