Plays
At Princeton's Firestone library, former actress, Marta Abba, 86 reluctantly donates hundreds of letters written to her by Pirandello, and vividly recalls people from the past and scenes from their tempestuous relationship when she had been his Muse.
In 1797, when Quaker schoolmaster Alcuin debates with Mrs. Carter, a widow, about the status of women and women’s right to vote, sparks fly, but soon friendship and romance are in the air. Based on the book by Charles Brockden Brown.
Arriving in a small Italian city, Giovanni encounters a Commedia troupe and falls in love with Colombina. When her overprotective father and siblings decide to ‘audition’ him, they send him to what they claim is a haunted castle but soon they realize their joke has gone too far. A romantic comedy with ghosts, one fake and one very real!
Adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Women of Greece unite in a sex stike to force their men to make peace.
University of Michigan, 1991
Lysistrata Project - Global Peace Initiative:2003
Numerous readings & full productions 2003-2021
Renaissance comedy. A young man disguises himself as his long-lost twin sister so he can sleep with a married woman whose husband falls in love with "her." Meanwhile, his sister, who dresses as a boy, runs away when she finds out her employer insists that "he" marry his daughter. The granddaddy of all screwball comedies!
Renaissance comedy. A young man arrives in Venice, falls in love with a young woman he sees from afar, but before he can sleep with her, he is seduced by her next door neighbor.