Rogue Theater Festival is so excited to continue streaming theater that has been created all over the world straight to patrons living rooms. This year, we offer shows of all lengths to be streamed, so get ready to cuddle up for some amazing nights of theater.
HELTER SHELTER
By: Phil Way
Streaming On Demand
June 5th-June 18th
Two sisters, Maddie and Jessica, are forced to quarantine together under the care of their nephew, Jason, during an apocalyptic disaster. Their personalities clash in humorous ways at first. But as Jessica begins to go crazy, things take a tragic turn into darkness in HELTER SHELTER.
LOVE'S A THIN DIET
By: Amy Losi
Streaming On Demand
June 5th-18th
A college student, an older professor, a small private office, a bottle of wine, and unexpected games blur the line between seduction and consent…
Aphra publishes an article detrimental to her ex-husband Oliver and he confronts her about it. Did Oliver do something to help Aphra or did he take advantage of her, as she asserts in her article? The story of their relationship provides the backdrop for this play about sexual harassment and the dynamics of power, control, choice, and revenge.
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OCEAN IN A TEACUP
By: Joel Krantz
Streaming On Demand
June 5th-June 18th
The War may be over, but Red Cross Medic Ray Hauserman cannot bring himself to return home from India to the
woman he loves, waiting anxiously in Ohio. His betrayal of his pacifist vow “never to kill” has left him a
broken man. Down and out in the dive bars of Calcutta, Ray meets an Indian doctor and spiritual teacher who offers
him a path to redemption through service to the poor and hungry of post war Bengal. But to walk that path, Ray will have to leave behind everything he knows and loves.
SCENES FROM THE LIVES OF TWINS
By: Larry Rinkel
Streaming On Demand
June 5th-June 18th
Following the suicide of her artist husband after a gallery cancelled his show without explanation or notice, Valerie Jahnke is left to bring up her infant twins Nathan and Adrian. Fearful they might inherit Simon's depressive nature, Valerie forbids the twins from pursuing artist careers. She convinces Nathan's mentor to reject the young man from further musical study, and as a result Nathan destroys all his compositions. But she fails to stop Adrian from attempting a living as an artist, and he lives for a while in poverty and squalor. Eventually Nathan makes a successful living as a real-estate broker, while Adrian creates holiday greeting cards. At Valerie's death her will reveals that she made her apparently harsh decisions solely to protect her sons from despair.
SUNSHINE IN EVERY WINDOW
By: Rex McGregor
Streaming On Demand
June 5th-June 18th
New York, 1934. Crusading city planner Mary Simkhovitch makes a difficult ally for Fiorello La Guardia and Eleanor Roosevelt. The mayor and First Lady just want to build the first public housing in America; Mary demands it live up to America's ideals.
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THE GARDEN
By: Hannah Bakke and Maxwell Emmett Ward
Streaming On Demand
June 5th-June 18th
With their precious garden hurtling towards decay ever since “the bite”, 3 artists put the inhabitants of their creation on trial to figure out what really happened beneath that apple tree. Alternating between the perspectives of Adam, Eve, and Luc(ifer), The Garden reimagines Eve’s first days as a celebration of curiosity and ambition.
THREE COMEDIES
By: John Tierney
Streaming On Demand
June 5th-18th
I: PROCEED TO THE ROUTE
Millions of people have come to depend on personal digital assistants like “Cortana,” “Alexa,”
and, of course, the ubiquitous “SIRI.” GPS positioning is an astounding technical achievement
and SIRI will usually get you where you want to go...but not always. This short play focuses on a
series of miscommunications between Harvey Paterson, a lawyer just trying to get across town
and his very “personal” digital assistant.
II: COKE? I DON’T LIKE COKE!
An elderly woman with a hearing impairment is admitted to the cardiac ward of a major urban
hospital. She is interviewed by a nurse who struggles to be heard. It seems that the woman has
forgotten her hearing-aids. The result is a series of misunderstandings as the increasingly
frustrated nurse tries to remain calm and kind to the woman.
III: BETTY, THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY FAIRY
George Patterson, The Passenger, is a middle-aged lawyer taking the Staten Island Ferry to work
in Manhattan as he does every day. Today will be an unusual day for George, he will meet Betty,
an otherwise normal-looking person who happens to believe that she is a fairy. George and
Betty strike up a conversation with Betty trying to convince George that she is a real fairy and
George trying to convince Betty that she is not. When Betty reveals knowledge about George
that she could not know, George begins to question his sanity, but wait...turns out there is a
logical explanation...or is there?
WILBER'S NEW WIFE
By: Coni Koepfinger
Streaming On Demand
June 5th-18th
This year's Rogue Theater Festival includes Coni Koepfinger's Wilber's New Wife. A play about a forlorn playwright who becomes jealous of his personal assistant, Goldie. She's a hot-off-the press AI prototype, sent to be his personal assistant, but suddenly she becomes the star of the show. A little autobiographical, as Coni had similar feelings while using chatGBT in the script, Wilber's New Wife examines our relationship with technology- which in the end, is ultimately up to us.... or so we think! The brilliant poster was also designed by an AI.