A Long Christmas Dinner

The Long Christmas Dinner dramatizes the lives of eleven members and four generations of the Bayard family over a ninety-year span of family Christmas dinners in the Bayard house. The first Christmas dinner is given Roderick and Lucia Bayard, who have recently purchased the house and who invite Roderick's mother to celebrate the holiday with them. As the holiday tradition continues, Cousin Brandon, a heavy drinker, joins the group, Mother Bayard dies, Roderick prospers, and Roderick and Lucia have a son Charles and a daughter, Genevieve, named for Mother Bayard. Over a series of briefly dramatized dinners, the children enter their lives and grow up. Times change a bit. Roderick becomes sick, eventually dying from a drinking problem. Genevieve goes abroad to study music. Charles marries Leonora; the two of them have three children: the twins, Lucia and Samuel, as well as another son, Roderick. Samuel is killed in WWI, Lucia and Roderick leave town to seek their fortunes, and an elderly cousin, Ermengarde joins the Christmas table. The last dinner finds Ermengarde alone. She is reading a letter from Leonora, herself now an aging matriarch, preparing to go to the first Christmas dinner at the new home of her married children, who now expecting their first child. Thus, one family cycle is completed, and another one begins. At a different house.

Porchlight 

The play spans one day in April on the backporch and yard of a Southern woman's house.  She has arranged a family reunion which brings the women of her family together for a time of sharing, fighting, eating, Elvis Gospel, Jimi Hendrix and dark family secrets.  Themes of forgiveness, family debts, and dealing with the past.  Christian spine, but no preachin'..

Paper Wings

4 of the 7 Deadly Sins

Nativity on the Square

The figures of a public nativity scene come to life on Christmas Eve and attempt to discover who they are.  A drunken bag lady explains the Nativity to them in a manner that is both comic and deeply moving.

The Case of the Missing Bodies

Take the story of the apostle Peter's escape from jail; put it into the language and action of a 1940's Humphrey Bogart detective movie; and you have 45 minutes of comedy with a message.

Foolish Wiseman

This is the story of Ogion, the comical, little-known fourth wiseman.  Afraid of the dark, our befuddled hero has little chance of following the Bethlehem star until he runs into two thieves who believe it would be profitable to assist this foolish (yet wealthy) man. However, what they find at journey’s end is a treasure more wonderful than they could conceive.