The Investment is a serio-farce or farce with an edge, set in the 50's, about three small-time business presidents who plan to make an illegal investment that will make them quite wealthy. Ajax Atwell, president of Atwell Industries, and Randolph Hubert, President of Ticonderoga Tool & Dye, have serious reservations about the investment, whereas Hubert Kendra, President of Kendra Manufacturers, is the self-assured, dominating instigator. As the "plot" develops, we can see that the burden of the investment, which never proceeds past the initial "talk stage," takes its toll on these men and...

Joe Dick, P.I. is a serio-comedy about a hard drinking, nightmare-prone private investigator with a foul-tempered secretary (Lucinda Rosenthal) and a manic, medicated associate (Frank Funk) who are visited by a mysterious, seductive woman (Woman) who wishes to procure Dick's (and only Dick's) services: she wants him to watch her husband kill her. At first, Dick doesn't believe her, but when she offers him $10,000 for the job, he decides to "hear her out." When strange things start happening, like the Woman showing Dick an advertisement in the Yellow Pages for his agency (something he never...

Hale is a graduate student with a penchant for casual sex in public places. He meets his match in Boz, a graduate student with a moral core and an inexplicable attraction to strange people. Hale, a relative stranger to Boz, meets her in the university library and predicts that he and Boz will have casual sex, and this initiates a cat-and-mouse dialogue as well as a cat-and-mouse relationship between the two. Boz has a friend, Zoe, who has a bit of a history of casual sex herself, but Zoe sees Boz as possibly going down a dangerous path with the likes of Hale. Hale has a friend, Luc, who sees...

Emotional Investment: Transforming Psychotherapeutic Assumptions argues that most current psychotherapies tend to be objective or quasi-objective in their orientation, where "objective" means that mental health and mental illness are assumed to be objective realities that clinicians can access and impart to patients or clients and that patients or clients can learn (e.g. psychoanalysis, ego psychology, self psychology, behaviorism) and quasi-objective means that though lip service is given to relative realities, the actual assumptions are objective (e.g. cognitive therapy, reality therapy)....

Crime, Criminals and Comedy presents three of G. Michael Blahnik's hilarious plays in one package. In The Investment, three small-time company presidents plot to make an illegal investment only to have their plans disintegrate before they even get started. In Head and Hands (based on a true story that occurred in the 30's), Flora Miller is implicated in the gruesome murder of her brother, a retired fire captain. It is Fargo meets Psycho at a swing fest. In Dead Cowboys, the Kleckner family self-destructs in this hilarious comedy about the resiliency of the American middle-class family.

Three plays by G. Michael Blahnik are collected into a single package. In What God Has Joined, three blood-related couples manifest the contemporary condition of the institution of marriage in a way that is at the same time deep and moving and farcical and hilarious. In A Woman of Means, a modern-day tragedy, a young man who has always desired to marry "a woman of means" realizes that his youthful ambitions have not worked out as planned...not even close. In Solitary God, Eva Schmidt, a young divorcee living alone in her apartment, "evolves" in a sad and yet hilarious way right before our...

THE WORLD OF MEN offers three plays by G. Michael Blahnik in one package. THE 2OTH QUARTER-ANNUAL HORSE CONTEST concerns the emotional growth of two long-time friends who meet annually to play a game of basketball that is more like a creative bonding ritual than a competitive game. This particular game serves to be a turning point in the lives of each of the men as they try to confront parents, wives, and their past glory days in order to gain some direction in life. NO TOMORROW addresses the issue of lying in male/female relationships with all the intensity of a hurricane. Three friends, two...

Henrik Ibsen is having trouble writing this play. Some of his characters fear him, some ignore him, and some want to overthrow him. His Norwegian middle-class family is so riddled with hidden agendas that he doesn't know what to do with them. He wishes to hire a ghost writer to get him out of this mess.