A disillusioned young woman traveling with her hippie mother's ashes. A disillusioned TV star hitch-hiking across America. A Russian dissident turned motel owner. A lovesick farmer and a kidnapped beauty queen. Conjoined twins escaping a cult once led by a dead Senator reincarnated as a real-estate developer. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TULSA LOVECHILD is a freeway fantasia about love and hope. "Aside from some beautiful dialogue and a delightfully optimistic spirit, the greatest strength of this play is that its characters confound all stereotypes. Most plays about misfits in motels go for easy...

Darwin and Jo Smith, and their seventeen-year-old son, Ronnie, seem to be the typical Middle American conservative family. Darwin works as a systems analyst. Jo teaches community college. Ronnie is a high school baseball standout with big league aspirations. One night before dinner, they are paid a surprise visit from Commander Abraham Lincoln of Central Security, who claims to have information concerning their daughter, Lucy, an American soldier. Lincoln claims that Lucy was captured by the enemy in a foreign war and decapitated. But, thanks to the top-secret Operation Hydra, military...

This collection includes 11 comedic short plays: AT THE INTERSECTION OF AGE AND RAGE, THE BASTARD CHILD OF EVEL KNIEVEL, BUFFALO ROAM, EXTREME CUSTOMER SERVICE, FISH BABY DREAMING, THE LEPER VALLEY CONDO ASSOCIATION, PABLO PICASSO TEACHES HIGH SCHOOL, PASTIME, POETS ANONYMOUS, THE ROAD IS AN ASPHALT HOSTESS, and WHITE TRASH BINGO. AT THE INTERSECTION OF AGE AND RAGE: Angry youth meets pedantic elder at stoplight. Mutual understanding does not ensue. THE BASTARD CHILD OF EVEL KNIEVEL: A young girl and her mother watch Evel Knievel fail to jump Snake River Canyon while her dad leaves them both...