Avalanche Theatre's Next Draft Series is back with two exciting new plays by Chicago playwrights: How to Kill a Rodent by Eleanor McCaughey, directed by Maddy Brown; and Infinity Burns by Felix Abidor, directed by Alex Mallory. In How to Kill a Rodent, Canadians Guy and Carrie take a road trip to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in an effort to commit a minor act of terrorism against the United States: assassinate Punxsutawney Phil, that magical prognosticating groundhog, on live television. In Infinity Burns, it is the year 1599 and the monk Giordano Bruno is about to be burned at the stake. His crime: believing that the universe is infinitely large. He has seven days to convince the inquisition that he is right, or recant his views. Set in the dungeons of the inquisition and in the vastness of Bruno's own imagination, Infinity Burns explores what it takes to live in connection with our internal truth, and when to let it go.