About This Show
Axis Company presents its second annual series of fully produced short plays and videos by emerging writers and directors with Axis Company: Shorter Works. The first cycle runs from March 14 to March 30, and the second from April 4 to April 20.
Cycle One:
630PCPBMF – written and directed by Randy Sharp, this play documents Robert Oppenheimer’s 1963 CerebraPremort Brain map.
I Was a Brain Sucking Zombie – the living dead terrorize a pair of sequestered surbanities in this horror comedy, written by John DeVore and directed by Ami Armstrong.
Loading – a technoprobe struggles in a futuristic world encroached on by technological advancement in this play written and directed by David Balutanski.
Life of Steve – highlights from the cartoon video series by Dan Killeen, with new work by Ethan Crenson and Amanda Alic.
Cycle Two:
The Amazing Amazing World of Madame Curie – Randy Sharp’s short musical concerns Madame Curie’s convalescence from kidney disease in the seaside home of a friend.
Suicide Sam – written by Maurice Chauvet and directed by Seamus McNally, this play focuses on an advertising agency director hired to market an in-home suicide machine and the depressed young man beta-testing the unit.
Video – selections from the Jonathan Grossmelerman video series by Guy Richards Smit.