The Standards of Decency Project

Blue Coyote Theater Group has challenged nine fearless emerging playwrights to create ten-minute plays that feature at least one of the following: 1) nudity, 2) violence, or 3) blasphemy, in a manner that is fully warranted and justified (that is, that avoids mere gratuitousness or sensationalism), while also intended to offend conventional standards of decency. Vaguely inspired by the FCC regulatory crackdown following Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” at the SuperBowl XXXVIII halftime show, Blue Coyote seeks to spark a discussion with The Standards of Decency Project about the uses and abuses of transgressive performance onstage.