Plays

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Gravediggers

by Neal Alexander Lewis

Sometimes when you try to end your life, you find out that it's only just begun. The Longview Institute is a place where victims of abuse and attempted suicide go to find help. ALICE is a transgender girl and rape victim, RUTH is an escaped sex-slave, SHANNON's a spousal abuse victim, and TIMOTHY is a domestic abuse victim. All have found their way to the Longview Institute where they hope to turn themselves around and recover the lives that abuse drove them to take. In the common room of the Institute, they begin to rediscover themselves and find understanding through the eyes and lives of each other. And for some, they might even find love.

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The Seven-Ten Split
by Neal Alexander Lewis

In order to change the patterns of our lives, it sometimes takes a little bit more than just meeting new people and going new places. Until CASEY met ALEXANDRA, she'd never really stepped beyond the walls of her brother's MMA Gym. Joining ALEX at the Bowling Alley, CASEY begins to see how much of her life is trapped by the lifestyle she's grown up with as she begins confront her own desires for a life beyond it.


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Sunset Finches
by Neal Alexander Lewis

Sunset Finches is the story of how EMILY and JAKE first met. Sort of. Set during two weekends, two weeks apart, EMILY is returning to her home town for a dress fitting, and for the wedding of her sister MARY. Meanwhile, LAURENCE's Best Man JAKE labors as a go-between for bridesmaid ASHLEY and groomsman ANNABEL, an estranged couple who are nonetheless set to stand across the aisle. Before the backdrop of wedding bliss, and the broiling antipathy between ASHLEY and ANNABEL, JAKE and EMILY find meaning and friendship as they struggle to hold the bridal party together.


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To Fleece The Fleece
by Neal Alexander Lewis

Worlds collide when the tired widower and single-parent SAM meets the closed-off and isolated bartender JESSICA in a cafe the afternoon before an art exhibition. Divided by the baggage of the past, even as they are introduced because of it, an unlikely friendship forms that will change how they see the world. And as their paths continue to collide, SAM and JESSICA begin to discover that there might be more important things than the past.


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Airport Sparrows 
by Neal Alexander Lewis

It's a long flight home when home is a place you never wanted to go again. MARC has been working a dead-end life in L.A., when a call from his dying mother summons him home. After clumsily spilling coffee on a couple of flight attendants in the terminal, MARC boards his plane to find one of them, SARAH, servicing his commuter flight home. Amidst the ruins of his old life, and the failing health of his mother, MARC struggles to hold on to the moments of light as he faces of the coming storm.


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The Hummingbird General
by Neal Alexander Lewis

Several years after a life changing injury and the death of his wife, hemiparetic DENNIS is tired of living. The afternoon of his birthday, with his dauther AUTUMN, his old friend JIM, and his young friend NATHAN, DENNIS struggles to find a purpose. By the end of the day, however; DENNIS is not the only one facing a crisis.


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Waiting For Toast
a play in one act
by Neal Alexander Lewis

Nothing ruins a morning like old coffee and burnt toast. Unless, of course, it is the person consuming them. CHARLES DUNLAP is a bitter and jaded old man with a hatred for everybody, and most of all himself, and nothing makes his day better than ruining someone else's. Today, that someone is ALBERT MONROE. In the small common kitchen of Mesa Park West, a community based apartment complex for active seniors, ALBERT is conflicted by his curiosity and his desire to leave before the affrontage offered by CHARLES. Getting older doesn't always mean getting wiser.


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The Other Side of Life
a romantic comedy about death
by Neal Alexander Lewis

FRANCESCA was a mere twenty years old when she died, but she did not stay that way. After a few minutes, FRANCESCA was revived, but by then, it was too late. Life, as she knew it, was irreparably changed. The afterlife, you see, was nothing like anyone had ever conceived of, and she, having been there, found that DEATH was no longer a one-way door. Now twenty-two, FRANCESCA is a Medium, and under the tutelage of AGNUS BELHURST she helps the Living connect with the Dead as a friend, confidante and go-between. Her new life and mission are going well until MANDY DENORY seeks them out looking for solace— and looking for her long-dead son. AGNUS and FRANCESCA use their gifts to find LUCAS in death, and FRANCESCA discovers that true love exists on the other side of life.


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Blurred Lines
a 10 minute scene
by Neal Alexander Lewis

A dying old man and his closest companion have their final conversation, and it isn't the conversation you expect.