A Voluminous Evening of Brevity

Directed by: Justin Plowman

A VOLUMINOUS EVENING OF BREVITY is an evening of short plays both comic and tragic dating to the beginning of the 20th Century. Dysfunctional Theatre Classics’ mission is to produce underperformed scripts from the previous centuries or to give a new take on classic plays of past centuries. All of these works are still considered Dysfunctional; the idea is to encourage the audience to perceive them in a new light and to realize that dysfunction isn’t a product of 21st or even 20th century life; it’s a product of the human condition.
A VOLUMINOUS EVENING OF BREVITY is an evening of short plays both comic and tragic dating to the beginning of the 20th Century. Dysfunctional Theatre Classics’ mission is to produce underperformed scripts from the previous centuries or to give a new take on “classic” plays of past centuries. All of these works are still considered Dysfunctional; the idea is to encourage the audience to perceive them in a new light and to realize that dysfunction isn’t a product of 21st or even 20th century life; it’s a product of the human condition.

Porcelain & Pink
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Directed by Justin Plowman

Beautiful girls, mistaken identities and hijinks centering around a very long bath.

Purgatory
Written by WB Yeats
Directed by Peter Schuyler

A troubled father and his son return to the barren site of the father's youth.

Two Slatterns and a King
Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Directed by Rob Brown

A storybook king sets out to marry the tidiest woman in the land.

Trifles
Written by Susan Glaspell
Directed by Amy Overman

In a quiet, desolate farmhouse, someone murdered John Wright as he slept.That someone might have been his wife. Buy why?

DYSFUNCTIONAL THEATRE COMPANY. Founded in 1997 Dysfunctional is dedicated to challenging the status quo without taking itself too seriously. Recent production include The 8: Reindeer Monologues, Arsenic & Old Lace, The Dysfunctional Guide to Home Perfection Marital Bliss & Passionate Hot Romance (winner of the FRIGID 2009 Audience Choice & Sold Out Show Awards), Brew of the Dead (by Patrick Storck) Chosen (written & directed by Rick Vorndran; winner of the 2008 FRIGID Sold Out Show Award), and Hoover: A Love Story (by Paul Wells)