Day 42 of The Year Apart (And Sometimes Not)

Today's Challenge:

Come up with 3 play titles. Write a 1-3 sentence synopsis of each play.

Davis' Play Titles:

Benign Eccentricities

In a small town in Alabama, just outside of Birmingham, a young man puts on a dress and wears it to school. The town loves this kid — he’s the mayor’s son, after all — and though his behavior was unique and unlike any other, the embraced him. Until, of course, he falls in love with the sheriff’s daughter.

To Live is To Love and To Die

In the late 1960s, a young Midwestern man runs off to follow an Indian guru off the shores of Encinitas, CA, leaving his family behind. A decade later, after his father is diagnosed with lung cancer, he returns to his home, hoping to teach his family the ways of his guru, only to learn the lessons of his own family’s lineage and wisdom in its place.

Bloom

A young girl stops speaking at the age of 5 after witnessing the tragic death of her father. Her mother, distraught that her daughter no longer communicates verbally and also with her own inner storm of emotions, brings home a single flower to plant in the backyard. The girl, older now and drawn to the flower, begins to sing to it; her mother notices and, together, the two rebuild their lives in the garden.

Charles' Play Titles:

Cripple Creek

After their father’s sudden death, Trent and Josiah are going through his belongings in the home he left behind. Memories of listening to vinyl records of The Band, playing “cowboys,” and the smell of his menthol cigarettes cause them to reflect on a strong and colorful relationship with their father. But one solitary handwritten letter causes the boys to confront a mysterious and well-kept secret that will change the way they look at their father forever.

Rubber

Three strangers are on a Craigslist rideshare from Omaha, Nebraska to Flagstaff, Arizona and decide to share a room at a motel together to save money. Vijay is a 21-year-old first-generation Indian-American man; Darlene is a 43-year-old former postal employee, recently divorced and is the driver; Elmer looks to be at least 50 and hasn’t said much. None of them knew they wouldn’t sleep a wink.

Igbala

The four women of Igbala know they are participating in a controlled social experiment. Their task: to use role-playing as a method of constructing a society that reflects the values of a matriarchal system. But the process begins to unveil deep-seeded beliefs and principles that threaten to dismantle their efforts to achieve empowered liberated womanhood.