Day 2 Humana Festival

1:30

STRIKE-SLIP
by Naomi Iizuka
directed by Chay Yew
March 8 - 31
in the Pamela Brown Auditorium

In the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, three diverse families each carry a dream, but a recent shooting creates an unexpected seismic shift that rocks each family's foundation. Faults that were once inactive or dormant suddenly appear and abruptly change the way they think about themselves, their community and their dream.

4:30

dark play or stories for boys
by Carlos Murillo
directed by Michael John Garcés
March 2 - 31
in the Bingham Theatre

A teenage boy’s fictional Internet identity begins as a harmless game. But the game takes on a frightening reality when real emotion overtakes his online relationship. When Nick’s virtual world online collides with the real one, his fantasies of love, intimacy, obsession and betrayal spiral into consequences that lead him to the brink of death.

9:00

10-min Plays
Clarisse and Larmon by Deb Margolin
A middle-aged couple receives a visit from an anonymous soldier bearing the news of their son’s death and a photograph of his leg. A searing look at the nature of language and truth, and what happens to the value of bodies in the face of war.

Mr. and Mrs. by Julie Marie Myatt
Once newlyweds learn who they are, are they sure that they "do?"

I am not Batman. by Marco Ramirez
A streetwise kid with a stomach full of grocery store brand mac-and-cheese lives out his Batman fantasy. Accompanied by live drums, crashes, bangs, and justice.