Fred and Frieda will be performed at the Greenbelt Arts Center on April 15-18, 2010. For information and reservations, call 301-441-8770

An African-American soldier reunites with the Jewish girl he rescued from Ohrdruf concentration camp. Now who's saving whom?

A play that celebrates the transforming power of memory and storytelling, Fred and Frieda has been called "poignant" and "deeply moving".

Read Fred and Frieda (PDF; 55 pages)

90 minutes / 4 characters (2 men, 2 woman) / minimal set

Production History: Readings at Kennedy Center, DC; Highland Beach Town Hall, MD; Mt. Scopus Hadassah, Leisure World, MD; Riderwood Community, MD; Metrostage, VA

A Department of Energy official uncovers a nuclear weapons waste cover-up and ignites a chain reaction of revenge and revelation.

Read Dirty Questions (PDF; 75 pages)

90 minutes / 11 characters / 8 actors required

Production History: Readings at Kennedy Center, DC; Church Street Theater, DC; Winner, Muhlenburg College Art in the Nuclear Age Festival, PA

It's Christmas Eve. Contessa is afraid intruders will invade her tiny apartment. Starman, living on the streets of Washington, D.C, believes he's the crown prince of Galicia. In a downtown park on the coldest night of the year, Contessa and Starman struggle to give each other a future.

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45 minutes / 2 characters (1 man, 1 woman) / unit set

Production History: Source Theatre, DC; World Bank Theatre, DC; Boulder Theater Company, CO

To produce Starman, apply to Dramatic Publishing

When Viola, manager of the Marble Bar Nightclub, is raped after closing, she does what she's always done: tough it out. But the attack unravels all her defenses, dropping her in a Felliniesque hell of courtrooms, crapshoots, and ghosts. Driven to the brink of assasination, Viola must decide s most important, revenge or sanity.

90 minutes / 11 characters / 8 actors required

Production History: Reading at Hyattsville Community Artists Alliance, MD

Every month when Hazel's foster home sends her to Alma's hair salon, Hazel gets more than a shampoo; she gets love. But war breaks out in Egypt and Alma's family must return home. Can Alma convince Hazel s not abandoning her?

10 minutes / 2 characters

Winner, Source Theater 10-Minute Play Competition, DC

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The Big Boss reschedules a Really Big Meeting for the day you thought was the Halloween costume contest. Why didn't anyone tell you the date was changed? Not only that, but as an older woman, for once in your life you've chosen a costume that's literally quite revealing. The results are scandalous. Oops.

20 minutes / 2 Characters

Production History: Source Theater Festival, DC

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When a woman runs for president of this prestigious club, she makes news and trouble.

10 minutes / 4 characters

Production History: Vienna Senior Theater Company, VA

Buy The Memory Club of America in Short Stuff: Ten to Twenty Minute Plays for Mature Actors

To produce The Memory Club of America, apply to Dramatic Publishing

While searching for s will, Matt and Sis discover a s skeleton in a trunk in her basement. A dark comedy.

Read The Fair Baby (PDF; 28 pages)

30 minutes / 2 characters

Production History: Reading at MetroStage, VA

For production information, contact Nicole@NicoleJBurton.com