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THE ART OF DISAPPEARING
THE ART OF DISAPPEARING
THE ART OF DISAPPEARING
When Melissa receives a mysterious invitation to brunch from her mother after a two-year estrangement, she returns to a home where nothing is as it seems. Fathers lie, friends leave and she herself is failing in the artist’s world she covets- as her mother practices the art of disappearing before her very eyes. The devastating truth she discovers in her parents’ house threatens to tear all of them apart for good. Will Melissa stay and fight for her family? Or will she disappear too?
"Walker’s play is full of surprises. And it is rooted in the kind of harrowing truths few people want to confront." - Chicago Sun-Times
Primus Prize 2016 Finalist
O'Neill 2013 Semi-Finalist
Princess Grace Award 2008 Finalist
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FRIENDS WITH GUNS
THE ART OF DISAPPEARING
THE ART OF DISAPPEARING
You think you know your friends, your neighbors, your spouse, but what happens when you suddenly find out they have a garage full of guns? This new dark comedy explores the complicated issue of gun proliferation when two young liberal couples are forced to confront their assumptions about who should own a gun and why. The time of easy answers regarding this issue is long gone. In the wake of current events, we are all forced to reexamine our strongly held beliefs about gun ownership. Friends With Guns explores the question of what we can compartmentalize…and what we can’t. It examines what happens when guns enter the conversation. It pulls the curtain back on liberals with guns. It asks what happens when suddenly one person in a marriage does a 180 on the gun issue. And it does all of this through a female lens.
“Friends With Guns” is a subtle, savage feminist parable — a cautionary tale of the peril that may await women who dare to venture outside their accepted roles. The terror here is a monster who’s so innocuous, appealing and just plain likable — until he’s not." - Los Angeles Times
Winner Best New Play- Valley Theater Awards 2019
O'Neill Finalist 2018
Bay Area Playwrights Fest Semi-Finalist 2018
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AMERICAN HOME
THE ART OF DISAPPEARING
AMERICAN HOME
One out of every 54 homes in America received a foreclosure notice in 2008. Award winning playwright and author of "Love in the Time of Foreclosure," Stephanie Alison Walker, takes audiences on a deeply personal journey through recent history as she shines a light on three out of the millions of stories of loss. A young couple faces eviction from the dream house they stretched to buy; an elderly widow falls prey to a reverse mortgage scheme, and a minister of the prosperity gospel must face the flock shes led astray. American Home takes an unflinching look at the impossible choices people make when faced with losing everything, and, ultimately, celebrates the powerful resilience of community and the human spirit.
"Stephanie Alison Walker's American Home is a powerful and very important play about the 2008 housing crisis. Her wonderfully complex characters are challenged in a way that moves you, and, at times, makes you laugh. Just as important, amid all the harsh reality, Walker leaves us with a message of genuine hope while questions the American dream of being a home owner. " - Playwright, Jami Brandli
Blue Ink Award Winner 2011
Princess Grace Award 2010 Semi-Finalist
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