July 19th - 20th

This anthology of (mostly) comedic sketches all take place on, you guessed it - benches and couches. Benches and couches are simple props, but they serve as a place to gather - both a bench and a couch will accommodate more than one person - so they become sites of communication, or conflict, or contrition, or anything else that can define a relationship. Few hostile corporate takeovers happen on a bench, and even fewer wars are fought from a couch. They are spaces for personal relationships, some romantic, some not, but all involving at least one person in a close, emotional connection to at least one other. 

July 26th - 27th

"Maid of Stone," and it's unlike any other play in the Grinder pantheon, in that it takes place in the past, the present and the future, from the mid 1990's to the late 2020's. A young woman meets her grandmother for the first time in the hospital where her estranged mother, a rich, successful chemist and the CEO of a multi-national pharmaceutical, has just been admitted with life-threatening injuries after falling (or did she jump? or was she pushed?) out of her office window. It’s a dystopian tale of a brilliant-but-flawed Millennial, set against the backdrop of a world descending into a neo-fascist hell-scape.