APPOINTMENT WITH gOD by Deborah Asiimwe:
Shortly after September 11th, a young artist, seeking to connect with artists beyond the boundaries of her own country, spends many hours at the U.S. Embassy among others who are also hoping to obtain a visa, and hears all about their dreams, their schemes and their fears. (UGANDA)


THE GET-TOGETHER by Mark Cantan:
The Greens are a family who’ve stopped talking properly to each other. 20 year old George is pregnant and doesn’t know what to do or how to tell her parents. Tim is 22 and people wonder what’s going on with him since he never seems to date anyone. Parents Phil and Harriet have accidentally agreed to a divorce which neither of them wants—and at their 26th wedding anniversary dinner each of them gets more and more confused by everyone else’s bizarre behaviour and starts to think they’re the only sane person in the house--and possibly the world. (IRELAND)


LONG WAY GO DOWN by Zayd Dorn:
Billy and Chris, the owners of a father-and-son truck depot on the Texas side of the Mexican border, attempt to make some extra money by smuggling a young Mexican couple into the US. They make a deal – half the money upfront, the other half to be paid by the young man’s grandmother upon delivery. But when they arrive in Texas, the grandmother has disappeared…(U.S.)


AMERICAN MYTH by Christina Gorman:
Newspaper reporter Peter Finnerty found a mentor in his beloved former professor Dr. Douglas Graham, the esteemed historian of Colonial America and bestselling author. Following up on the story he wrote about Graham’s recent win of the Roosevelt Prize, Peter learns that Graham, “The Historian Who Has Lived History”, may not be everything he claims. (U.S.)


GOD OF MEAT by Sam Hunter:
A video of insurgents beheading Jack Lewis has just been released over the Internet.  Back home in Idaho his widow Karen and his brother Bib embark on spiritual journey to Carthage, Missouri: will Karen find salvation in the Precious Moments Chapel, or will Bib’s mounting spiritual crisis tear them apart? (U.S.)


A LETTER FROM OMDURMAN by Jeffrey M. Jones:
A Letter from Omdurman is an assemblage of images, facts and stories—some true, some invented—which superimpose and interweave three historical periods: life in the contemporary United States; events leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral; and the Anglo-Sudanese war which ended in the defeat of the Mahdi Army at the Battle of Omdurman (1898), described by Winston S. Churchill in his memoir, The River War. (U.S.)


A BEAUTIFUL SPELL by Greg Kalleres:
Jim and Franny have been married for 12 years and are each other’s lives and identities. But when they wake up in the middle of the night having mysteriously fallen out of love, they panic. Terrified by the prospect of life outside of their marriage, they spend the rest of the night trying to fall back in love. Unfortunately, the more they try to remember who they are as a couple, the more lost they become as people. In the end, they must figure out if what they have is love, need or just routine--and, ultimately, if there is even a difference. (U.S.)


THE AENEID by Olivier Kemeid, translated by Judith Miller:
Civil war runs amuck in a city where people have kept on dancing instead of heeding the portents around them. A modern day Aeneas flees – with his past (his father Anchises) and his future (his son), his wife (Creusa) and his best friend (Achates) in tow. Their exile, gathering other lost ones but losing Creusa and Anchises in the fray, takes them to a land where plants leak blood, to a beach where well-off vacationers cannot face the horror they represent, to a refugee camp where all hope has disappeared, to a momentary halt in an unwelcoming city where Aeneas runs out of will power. Achates and Aeneas at last descend to a netherworld where a lascivious old crone admits them to Hades and the ghost of Anchises gives them the strength to conquer a new land. A highly physical and richly imagistic epic of violence, courage, doubt, and tenacity, Kemeid's Aeneid grapples with the most awful realities of the twenty-first century. (Québec, CANADA)


LIBERATION or THE CIRCLE JERK by Kevin Kuhlke:
Manhattan, the Village, a hot summer night in 1982: a young actor, just having broken up with his girlfriend and with nothing to lose, embarks on a night-long sexual and spiritual odyssey with a group of strangers looking for "fresh blood."  Drugs and Rock and Roll also included... (U.S.)


MOONCRAZED by Maksym Kurochkin, translated by John Hanlon:
A Russian riff on the Cyrano story, enhanced by Maksym’s Kurochkin’s signature flights of imagination and brilliant dialogue. The Cyrano figure here is older than the one in popular film adaptations, and Kurochkin shifts the focus away from the typical swashbuckling and romantic poetry toward Cyrano’s lesser-known scientific inclinations. Oscillating between 17th-century France and 21st-century Russia, the play presents subtle and complex emotional atmospheres and explores not so much the relationships between its characters, as the spaces that keep them apart—and poses big questions about artistic integrity, the purpose of work, and the nature of reality itself. (RUSSIA)


BLUE-S-CAT by Koffi Kwahulé, translated by Chantal Bilodeau:
Using the rhythms of blues music and of the vocal improvisational technique of scatting, Blue-S-cat presents the internal monologues of a man and a woman trapped in an elevator, and the dance of attraction  and fear that takes place between them. (FRANCE)


THAT NIGHT IN HIALEAH by Eduardo Machado:
 After twenty years of separation, a brother and sister from Cuba meet again in Hialeah, Florida and try to settle old scores and unrequited jealousy. A tale of betrayal, survival and the American dream, that cracks open the secrets plaguing a Cuban family looking for a new life in the land of opportunity. (U.S.)


AMERICAN KLEPTO by Allison Moore:
After her estranged father dies, Gail travels to Arizona where she must face an embittered stepmother and a half-sister she barely knows. When she discovers that there's genetic proof her father's heritage goes back to the very beginnings of life in America, Gail embarks on a comic stealing spree that includes not just department store goodies, but legal documents, cadavers, ancient artifacts and even a sacred piece of real estate. (U.S.)


FIVE DAYS IN MARCH by Toshiki Okada, translated by Aya Ogawa
In the days before the U.S. began its war against Iraq in March 2003, two Japanese urban hipsters meet at a post-rock show and get swept up into a one-night stand that turns into five days’ continuous sex. Such is the anticlimactic story in Five Days in March, the prestigious Kishida Kunio Drama Award-winning play by Toshiki Okada. Characterized by seemingly insubstantial narrative accompanied by exaggerated fidgeting gestures-turned-choreography, the ground-breaking and modern works of chelfitsch Theater Company have made them the most talked-about theater company in Japan. The story unfolds through actors who slip in and out of character while casually narrating and playing out scenes. Oblivious to the imminent invasion of Iraq, the slackers obsess over the details of a love affair, perfectly capturing the irony and impotency of Generation Y in Japan today. (JAPAN)


PURGE by Sofi Oksanen, translated by Eva Buchwald:
Purge opens a window on a remote area of newly independent Estonia in 1992. Aliide, who lives alone in a farm house on the Finnish-Estonian border, discovers a young woman named Zara in her yard. Through the two characters, Oksanen deals with the horrors experienced by the women of Soviet Estonia. The essence of the story is women’s resistance, and the blurring of good and evil that is its consequence. (FINLAND)


BEAUTIFUL LITTLE LIES by Judith Rudakoff:
A Cuban cocktail with a twist: Beautiful Little Lies follows the adventures of Juancy, a Cuban transvestite performer; Suzanne, a Canadian woman tourist whose mother has just died; Moffi, a little white Cuban dog with attitude; Bob, a closeted male homosexual tourist; and Maria, a Cuban mother with a passion for all life has to offer. And like Cuba itself, the world of Beautiful Little Lies is also populated by the ever present Orishas, the iconic and earthy spirit guides of the AfroCuban belief system. (CANADA)


THE TRUTH WILL OUT by Jordan Seavey:
A what-if fantasia of a celebrity journalist who is covering the one-year anniversary of the hate-motivated murder of a 15 year old boy (inspired by Larry King, the true-life boy murdered for propositioning a classmate).  The two stories intertwine creating a pulsating suspense play that asks questions about identity, media, love, hate, and the narratives that we create for ourselves to keep our true natures hidden. (U.S.)


WIRE AND ACROBATS by Peca Stefan:
Emil is a young writer hired by a Western theatre to write a short piece about his country-- the “New Romania”-- and his quickly improvised story unfolds as a series of almost surrealistic acrobatics that happen in the course of one night in Romania: an unappreciated artist threatens to kill himself in the center of Bucharest; a woman dreams of killing her abusive lover and running away to Iceland; a delusional father insists upon talking to a mummy he believes has hoarded his treasure; a businessman receives an unusual birthday present--a night with a sex worker-- from his wife; two sisters must decide what to do with their father’s ashes. A story about motorcycles and time warp. A gruesome and beautiful tale about remembering true love. (ROMANIA)


DIGGING by Christian Winkler, translated by Neil Fleming:
Somewhere in the countryside stands a house. After years in the city, Carl has finally found his way back out to his old friend Godfrey’s home. And he’s brought smart young Harold with him, just in case… Digging is about the past and the present. It is a play about friendship, and the unique laws of one friendship in particular, impenetrable to those who stand outside it. (AUSTRIA)


BALLS by Jonathan Yukich:
What happens when football and aliens mix in the South?  An Alabama family is forced to confront long submerged truths when a sports legend visits the small town of Balls.  As the big arrival nears, the family and town struggle to maintain their identity, civility and what’s left of their sanity. (U.S.)