“Remember the name Aleks Merilo…
He has written one of the most astounding, suspenseful, and enlightening plays of the season.”
Buzz Belmont, The Houston Chronicle review of EXIT 27, June 24, 2013
Buzz Belmont, The Houston Chronicle review of EXIT 27, June 24, 2013
7m / 8f, 2 sets
100 Minutes
Newly expelled and seemingly futureless, Sonny and his friends engage in a final night of revelry that will end with one of them going missing. 18 years earlier, Sonny's parents were involved in a crime that would never be reported. These two stories collide in the present day in the play THE HANGING GIRL
4M / 1F , 90 min
Since the year 2000, the citizens of one town have abandoned nearly fourteen hundred boys in the Utah Desert. They are called the Lost Boys of Utah. EXIT 27 is based on their stories.
3m/1f, 1 set
90 Minutes
In the dead of winter, a teenage girl’s estranged father unexpectedly takes her to a cabin in the isolated woods of Montana. She doesn’t know where he has been for the last 10 years. And she doesn’t know who he is searching for at night, when he stares out the window, with a sawed-off shotgun by his side.
2M / 1F , 90 min
Unseen for 8 years, a quiet, hardened, and heavily tattooed young man named Jasper appears one night, standing in the dirt road outside a modest small town home. The house may or may not belong to Rory, Jaspers high school girlfriend, who remembers him fondly, but has never spoken his name to anyone. Who Jasper is, where he has been, and his unspoken motives are slowly revealed during a startling chain of events in this drama.
1M / 1F, 90 min
In 1918, the worst plague in human history hit America. When a small Washington town finds itself the subjecy of a military quarantine, a young sailor and a 19 year old widow from opposite sides of the blockade engage in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, putting their lives, and souls, in the balance.
1m/1 set
30 Minutes
An aging Russian immigrant recalls a time when a man’s crimes could be burned into his flesh for the world to see, and a time where a father’s love for his country came into direct conflict with his love for his daughter.