8th Annual Durango PlayFest

In this absurdist comedy, shut-ins Maggie and Brenda have sworn off the chaos of the outside world and focus their obsessions on Amazon packages, food-delivery, and denial — that is, until a string of uninvited guests upends their fragile bubble. A play about what happens when absurdity becomes the new normal, and why we keep searching for connection anyway.

Decades after a chance encounter on a train, a Jewish man travels to Germany and the home of the German who intends to kill him – a home haunted by ghosts of the Jewish family who once resided there. Unexpectedly funny, at times emotionally devastating, but ultimately liberating, the play seeks to heal the wounds of the past.

When two elderly women — Hazel, sharp-tongued and fiercely independent, and Bea, warm but forgetful — meet as roommates in a nursing home, they clash over space, noise, and personality. As they reminisce about the lives that they’ve lost, Hazel comes to believe Bea is the Beatrice she loved as a teenager.