June 23 – 28, 2026 | Durango, CO
8th Annual Durango PlayFest
Purchase Tickets at durangoconcerts.com
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.
Years after their father is convicted for the murder of sixteen women, siblings Elise and Harry are forced to confront their own buried secrets when Harry comes home with plans to exploit their infamous past by converting the family homestead into a murder house tourist attraction.
schedule
| TUE June 23 | 6:00 PM | Festival Kick-Off Party | $125 | Rochester Hotel Garden |
| WED June 24 | 5:00 PM | Playwrights’ Panel Discussion & Reception | FREE | Blue Rain Gallery |
| THU June 25 | 7:00 PM | A Deal Picked Just for You | $35 | FLC Community Concert Hall |
| FRI June 26 | 3:00 PM | The German | $25 | FLC Community Concert Hall |
| FRI June 26 | 7:00 PM | Hazel & Bea in the In-Between | $35 | FLC Community Concert Hall |
| SAT June 27 | 3:00 PM | The Henry Clyde Canning Murder House | $25 | FLC Community Concert Hall |
| SAT June 27 | 7:00 PM | The German | $35 | FLC Community Concert Hall |
| SUN June 28 | 11:00 AM | Hazel & Bea in the In-Between | $25 | FLC Community Concert Hall |
| SUN June 28 | 3:00 PM | A Deal Picked Just for You | $25 | FLC Community Concert Hall |
| SUN June 28 | 7:00 PM | The Henry Clyde Canning Murder House | $35 | FLC Community Concert Hall |
