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.
Set over the course of a single, suspenseful night in a Queens cemetery, this darkly comic thriller focuses on two gravediggers and one woman who must confront a web of love, adultery, and murder. They’ll be forced to decide whether it’s better to pay for your sins in this life – or the next.
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 |
| WED June 24 | 7:30 PM | PlayFest Unscripted: A Night of Improv | FREE | Durango Arts Center |
| THU June 25 | 7:00 PM | A Deal Picked Just for You | $35 | FLC Community Concert Hall |
| FRI June 26 | 3:00 PM | Last Day | $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 | Last Day | $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 |
