aaron adair | featured works.

Can We Sleep Now? is about a young couple, Manprasad and Madhuri, who experience a difficult night in a roadside motel. This one-act play requires minimal staging and two actors. First production by Saarthak Productions (Bengaluru, Karnataka, India): Dramatica Volume 2.

Reconstructing Julie is a short play about an intelligent young woman who receives an unorthodox diagnosis from her therapist, resulting in a lively, humorous debate about the nature of existence. Available from Brooklyn Publishers.

Reconstructing Julie was a huge hit in our annual Spring Shorts 10-minute play festival. The play is smart, witty and provided a great challenge to our actors. Audiences loved the play, and it was the highlight of our festival." - James Venhaus, St. Mary's Hall

The plot of L'imbécile (the fool), a royal and her subject locked in a deadly dance of betrayal and revenge, is shamelessly stolen from Verdi's opera Rigoletto, which, in turn, was adapted in 1851 from Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse. Complex roles for women abound in this daring, gender-bent play. First production: Babes With Blades Theatre Company, Chicago. (2014).

“Trade in the shackles of morality for a pair of handcuffs, the play spits. 'Tis better to have loved brutally than to have lived boringly.”
- Chicago Reader

The Trouble With Brandon is a short play about a couple confronting the impact their love has had on others. This 10-minute play requires minimal staging and two actors. Presented by New York's NativeAliens Theatre Collective, as part of Short Stories 9.

Unwritten Rules, a short play about the intersection of politics and hubris, requires minimal staging and two actors. First presented by Chicago's Fury Theater as part of Short Attention Span Theater III.

Corn Flakes is the story of a condemned man’s last meal and his attempts to wrap-up his life and legacy in a less than sympathetic environment. This 10-minute play requires minimal staging and three actors. First produced by Blue Pearl Theatrics, "The Passion of Power" at The Steve & Marie Sqouros Theatre (The Players Theater), New York, NY.

Construction Time Again examines a skirmish between two opposing forces, one seeking to enclose the planet, the other fighting to stay outdoors. First produced by Otherword Theatre Company, 3rd Annual PARAGON Play Festival, Chicago.

Buried In the Bahamas is the story of Nikki, a charmingly unstable young lady who finds winter more exhilarating than life. This short, darkly comedic play requires minimal staging and three actors. It was first performed by the Close Theatre Company of St. Albans in Washington, D.C. Its New York premiere was by NativeAliens Theatre Collective.