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Wagner New Play Festival Package

STRANGE MEN May 11 - May 20
Haamid lives a modest life running a restaurant in a small market town in Uganda. A member of the minority Indian population, he is estranged from his family for reasons he prefers not to discuss. At night he cooks elaborate dinners that he eats alone. When an openly gay Peace Corps volunteer comes to town looking for more than a good meal, Haamid's comfortable routine is broken, and his life is put in danger. STRANGE MEN explores the limits of good intentions and the uneven stakes for Americans living abroad and the people whose lives they touch.

BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA May 10 - May 19
John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they scan the skies over their backyard in suburban Maryland looking for elusive birds, years go by. Relationships begin and end. Children grow up and parents die. The climate and the world change in small and vast ways. BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA takes a close look at the relationship of a father and daughter over the course of a decade as they struggle to understand the parts of one another that defy understanding.

(w)holeness May 9 - May 19
The support group for sex addicts meets every Monday in the little seaside town of Pescadero, California. But where is Dr. Jurgensen, the therapist whos supposed to lead the group? And is Dr. Jurgensens earnest intern who's left to lead the group in over her head? When Matt shows up, any illusion of a safe space shatters and the group must confront difficult truths and unexpected points of connection in a comedy about addiction, identity, and sex. (w)holeness asks the question: am I too damaged to be loved?

BABY TEETH May 12 - May 20
Elise needs a personal assistant. And a little assurance from her husband Rod that her marriage isn't falling apart. Rod just needs a quiet moment alone to get his head together and get the stranger in paint splattered jeans quietly out the door. Everybody needs to get that painting off the wall. BABY TEETH looks at what happens when who we think we are and what we think we want collide with our unexpressed appetites and desires.

ARE YOU THERE? May 12 - May 20
June and Adam are in love. June and Adam are ambitious. June and Adam just landed their dream jobs on opposite sides of the country. But these days, communication has never been easier. Right? As technology and the world transforms at alarming speed, so too do June and Adam's hopes, fears, and desires. From post-it notes to holograms, ARE YOU THERE? asks can you ever really know another person? And what happens between two people over time and space?