Kvetch makes the audience privy to the inner anxieties of a modern family. Even as they try to behave as civilized members of society, they betray their inner lives as raging beasts by telling the audience what they're really thinking.

West Coast Premiere

In David Greig’s poetic drama, an American pilot has crash-landed in a distant country rent by civil war. Since the country's government is supported by the U.S. government and the pilot has landed in rural, rebel territory, he represents both a temptation and an opportunity. The play tells the villagers’ story as they decide what to do with him.

Seattle Premiere

World Premiere Adaptation

Nothing is what it seems in The White Devil, John Webster's portrayal of a tangled web of lust, corruption, betrayal and revenge. Based upon actual events, this fascinating tale recounts the affair and murder that shocked 16th-Century Italian society. Moral narcissism reigns in a world of political intrigue - where lovers plot to murder their spouses, a brother prostitutes his sister for his own advantage, religious leaders spy on their fellow citizens and all paths lead to violent revenge. Re-imagined in the height of McCarthyism, Theater Schmeater's production of The White Devil explores our own experience with political and moral corruption - and our endless obsession with scandal.

For Katherine and Stanley, a quick trip to Washington DC for Stanley to accept a prestigious literary award is interrupted by the presence of Pamela, an alluring and intelligent young devotee whom he had just met on the plane into town. Pamela’s world view manifests Stanley's unstated philosophical writings in all too human form. Flirtatious banter quickly escalates into a serious challenge to his marriage, his carefully constructed life, and the philosophical foundation of his being. Brutal truth overwhelms fragile, barely whispered hope in this arresting play that exposes love, marriage and contentment to blinding scrutiny.

So Many Words premiered at South Coast Repertory Theatre in 1993, where it garnered two awards from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle – one for best writing and the other for best play to receive its world premiere in Los Angeles or Orange counties (the Ted Schmitt Award).