In Victorian England, where women enjoy few legal rights, Kitty Warren has built an international business empire. When her daughter Vivie graduates from Cambridge, she presses her mother for answers as to their family background. The truth of how her mother survived poverty is difficult to hear; but it’s not the whole story. Shaw’s 1893 play takes a surprisingly modern view of the choices a woman must make, faced with little or no options before her, and the moral implications of economic survival.
Rogue Machine has a longstanding relationship with the work of Samuel D. Hunter, having previously produced the West Coast premieres of A Bright New Boise, A Permanent Image, and Pocatello, as well as the Southern California premiere of A Great Wilderness. Following Hunter’s recent Tony nomination for Little Bear Ridge Road, we are thrilled to present the Los Angeles premiere of this intimate, deeply moving play about two fathers who form an unexpected bond through shared vulnerability, parenthood, and economic uncertainty.
Saint Megan is the first play developed through Rogue Machine’s Playwrights’ Roundtable to receive a full production, marking a major step in our ongoing commitment to new plays and the writers who create them.
Based on the true story of Megan Phelps-Roper, who was born into the Westboro Baptist Church, the play follows Megan’s gradual deradicalization through a series of online conversations that began on Twitter in 2011 and ultimately led to her separation from her family and the only community she had ever known.
Part family drama, part spiritual reckoning, and featuring music, movement, and fierce emotional honesty, Saint Megan explores the long history of American millenarian Christian sects, our longing for salvation, and the moral courage it takes to face uncertainty.
A Pinterest-perfect mother has spent 17 years anticipating the day she will launch her daughter from the nest. Now that the time has come, she is determined to squeeze in every crucial life lesson the night before high school graduation – until her perfectly planned TED Talk gets derailed by unexpected twists and unscripted bombshells.
Funny, bawdy and moving, B+ MOM is about the parent who won’t let go and the child with one foot out the door (and one eye on her phone).