The Beasts create new plays annually, including site or subject specific works by commission.

Plays Currently Available:

Art Fool
An antic exploration of art and its artists. Fast and amusing, this play examines the role of the artist, the medium, the audience, and the hilarious interplay that occurs between all three. Both amusing and instructive. All Ages.

Magic Soles
A look at the underlying role of shoes in magical literature (Cinderella, the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and the Red Shoes) utilizing several modes of story telling: mask, dance, acting, puppets, and rolling scroll (a 19th c. storytelling convention). All Ages.

Myth Spritz
Oh those Greeks! A spirited and amusing bouquet of classical myths, including stories about Zeus, Metis, Hera, Io, Narcissus, Prometheus, Arachne, and Persephone. All Ages.

Sky Tails
A constellation of Native American Tales from seven different Native nations.
Wolf and Coyote (Miwok)
Skywoman (Onondaga)
Stealing the Sun (Muskogee)
Sun's Daughter (Cherokee)
The Great Lacrosse Game (Menomonee, Creek)
Spirit Dog (Cherokee)
the First Flute (Sioux)
Buffalo Woman (Lakota)
Pre-K - 4, and For Families.

The Princess and Dragon
An original fairytale with a chase and a twist. It is the birthday of the Princess, but the Princess is nowhere to be found! A search over water, land, and air discovers the princess at last, but she's acquired an unusual companion. Ah well, a happy ending nonetheless. A tale of romance, loss, and surprise. Pre-K - 4, and For Families.

Asian Mystery Tales
Three stories from Asia: Ho ichi the Earless and Urashima Taro from Japan, and Sister Lace in the Sky from China. All ancient stories presenting mists, ghosts, wails, and floating castles. Includes original music. All Ages.

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Upcoming Shows & Plays In-the-Works:

The following are on the drawing board of dreams at the moment:

One Thousand and One Nights
stories and vignettes - original and traditional - of fantasy and wit

Hanuman's Hot Pepper Leap
The mythic monkey of the Ramayana with a Mexican touch. Hanuman meets Quetzalcoatl in his leap for Rama.

Cattails and Tiger Lilies
the fanciful cat in international tales

The Beast Within
a play of Faustian dream, using Marlowe, Goethe, Mamet, as inspiration

Green Knight, Red Knight, where are the Blues?
a story of heroic dimension from a heraldic times.

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Past Repertory since 1989:

(Some pieces may be remounted) The Ice Queen and the Unicorn (based on the Snow Queen) Pigg's Way The Birth of Ganesh -- aka Ganesha, the Miraculous Elephant Psyche in Wonderland Love Bugs Transformation Blues Ceremony IsIs and the Dance through the Stars Valloton and the Nabis Toulouse too loose The Romance of the Swamp Rose Mallow and the Turk's Cap Lily Musica Dolce triplet Who Has Seen the Golden Egg - a Mystery Juliet, and her Romeo Fortuna is Taiche - Circus Fortuna Abduction of a Circus Fly Pandora's Reversals Celestial Circus Psyche and Eros Repertory between 1976-88 featured many pieces written by Melisande and masks created by Dan Potter.