Robin Rice Lichtig
- Saint Anthony and the Appendix
A young man on the cusp of 21 checks into a hospital to have an appendectomy. A nun at the admitting desk informs him that he has to separate from more than his appendix in order to grow up. He has to separate from his mother by telling her that he is gay. In this bizarro hospital, a statue of Saint Anthony comes alive to help confront Mother, who shows up loaded for bear. The young man’s out-there lover also shows up and the stage is set for crazy, laugh-filled but touching conflict with a surprising resolution.
First run: December, 2001, Unity Fest, NYC (The Fourth Unity, producer).
Winner: Drury University competition. Finalist: Perishable Theatre.
One-Act: 50 min. single set
3M: 36, 20s
2F: 40s, 21-ancient (additional female, any age, may be added)
- Embracing the Undertoad
A waitress expects an unwelcome guest: her tuned-into-the-aura-of-the-
universe sister. She definitely doesn’t want her lover, a blocked novelist, to meet gorgeous and manipulative sister. In a clash of personalities, desires and dreams, their lives are rearranged and even the cosmos is shifted a bit. First run: Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Chicago, September-November 2002.
Winner: Lesbian Arts Festival Playwriting Contest (2002) Bailiwick Rep.
One-Act: 50 min. – single set
3F: probably 20s (any age within 10 years of each other)