The LOST SOCK LAUNDRY is not some undisciplined hangout with no order or expectations. There are rules and expectations about how you use the Maytag, how long you can use the dryer before you get looks, and who gets to save a machine for a friend. IRENE, a second-generation Greek-American, and MICAELA, a first-generation Mexican-American, often meet to trade stories, gossip, commiserate about their children, and sometimes wash laundry. When a new immigrant DINA from Lebanon starts frequenting the space, the two women slowly, and somewhat warily, befriend her. Each of the women are dealing with their own struggles – IRENE’S poor dating choices and her hanging on ex-husband, MICAELA’S feeling that her husband and son are growing apart from her and each other, and DINA’S attempts to understand and make a home in a new country. As their personal lives become entwined, they must all confront their understanding of identity, culture, and especially nationality. LOST SOCK LAUNDRY is an episodic exploration about how we forge friendships, identity, and a national culture. By exploring how the power of women’s choices and lives intersection with the current national discussion about immigration and refugee policy, the play engages the human story of America and her embrace of new people.

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ON ARRIVING follows a young refugee, as she recounts her journey fleeing her home country. Through scenes about falling in love, giving birth, losing family, and political discussions, she tries to understand how anyone, including herself, can become a refugee.

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The once thriving Sparks Kennels are now empty, everyone scattered. When son Alex hears of a terrible crime and his mother’s institutionalization, he returns to find out the full story. With his mother Pauline in the prison hospital and his father Commodore fighting lung disease, he struggles to get his foster sister Shawna to explain how it all fell apart. Shawna and Alex clash over how much the past should be revered or abolished. Shawna’s motives are suspect as she smuggles in alcohol to bribe Pauline for information. When Pauline receives permission to visit her dying husband at home, Alex finally gets the chance to confront her about her crime. But it becomes apparent that Pauline’s damaged mind has retreated to nostalgia and any truth about the events or the motives will have to be reconstructed through what Alex can force out of Shawna. Unwilling to keep engaging in Shawna’s games, Alex decides to tear out the dog kennels and raze the land to erase the memories of the past. His decision forces Shawna to face the truth about what Pauline has done and the inability to recapture the past, which forces both of them to realize Pauline’s guilt is not hers alone and the past can’t just be absolved by confession but must confronted.