Original Playscripts by Wesley Savick

Available upon request

Loss of Breath
The Unfinished Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe

An adaptation of EAP’s work featuring puppetry in the first act and traditional Japanese Noh in the second act

Handbook of Civilian Defense (What Every Loyal American Can Do To Help The United States Win The War)

A theatrical adaptation (with original music) of the 1942 government handbook published to prepare families for uncertainty and violence, then and now.  This production, which summons the anxiety, ignorance and hopefulness of an eighty-year-old public service announcement to awaken 21st century world citizenship, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2023.

Einstein’s Dreams

adapted from the novel by Alan Lightman

Car Talk: The Musical!!!

music by Michael Wartofsky inspired by the beloved NPR show

Rhinoceros

a new adaptation of Eugene Ionesco’s play

one state, two state/red state, blue state

a new American musical about our divided nation
Music by Wesley Savick, Brian Bernhard, and Scott Nicholas

Mr g

adapted from the novel by Alan Lightman. recipient of an Edgerton Foundation for New American Plays Award

Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M.

based on the life of Henry Molaison, the most studied human subject in brain/cognition research commissioned by Catalyst Collaborative and Central Square Theatre

FAB! (whatever)

a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s Ciascuno a suo modo

Shouting Theatre in a Crowded Fire

adaptation of the writings of historian/activist Howard Zinn

R.U.R.

a new adaptation of Karel Capek’s play

Waters Rising

a play about global warming and Oedipus Rex with original country music

The Suicide

a new adaptation, set in Baghdad, of Nikolai Erdman’s play

Miss Margaret LaRue in “Milwaukee”

a play about the homeland with the feel of a graphic novel

shrapnel

inspired by and adapted from the writings of post-Jungian psychologist James Hillman, war correspondent and social critic Chris Hedges, and psychologist Lawrence LeShan