Dark No Sugar

THE FINAL INTERROGATION OF CEAUSESCU'S DOG - Ceausescu's dog is interrogated shortly after the Romanian revolution. (2 men)

MR MORTON WAITS FOR HIS BUS - An anxious rookie cop babysits a corpse in a studio walk-up on a fourth of July weekend. (2 men)

UNITED - A young woman meets her brother's new boyfriend who turns out to be her ex-boyfriend. (2 men, 1 woman)

HAPPY FOR YOU - Five "friends" watch the Oscars on a night their "friend" has been nominated. (3 men, 2 women)

NINE-TEN - A pool of prospective jurors grumble about their plight on the day before 9/11. (3 men, 3 women)

FEAR NETWORK NEWS - "You give us five minutes, we'll scare the bejeezus out of you!" (3 men, 3 women, doubling)

PAY-PER-KILL - A killer's execution is televised on pay-per-view TV. (7 men, 2 women, doubling)

JUDAIC PARK - Steven Spielberg pitches Schindler's List to Hollywood executives. (4 men, 1 woman)

WHAT I DID WRONG - A single woman obsesses about the mistakes she made that ended her relationship with a jerk. (1 woman)

NORM-ANON - At last there's a support group for adult children of normal parents. (1 man, 2 women)

THE MORNING AFTER - The TV game clock is "automatically put on hold" when a dating-game contestant alleges abuse. (4 men, 3 women)

LOVE OF THE GAME - A star baseball player teaches his son that how you play the game is not nearly so important as winning. (1 man, 1 woman, 1 boy)

AMICI, ASCOLTATE - A son's imminent departure for Iraq prompts his father to examine the fate of men in his family when sent to war. (2 men, 1 woman, doubling)

REVIEWS

"Marvelously original ... rife with social and political satire" ~ Time Out

"A delicious spoofing of trivial urban concerns [with] a very potent sting in its narrative tale" ~ Chicago Tribune