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Crooked Heart Theater

Crooked Heart Theater is a non-profit theater group based in Los Angeles devoted to the development and production of new American plays.

Formed in the spirit of W.H. Auden's poem "As I Walked Out One Evening," Crooked Heart strives to create a wide array of human experiences, reflecting what it's like to be alive today, while creating new theatrical traditions for the future.

Full Length Plays

Punk Rock Mom

PUNK ROCK MOM tells the story of JAMIE FONTAINE, a former punk rocker and single mother to JOAN OLIVETTE. Though she's lost a little eyeliner and a lot of black leather along the way, Jamie still has the spirit of the music. When Joan makes a startling announcement, Jamie has to find her daughter's birth father and come to terms with the fact that she'll be a grandmother soon. What does it mean to age when you don't feel old? And how can you bridge the generation gap when you're the one who needs to grow up?

Check out the play's national premiere @ the Venus Theatre in Baltimore from May 3rd-27th, 2012 if you're in the area!

Coyote Nightmare

HELEN CHASTAIN wakes up one morning to find a strange man in her bed, a killer hangover … and a brand new tattoo. The man in her bed (GREG MASTERS) is easily 20 years older, and she can't remember his name, or how they met. Greg wants to take Helen out for breakfast, but her father (THOMAS CHASTAIN), a respected academic and author, will be here any minute. And she can't have a tattoo.

Helen is furious that Greg let her get inked up while they were drunk, but he's been with her all night and swears it's not true. Thomas shows up just as the second and third tattoo mysteriously show up on Helen's body, then a fourth, fifth and sixth. What's causing them? And, more importantly, how will Helen reclaim her body?

Short Plays

The Thing With Feathers

You think you know that guy in the diner, eating dinner on his own? You think you have him pegged?

Think again.

Bactaire is a monster trying to fit into the human world by subverting his needs, putting on a suit and working as an insurance adjustor. One marriage and two kids later, though, some of the old urges begin to come back … stronger than ever.

Emily Dickinson called hope "the thing with feathers." This play has absolutely nothing to do with her.

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