Papito is a ten-page short play addressing parentification, specifically how a young man who grows up without a father assumes the partnership role with his mother and has difficulty establishing a healthy partnership with a significant other. The narrator, Zoe, is that significant other who is frustrated with her domineering mother-in-law and her husband who refuses to establish needed boundaries for his mom.
A lighter & comedic version of "Space Oddity" by David Bowie, where Major Tom is not as prepared as he should be because he doesn't Read The Freakin' Manual (RTFM), as Ground Control nags him to do.
A tribute to Dr. Seuss and a parody of "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back", where Nick & Sally are savvy enough to call Social Services to deal with both The Cat and the pink snow that he created.
“The Legacy of an Invisible Father” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series “Legacy of a Father.” The short play highlights one woman’s futile attempt to locate a father through a private investigator. Angela’s lifelong loss of a father figure is further complicated by her biracial identity and her struggles with an unloving mother. Within the script, Angela must come to the terms that fate hadn’t been cruel to her at all, that maybe the absence of her father was the heavens working in her favor.
Jeff, a college student who, in his words, "has honorable intentions, a good future, and works out 3 times a week" asks his friend Bob for advice on women after he learns that Veronica can't stomach him. He wonders if he's asked the right person when he discovers that Bob doesn't even know how Marvin Gaye died. Alicia puts it all into perspective.
A very different Dorothy lands in Oz to find some romantic interest from one of the Munchkins and a conflict over language and meaning from the Good Witch.
“Unlocked Doors” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series, “Legacy of a Father" , and touches on the impact of incest for one woman. Christine, a wife and mother in her thirties, is losing her faith and has hit an emotional wall due to the past sexual abuse of her father. Decades after the abuse, Christine is challenged to aggressively take back the control robbed from her as a child.
“Wrong Place, Wrong Time” is another 10-minute short in Monique Franz play series, “Legacy of a Father.” The script touches on the soil on which many troubled inner-city youth grow, especially those without the presence of a quality father figure. The script highlights the lack of choices that men of urban contexts are presented with, from birth until adulthood.
