A. John Boulanger

House of Several Stories A. John Boulanger

Genre: Dark Comedy
Characters: 2m, 3f
Scenery: Interior

Bastian returns home for Thanksgiving with news of "joining the service." Mother suggests he join a gym. Bastian's news takes a backseat when his sister, Rissa, suddenly decides that she's pregnant, and though not yet showing, expects to deliver "any minute now". Both children are then bombarded with Mother's news of an older brother that they've never known about, Thom, who has returned home for Thanksgiving from the war. Things are further complicated with the arrival of the mysterious, young Abigail, who has simply stopped by to drop something off--her newborn baby. That is, until she discovers the baby's father might be in the house.

Winner, 2008 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Student Playwriting Award

"One of the few examples of purely American absurdism...outside of Edward Albee."
- Austin Chronicle

"An examination of dysfunction, perception and misperception, truth and/or lies, with all roads leading to life's perpetually unanswered question: What is real and true here?"
- Austinist.com