December 26, 2022 • 91 mins
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The fourth annual-ish holiday-ish play by Marissa McCool
2022 version coming next week.
Bitter Tea, the Way the Volcano Gods of Rainier Intended: An Audioplay
SUMMARY
Eleanor and Rain, two non-binary recluses, live off the grid and gender binary in Northern Minnesota. Living with them is a younger college student named Alex. One day, Alex comes home and drops a bomb on them: they met a girl named Jenny at school and was invited to thanksgiving dinner with her family. The problem? Alex RSVP’d… for all of them. Alex signed up Rain and Eleanor to come… as their cisgender heterosexual parents. Now, not only do Eleanor and Rain have to figure out how to pretend to be something they’ve never been, but they have to learn how to interact with people they’ve avoided for over a decade. They have, like, a family. That comes together on holidays. And they’re all still married. And they’re straight. And cisgender. What kind of twisted world is this?
CAST
Eleanor - Ari Stillman
Rain - Tom S Tea
Alex - Murphy Lennex-McCool
Jenny - Jen Aldrich
Gloria - "Dr. Mac" Melissa MacDonald
Aunt D - Giovannie Espiritu
Grandma Ruth - Jodi "Moose" Rehlander
Grandma Emma - Erin "Redwood" Truex
Aunt Kathy - Amy Withawhy
Vi - Marissa Lennex-McCool
Jack - Tim Wick
Uncle Frank - Don Ford, Jr. "Voice of Fantasy and Adventure"
Uncle Dave - Eli Dadabhoy
Grandpa Roger - Tony Opelt
WRITTEN, DIRECTED, CAST, AND EDITED BY
Marissa McCool
Music by The Midnight
Sound effects and scene music from creative commons and sound effects libraries
The fourth annual-ish holiday-ish play by Marissa McCool
2022 version coming next week.
Bitter Tea, the Way the Volcano Gods of Rainier Intended: An Audioplay
SUMMARY
Eleanor and Rain, two non-binary recluses, live off the grid and gender binary in Northern Minnesota. Living with them is a younger college student named Alex. One day, Alex comes home and drops a bomb on them: they met a girl named Jenny at school and was invited to thanksgiving dinner with her family. The problem? Alex RSVP’d… for all of them. Alex signed up Rain and Eleanor to come… as their cisgender heterosexual parents. Now, not only do Eleanor and Rain have to figure out how to pretend to be something they’ve never been, but they have to learn how to interact with people they’ve avoided for over a decade. They have, like, a family. That comes together on holidays. And they’re all still married. And they’re straight. And cisgender. What kind of twisted world is this?
CAST
Eleanor - Ari Stillman
Rain - Tom S Tea
Alex - Murphy Lennex-McCool
Jenny - Jen Aldrich
Gloria - "Dr. Mac" Melissa MacDonald
Aunt D - Giovannie Espiritu
Grandma Ruth - Jodi "Moose" Rehlander
Grandma Emma - Erin "Redwood" Truex
Aunt Kathy - Amy Withawhy
Vi - Marissa Lennex-McCool
Jack - Tim Wick
Uncle Frank - Don Ford, Jr. "Voice of Fantasy and Adventure"
Uncle Dave - Eli Dadabhoy
Grandpa Roger - Tony Opelt
WRITTEN, DIRECTED, CAST, AND EDITED BY
Marissa McCool
Music by The Midnight
Sound effects and scene music from creative commons and sound effects libraries
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