Washington Square Dreams by Gorilla Repertory Theatre. Weight ten-minute plays, all set during an outdoor performance of a Midsummer Night's Dream, celebrating the magic powers of live theatre. Fate by Elizabeth Horsburgh. In the sharply written compact play, a mysterious letter ignites romantic flights of fancy for a pair of passionate strangers. Velvet Ropes by Joshua Scher. Two innocents trapped in an art museum contemplate the nature of humor, performance, and art in the hilarious one-act play. The Language of Kisses by Edmund De Santis. An estranged mother and daughter come to terms with the past and themselves in this moving drama by the author of Making Peter Pope. Word to Your Mama by Julia Lee Barclay. A theatrical tour-de-force for three voices; channel surfing through a turn of the millennium mind trapped in the collective body of a night secretary. Cuban Operator Please... by Adrian Rodriquez. A thoughtful and moving short play about the effects of exile and death on the relationship between a father and son. The Elephant man - the Musical by Jeff Hylton & Tim Werenko. John Merrick gets to sings and dance on Braodway in this wickedly funny parody of all that's excessive in contemporary musical theatre. House of Trash by Trav S.D. A raucous populist musical farce about Bob Maggot, a garbageman moonlighting as a Baptist preacher, and his eccentric family. Straight-jacket by Richard Day. A gay movie star falls in love with his screenwriter in this brilliantly funny and incisive satire of Hollywood and hypocrisy. - Back cover.