VDL Awards Entry: 2025
Author: David Lindsay-Abaire
Director: John Bishop
Genre: Drama
Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted the most serious, simple but painstakingly beautiful, dramatically resourceful, exquisite play.
Author: Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Director: Isabella Preston
Genre: Musical
Agent: ORIGIN Theatrical on Behalf of Theatrical Rights Worldwide New York
In the kooky, upside-down world of the Addams Family, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy, and death and suffering are the stuff of their dreams. Nonetheless, this quirky family still has to deal with many of the same challenges faced by any other family, and the spookiest nightmare faced by every family the Addams kids are growing up. Gomez and Morticia’s dak, macabre, beloved daughter Wednesday, daughter Wednesday, however, is now an eighteen year-old young woman who is ready for a life of her own. She has fallen in love with Lucas Beineke, a sweet, smart boy from a normal, respectable Ohio family — the most un-Addams sounding person one could be! And to make matters worse, she has invited the Beinekes to their home for dinner. In one fateful, hilarious night,secrets are disclosed, relationships are tested, and the Addams family must face up to the one horrible thing they’ve managed to avoid for generations: change.
VDL Awards Entry: 2025
Author: Oscar Wilde
Director: Katie-Jane Amery
Genre: Comedy
Agent: nil
Two young gentlemen living in 1890’s England use the same pseudonym (“Ernest” ) on the sly, which is fine until they each fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
Author: Neil Simon
Director: Michelle Swann
Genre: Other
Following BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BILOXI BLUES, this is the poignant and funny conclusion of Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical Eugene trilogy.
Eugene and his brother Stanley are trying to break into the world of professional comedy writing, while coping with their parents’ messy and gut-wrenching split.
When their material is broadcast on the radio for the first time, the rest of the family is upset to hear a comedic rendition of their own trials and tribulations.
How will Eugene and his brother balance their loyalties to their family and to their art?
Author: Martin McDonagh
Director: Travis Handcock
Genre: Comedy
Agent: By Special Arrangement with Origin Theatrical
A Dark Comedy set in Ireland.
Mick and Mairton are gravediggers whose job is to disinter the bones of seven-year-old corpses and smash them to dust to make room for the new arrivals. Gossip has it that Mick murdered his wife, so Mick arranges that Tom, Mairton’s policeman brother, should be at her disinterment. But the bones are missing. Mairton gives the game away by mentioning a locket which was buried with his wife — but Tom, desperate for promotion, turns a blind eye.
Author: Jean-Pierre Martinez
Director: TBA
Genre: Drama
Six mysterious characters are stranded on an island by a ferry strike. They all have a good reason for wanting to get back to the mainland as quickly as possible. They board a fishing boat piloted by an improvised smuggler. But the price they have to pay for the crossing is higher than expected… A humorous fable about the shortcomings of our society.
Author: Nick Dear
Director: George Benca
Genre: Drama
Agent: Origin Theatrical
This is a retelling of the original story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster in which we see the plight of the obsessive scientist’s sad creation, who becomes his alter ego and his nemesis. The script is based on the highly acclaimed 2011 National Theatre production adapted by Nick Dear.
Author: Robin Hawdon
Director: Pip Le Blond
Genre: Comedy
Agent: By arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company.
The big day has finally arrived! In a few short hours, Tom and Rachel will be happily married. But when Tom wakes up in the bridal suite with a hangover, no memory of the night before, and a strange woman in bed beside him, he will have to think fast to save himself from disaster. When the best man arrives early, along with the chambermaid, and the mother-in-law, the only thing that could possibly make it worse would be for Rachel herself to … well, your wedding day is a day you’ll always remember!
With wild misunderstandings, hilarious mishaps, and loads of laughs, this frantic farce has delighted audiences in over 30 countries. You’re invited to this ‘Perfect’ Wedding!