Rough Cuts (July 2025)

Rough Cuts is a presentation of new plays from the 46 Minutes Writers Group! The Writers Group has been hard at work drafting over the course of their 12 week winter session and Rough Cuts presents 10 minutes readings of their newly developed work to audiences. Come to the Brick Aux for an evening of new works spoken into the world for the first time!

Tickets are pay what you want with a suggested donation of $15.

Summer 2025 Rough Cuts Features

Holding the Head of Pentheus by Sydney Duncan

Agave's sister Semele died alone, while pregnant. Leaving her son Pentheus to be raised by his grandfather Cadmus, Agave lives alone in the cabin where Semele died, haunted by the ghost of her unborn nephew, while Pentheus and Cadmus try to pick up the pieces of their family legacy.

At the End by Gabby Kimbrough

Two roommates, who are maybe more than just friends, grapple with a world falling apart around them in their Brooklyn apartment.

fish sauce bomb by Cha Mangan

Christian has always enjoyed making homemade bombs. His grandpa is dead. Drank dirty water from a spillage from Steelworks, a nearby Factory. Haunted by a familiar vengeful ghost, Christian climbs the ranks of Steelworks. He wants to meet the CEO. He also carries a fish sauce bomb in his bag.

What Remains by Laurel Mora

Following a near death experience in his teens, Santiago works as a Record Keeper documenting memories of the recently deceased so they can pass on to the afterlife. However, his frequent communions with the dead strain his ability to connect with the living, especially Isaiah.

GREASEY by Mukta Phatak

We’re in New Jersey at a predominantly South Asian high school - and the theater club is putting on Grease! The classic American assimilation musical has uncomfortable resonance with the actors, their peers, and their immigrant parents who are in their own adolescent years in this country. One wonders - what does it take to fit in?