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On Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 8:00pm, Harry Patrick Christian will perform Packing by Scott Bradley. In this play, a queer vagabond embarks on a five-decade odyssey of self-discovery and reinvention. From small-town Iowa to England, New York, and Chicago, a man must navigate assaults, addictions, relationships, the plague years of the AIDS crisis, and the fight for marriage equality, in a quest to find where he belongs. The following Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 8:00pm, Scott Mc- Gowan will perform Dear Alien by Liz Duffy Adams. A shambolic, reclusive advice columnist known professionally as Dear Alien is under the gun. They have a deadline of yesterday for a collection of their columns; if they don’t turn it in they don’t get the advance, and they will be evicted from their apartment for non-payment of rent. In an attempt to create a passable manuscript, Dear Alien chooses seven unread letters at random and answers them, in a countdown to transcendent meaning or absolute despair. On Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 8:00pm, Harriett Trangucci will perform Natural Shocks: A One-Woman Play in a Tornado by Lauren Gunderson. Based on Hamlet’s “To be or not to be,” this play bursts to life when we meet a woman waiting out an imminent tornado in her basement. She overflows with quirks, stories, and a final secret that puts the reality of guns in America in your very lap. The play is part confessional, part stand up, and part reckoning. On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 8:00pm, Laura Ekstrand will perform Me Vs. My Subconscious by Rebecca Goldberg. In this solo show, a woman wakes up from a very strange dream and, realizing that her subconscious is telling her that she needs to make a big change, vows to quit her dead-end NJ STAGE - ISSUE 72 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 91