Bitter Tea, the Way the Volcano Gods of Rainier Intended: An Audioplay - 2021

Support my work at paypal.me/RissyMcCool or Venmo@ThePurpleAmazonThe fourth annual-ish holiday-ish play by Marissa McCool2022 version coming next week. Bitter Tea, the Way the Volcano Gods of Rainier Intended: An AudioplaySUMMARYEleanor 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?CASTEleanor - Ari StillmanRain - Tom S TeaAlex - Murphy Lennex-McCoolJenny - Jen AldrichGloria - "Dr. Mac" Melissa MacDonaldAunt D - Giovannie EspirituGrandma Ruth - Jodi "Moose" RehlanderGrandma Emma - Erin "Redwood" TruexAunt Kathy - Amy WithawhyVi - Marissa Lennex-McCoolJack - Tim WickUncle Frank - Don Ford, Jr. "Voice of Fantasy and Adventure"Uncle Dave - Eli DadabhoyGrandpa Roger - Tony OpeltWRITTEN, DIRECTED, CAST, AND EDITED BYMarissa McCoolMusic by The MidnightSound effects and scene music from creative commons and sound effects libraries