Smile! and Bluebeard's Wives

Since moving off shore, business has boomed for Smile! Ltd. The extraction program is highly lucrative, and the female correction facility is crammed. Come release day, a cheerful examiner removes the trainees' grinning masks and claims their positivity assessment is just a routine bit of fun. But as his tests get more competitive, the arguing trainees start to fail. Will the Island women ever find their way to freedom? Smile! is a new play for radio or stage set in an alternate reality, using allegory to advocate global social justice. Bluebeard's Wives reworks the fairytale of the secretive wife murderer. and explores female commodification and gender roles. Alone in her husband's castle, this inquisitive wife is determined to survive...