A series of royalty free short plays by Bunny Sparber, some in collaboration with Coco Mault, intended to be performed in nontraditional theatrical spaces and designed to be produced on microbudgets. These scripts explore the nature of performance, the relationship between audience and performer, and what happens when art violates intimacy and privacy.

The name of this series of plays comes from a documentary by Errol Morris, which, in turn, comes from an essay from MIT robotics professor Rodney Brooks; beyond that, it represents the process used in creating these scripts, involving improvisation, impossible deadlines, game playing, and extensive use of the Internet and social media to produce scripts in as fast and wild a manner as possible, with the resulting scripts reflecting the mania of the process.

Currently, no licensing or royalty fee is required for performances of these plays, nor is permissions required for those wishing to produce them. Our only request in that producers provide some physical documentation of the production, in the form of reviews, photographs, digital video recordings, etc. (An essay on why these scripts are royalty free.)

The plays in this series are as follows:

NSFW | BUNNY SPARBER
A disastrous rehearsal of a punk rock band that writes songs exclusively about the Internet.

BASEMENT PORN PARTY | BUNNY SPARBER & COCO MAULT
The audience is brought into an actual basement to watch the filming of an adult movie. Afterwards, there is a party.

A STAGED READING OF THE PLAY "THE TALLULAH BANKHEAD SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD GIRLS AND BOYS" BY THE PLAYRIGHT BANZAI ST. IVES | BUNNY SPARBER
A public staged reading of an impossible-to-produce script by a psychotic playwright goes instantly and calamitously wrong.

MOD AND MAD | BUNNY SPARBER & COCO MAULT
The audience is invited to see the making of a piece of art involving monochrome paint, a viola that plays one note, and three nude models. A documentarian films it and characters trade off narrating their experience of creating a scandalous painting in 1960s London.

SELF-ASSEMBLING PLAYS

A subsection of the Fast, Cheap & Out of Control selection, these are the instructions for the creation of a play, rather than the play itself. The authors provide the structure, tone, and stage action for a play, which the cast and director are then responsible for authoring themselves, or assembling out of found or interviewed sources.

SLEAZE BOOK CLUB | BUNNY SPARBER
A book club gathers to discuss a selection of vintage pornographic novels. Each performer provides a summary and a reading from their book. New books are assigned to random audience members.

DRAG | BUNNY SPARBER
A drag show assembled by the cast out of monologues of sexual outlaws and outside music taken from online sources, performed by actors in costumes traditionally associated with people of the opposite gender, to be performed at a gay bar.

ORGY | BUNNY SPARBER
The cast interviews real-life orgy enthusiasts and then performs monologues based on the interviews; once the monologue is completed, they assume sexual positions and play audio samples from pornographic record albums.