BMax Butch MaxwellPlaywright

Plays for Stage and Audience

Every room has
a version of the truth.

Dramas, comedies, and interactive mysteries about the stories people tell themselves—and the moment those stories can no longer survive contact with the room.

Theatre begins with people in a room.

Plays for the Stage

The room applies pressure.
The people decide what survives.

A quiet room filled with the objects left behind in Remains.

Full-Length Drama · Featured Play

Remains

Four step-siblings who have never met spend one winter night in a cabin with no way out—and discover that memory is not the same thing as evidence.

Enter the room
Talbot Pawn & Loan near closing time on a rainy evening in Unredeemed.

One-Act Play · New Work

Unredeemed

A woman is three dollars short of reclaiming a pawned hunting knife. Then an old friend recognizes it.

Enter the shop
An open, annotated copy of The Importance of Being Earnest with a gold wedding ring resting on its title page in an empty theatre.

Full-Length Drama · World Premiere

Places

One community theatre production. Five people trying to behave professionally while the room remembers everything.

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An empty political campaign war room for Firewall.

Full-Length Drama

Firewall

Inside a political war room, loyalty becomes a system and every silence acquires a constituency.

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The warm, empty lobby of the LegacyFlow Institute Retreat Lodge in Successors.

Full-Length Philosophical Thriller

Successors

Four participants arrive for a Future Integrity assessment. Their facilitator promises clarity, purpose, and a better version of themselves.

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An empty audition room with chairs for Callback.

Full-Length Drama

Callback

An audition becomes a reckoning when the people judging the room discover the room has been judging them.

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An empty office chair behind a closed personnel file, pen, and coffee cup in a spare interview room.

Short Drama

Exit Interview

A routine personnel conversation discovers that every answer can be correct until the room hears it.

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A collection of comic evidence from Fine.

One-Act Comedy

Fine

One word. Several meanings. More trouble than any reasonable conversation should be able to contain.

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A blue umbrella leaning outside a glass university door on a rainy night.

Ten-Minute Comedy · New Work

Blue Umbrella

A skeptic says she doesn’t know. A theologian says he does. Then a blue umbrella appears outside the door.

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A shabby small-town police station waiting room with plastic chairs, a service window, drinking fountain, and old vending machine.

One-Act Drama

Blind Eye

They saw what was happening. They recognized the pattern. And they looked away.

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Interactive Mysteries

The audience enters the story.
The evidence refuses to behave.

Individual Mysteries

A few investigations from the larger repertoire.
An abandoned restaurant dining room for Café Rescue.

Interactive Comedy Mystery

Café Rescue

A restaurant rescue becomes a murder investigation before anyone can agree what exactly they are trying to save.

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A theatrical banquet table arranged as evidence for McDeath.

Interactive Shakespearean Murder Mystery

McDeath

Macbeth meets the murder-mystery banquet, and ambition acquires an audience.

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A Greek terrace holding the evidence in Dead Reckoning.

Interactive Mystery in Reverse

Dead Reckoning

The murder comes first. Then each scene moves backward until certainty becomes the final casualty.

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Pudding cups, bingo cards, and other evidence from Signfeld 2040.

Interactive Comedy Mystery

Signfeld 2040

At Del Boca Vista Phase III, retirement is quieter rage with better lighting—and considerably more paperwork.

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“The play begins when the omission gets too heavy to carry.”
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