Theatre and Music Events by Mimi Seton ~  the plays are currently available for production and the new CD is being worked on and will be posted on this site 

1. BODY WITHOUT BONES ~ a black comic  expressionistic piece with 5 songs, calls for 2 middle aged actresses, 1 middle aged actor, and one young actress who can all sing and all play piano.  Approximately 75 min.   Theme: Plastic Surgery

2. MOTHER MORPHINE or THE LAST EIGHT DAYS  ~ a narrative monologue, solo piece   Approximate 1 hr.  The last eight days of a cancer victim's life distilled into one hour of her inner thoughts as she is coming in and out of morphine-induced dreams

3. THE ABDUCTION OF LADY WEN CHI (possibly to be retititled:  SIGH WHEN SHE) ~ A  2  hour+  musical event demanding 10 actor-singers and 4 instrumentallists  ~ inspired by the poetry of Lady Tsai Wen Chi who was captured by Mongol nomads at the end of the Han Dynasty

4. CONVERSATIONS WITH THE WATER MAN ~ 3 character play, realism.  Calls for 2 Hispanic and 1 Caucasian actors.  A love story between a white Hollywood actress of 55 and an Hispanic truck driver of 30 ~ during the initial years of the War in Iraq.

5. CRONES ~  a bitter-sweet 2-hander for 2 older women, one Jewish, one Wasp, both New Yorkers, old college friends, catching up on the contentments and vicissitudes of their divergent life paths

'HEALING CDs'  in the works 2012

1.  10 piano improvisations dedicated to 10 friends,  with subliminal suggestions for health under each track: HEAVEN IS HEALTHY

2.  A collection of lullabys for children with gentle spoken suggestions to grow self-esteem and respect for others