Sex, War, and Syphilis

Commissioned and workshopped by Raw Sugar and Theatre Unbound

WW2 poster featuring Hitler, a skeleton with long hair in a red dress, and Hirohito walking together with the caption "VD, worst of the three."

It’s 1917, and seventeen-year-old Hazel has gone crazy for men in uniform. Her best friend Florence doesn’t like it one bit — and neither does the war department. A historical comedy about a real-life government program to protect soldiers from syphilis by policing women’s sexuality

World Premiere

Raw Sugar and Theatre Unbound
April 6-15, 2018, Minneapolis

Part of the WTF Comedy Festival
Directed by Morgan Holmes
Featuring Kiko Laureano, Laura Mason, Sab Diehl, Kendall Kent and Michael Venske.

Staged Reading

Last Frontier Conference
Valdez, Alaska
June 2019
Stage Instructions: Erika Lee Garcia
Hazel: Alexis Kulani Woodard
Florence: Becca Padrick
Pauline: Angela Colavecchio
Raymond Fosdick: Cody Goulder
Maude Miner: Annie McCain Engman
Emmett Scott: Markell Gay
Ensemble: Denise Cotten
Ensemble: Mark Muro
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