"Sure Thing" is about two people who meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational mine field as an off-stage bell interrupts their false starts.
"The Philadelphia" presents a man who has fallen into a "Philadelphia" -- a twilight-zone state in which he cannot get anything he asks for, unless he asks for the opposite.
“Words, Words, Words” recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will eventually produce Hamlet, and asks: what would the monkeys talk about during the process?
“Variations on the Death of Trotsky" portrays the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain climber’s axe he has discovered in his head.
“The Universal Language" brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics... and of course true love.