An award-winning romantic comedy. Dingo, a regular ol' college freshman, gets accepted to UC Santa Cruz, where he becomes a Women's Studies major so he can practice his hobby of chasing women around. To fund his womanizing, he gets a job at the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot, where nothing is as it seems.

Mystery Spot

GENRE: Full-length comedy. Produced.
VENUES: College, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
RATING: PG-13 for subject matter and language
CAST: Five main characters: 1 male (late teens, early 20s), 1 male (50-60s); 2 female (20-30s), 1 female (50-60).
Three or four ensemble: any sex and any age.
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes. Optional intermission.
SET: Single, fun, surreal set. Lines forming optical illusions.
"Mystery Spot received lots of laughs, and the show’s comedy resonated throughout." Sacramento Press
"Mystery Spot is an entertaining, unusual play." Davis Enterprise
“Nimble satire with academic/feminist trimmings” Sacramento News & Review
"Lyons finds rich material to work with. He also has a fine eye for sexual politics as they are currently practiced." North West Entertainment News
"an enjoyable night at the theater, with laughs aplenty, food for thought and a remarkable amount of intelligent, feminist-centered dialogue." Cascadia Weekly
"It's a hoot!" Bettina Aptheker, Chair, UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies

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