The Ground & Field Theatre Festival at UC Davis introduces new works for the stage. Mark Rigney’s Summertime tracks an upper middle-class clan dealing with an impending political crisis in which the U.S. Congress outlaws both medicine and medical practitioners in order to handle a burgeoning population crisis.

Daisy Violet the Bitch Beast King, a dark comedy by Sam Collier, centers on young sisters Josephine and Henrietta who create a new sister and their creation is monstrous, violent, and embodies everything they’ve dreamed of: the rage of children, the fury of girls.