
SPF 11: One Act Plays – 8.2
July 31, 2020 10:50 pmA night of five one act plays.
A night of five one act plays.
An elderly woman messages a friend to meet her on a bench outside their retirement community for laughs and conversation. Some topics arise that by turn are funny,...
Twenty-six years after the Rwandan genocide, AGATHE is inspired by the woman who served as the country’s president for just fourteen hours and, during one of the darkest...
In 1981 Photographer Larry Sultan set out to create a portrait of his parents, Jean and Irv, tracing his family’s journey from postwar Brooklyn to California’s San Fernando...
While getting ready for a college Halloween party, a young couple’s night takes a turn when Paul reveals to his girlfriend Kara that he has testicular cancer, and...
In the city of Reykjavík, we eavesdrop on the intertwined lives of lovers, hospitality workers, partygoers, and even a really handsome bird or two. This frank exploration of...
On the lower east side of Manhattan, in a place called “Phil’s Typewriter Repair and Manuscript Shop,” three friends desperately try to communicate their love and dreams to...
Nathan Spandrel is searching for his “Gift from God” promised to him by his fifth-grade teacher. When he finds it, the miracle of his life unfolds before us....
A Mislaid Heaven takes place in a small fishing village on the Western coast of Ireland in 1921, during the chaotic months before the signing of the controversial...
This portrait of the explosive and rapid rise of black market profiteering told via one family, the Jovines.
The framework of this spine-tingler is unusual: a lawyer hires an actor to tutor him in recounting to family and friends a story that has long troubled him...
The story of two American couples that get caught in a chronological palindrome on a trip to Italy. Margaret, a nun, falls in love with Philip, a married...
A man with a flair for telling stories describes the very first time he heard the classic Dickens tale; as a child growing up in a camp of...
For better or worse, in sickness and in health and back again, Michael and Gen dance their way through the Greatest Generation of war and peace, fame and...
Swimming is a modern-day cautionary tale of the destructive power of a lie. Set in rural Kansas, David nad Denise meet, fall in love, and marry. But 10...
A cutting-edge theatrical event written by eight members of the Dog Ear Playwrights.
A dark and wildly funny portrait of death, neglect, hunger, rage, yearning, war, and car accidents. Big Death & Little Death is an apocalyptic fairy tale that promises...
Evvie is the smart one and Kathleen is the pretty one in this classic sisterly symbiosis set in rural Ireland in the 1950s.
Madagascaris the haunting story of a mysterious disappearance that changes three lives forever. Three Americans — at three different times — find themselves alone, in the same hotel...
Can love get past your past?
Sex, drugs, death, and a clown… the perfect family reunion.
Can lost time ever be found?
This is a dark urban fairy tale about three cast out teens and the flip side of the American dream. Franklin, Breezy, JJ. Kicked out for being gay,...
Birder follows middle-aged accountant Roger, who, upon discovering a house finch nesting outside his home in Los Feliz, finds himself forced to question his most basic assumptions about...
Recovering alcoholic John Owens was estranged from his family for decades before his son, a Marine, was killed in Afghanistan. Now, six years later, he receives an invitation...
Equally hilarious and frightening, Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby is a darkly comic dramatic fable by Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright Edward Albee. A young couple, madly in...
Ray, a white financial manager from an affluent neighborhood, has a loving wife and a liberal family. Shatique is a black nursing student and single mom from the...
Having braved a perilous journey to escape a violent husband and a volatile political climate in her native Haiti, Sula is determined to find a better life in...
After 14 years in prison for a crime he swears he didn’t commit, Chick returns home to find his flat-broke family under the thumb of his dangerous Uncle...
In this scathingly funny look at a family in crisis, the Lyons family is falling apart just when they need to pull together. Rita Lyons, in a heroic...
A family in Dallas may or may not have a talking mongoose named Jeff living in their walls. When Mom goes missing, Dad brings home strange men, and...
In a neighborhood on Chicago’s deep West Side, the momentum of gentrification has taken hold and things have begun to change forever. As property taxes rise and demographics...