One Acts: Lineup

Power Line

Graphics of a retro mystery block and a ringing phone. Taken from the One Act Play Festival poster and edited to be enlarged. (Iliana Vega)

DIRECTED BY: Tyson Johnson, 12th.

DATES: 3/27 & 3/28 at 7PM.

SYNOPSIS: Gilbert and Joanna, a married couple and parents, tell the story of their relationship – starting from where they met, and how they ended up together. This story includes a cast of quirky characters, and mentions of retro video games.

EXCITED FOR: There are many scenes Johnson is proud of directing, and he hopes the audience will find them as funny as he does.

SEE IT: “...If you're looking for something to laugh at. Definitely if people know about retro video games, it's also kind of fun… It's just very funny [and] quirky,” Johnson says.

The Case of Alex Hansen

Graphic of an all red window, glowing with red light. Taken from the One Act Play Festival poster and edited to be enlarged. (Iliana Vega)

DIRECTED BY: Anika Roddy, 12th.

DATES: 3/28 & 3/29 at 7PM.

SYNOPSIS: Teenager Alex Hansen wakes up to find himself in a jail cell, with no recollection of how he got there. He’s suddenly thrust into court for a trial, provided with a lawyer to defend his case. Everyone seems like they’re out to get him, and Alex can’t figure out why – or what his crime was in the first place.

EXCITED FOR: Paying attention to the smaller details of the production, such as the lighting – and the scrim.

SEE IT: “I personally really like One Acts where I have to really focus on details and think about what the characters are saying. I also like technical aspects of shows, like the lighting and the sound, and I think that my show incorporates that a lot and makes it really mysterious. I just think … It's funny sometimes, but also - what grabs the audience is hopefully gonna be the mysterious aspect of it and the fact that it's thought-provoking,” Roddy says.

Feed the Whales (The Saga of the Boy Band: Oreo)

Graphic of hand doing the “devil horns” hand gesture, and a wave of colors (black, white, blue, red, respectively) on the lower left. Taken from the One Act Play Festival poster and edited to be enlarged.

DIRECTED BY: Elena Lozada, 12th.

DATES: 3/27 & 3/29 at 7PM.

SYNOPSIS: Dr. Bliss is a tour promoter in the Southern town of Askalooza, Alabama, which suffers from little diversity of talent. Unexpectedly, Bliss is recruited to secure an opening band for a local festival titled “Feed the Whales.” In his efforts to do this, he brings together an unlikely group of people, who eventually end up forming the boy band Oreo.

EXCITED FOR: The fan girls, who are very rowdy and crazy, as well as the character Inga, who is similarly crazy but in a bit of a different ways.

SEE IT: “[With] every part of the show… We were laughing; it is one of the funniest shows I've ever read. Even though it's my show, and I picked it out, the guy who wrote it is really good at writing comedies,” Lozada says.

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