A One-Acts Festival
Friday, May 10 & Saturday, May 11 at 8 PM
Sunday, May 12 at 2 PM
Friday, May 17 & Saturday, May 18 at 8 PM
Greenbelt Arts Center – 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, MD
The Insect
by Claudia Bach, directed by Joshua Engel
DC area premiere. Cleo and Hattie have lived together simply forever. Hattie is a homebody with a passion for encyclopedias. Cleo has had unbelievably extraordinary adventures. When Hattie has a close encounter with a mysterious bug, these two very different women find out what it means to live with the clock ticking down. Find more plays from Claudia Bach at claudiahbach.com/playwright/.
A Twist of Rotten Silk, or Coriolanus and Aufidius at Antium
by William Shakespeare and Nahum Tate, directed by Jaki Demarest
Here’s a reimagining of “Coriolanus” in the style of Nahum Tate, the original Shakespeare fanficcer in whose adaptation of “King Lear,” everyone lives, and happily ever after at that. What if the most doomed of all of Shakespeare’s doomed bromances actually managed to end happily, and now Coriolanus and Aufidius are an old married couple cleaning up for a party at their house in Antium, and reminiscing over battles won and lost? Every line is Shakespeare, but with a twist of Tate’s wishful thinking. The fan service the Rudes have wanted for 25 years!
Friar Laurence’s Apothecary
by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Liana Olear
Shakespeare’s heroines have problems: the Evil Queen from “Cymbeline” has throne inheritance machinations easiest resolved by judicious application of poison, Hero from “Much Ado About Nothing” has been left at the altar for alleged unfaithfulness, and Juliet is being made to marry the wrong man. Friar Laurence, a skilled herbalist and confidant to all, knows just the answer.
Shakespoems
by William Shakespeare, directed and conducted by Sean Eustis
Readings of William Shakespeare’s three shortest narrative poems (“The Phoenix and the Turtle”, “The Lover’s Complaint” and “The Pilgrim’s Passion”), accompanied by pantomime shadow players and BardCore musicians.
The Rude Mechanicals 