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 THE 11TH ANNUAL
FESTIVAL OF ONE-ACT PLAYS
ON THE SECOND STAGE

Theatre Three presents the 11th Annual Festival of One-Act Plays which opens on March 2 for a 10-performance run. As always, the evening offers a diverse and unusual range of works to entertain, to intrigue, and to fascinate.

Over the past 10 seasons, the Festival has presented over 50 premieres of plays submitted from across the world. This year, five have been selected from some 650 submissions:  Cast of Characters by Philip Dawkins; The Insured by Sandra Hosking; A Matter of Days by Dennis Jones; The Play About the Menu at Simon's Coffee Shop by D.T. Arcieri; and Rats by Shaun Raviv.

The dozen actors who make up this year's company include returning performers Steve Ayle, Dana Bush, Heath Cohen, Lois Goelz, Jim Lingner, Linda May, and Festival veteran Brian Smith, who has appeared in eight previous Festivals and 18 plays. They will be joined by Michael Butera, Bob Lingner, Sara Suvak, Sophie Vanier, and, in his Theatre Three debut, Stephen Wangner. The evening is directed by
Executive Artistic Director Jeffrey Sanzel (who has directed nine out of the
10 previous Festivals) and original music is being composed by Jennifer Testa, whose work has included four previous Festivals. The evening will be
stage managed by Maureen Spanos.

Cast of Characters is a pointed look at familial relationships, focusing on three sisters and their mother's 80th birthday party. The entire company takes part in this highly theatrical and truly unique exploration. The Insured is a hilariously scathing look at our country's deteriorating state of health insurance, and features Bush, Butera, and Jim Lingner. A Matter of Days is a haunting presentation of various stages of a marriage in a single day – or is it? Heading the piece is May along with Jim and Bob Lingner, Butera, and Smith. The Play About the Menu at Simon's Coffee Shop follows the complicated machinations of relationships and a look at life's basic needs, with Ayle, Cohen, Suvak, and Vanier. (Author Arcieri's play, Norman, was the first piece ever presented in our One-Act Festival.) Rats is an outrageous send-up of political correctness as two rodents (Smith and Wangner) negotiate over a piece of cheese.

Please note that the performance dates are sporadic: