An Ashkenazi guest on The Brock Battle Show tries to teach the host a Selection of Yiddish words in 42 Seconds when the focus of the audience Shifts to The Lovers fighting in the wings, one of whom exclaims Don’t Put Those in My Mouth! then promptly offers A Token of Appreciation to the bewildered host for his patience during their disruption of the show! Nonsensical non-sequitur? No! It’s time for The Studio’s annual 10-minute play festival featuring new works written and directed by Studio members! This year’s selections:
42 Seconds by Kirt Shineman
Ashkenazi by Debra Gettleman
The Brock Battle Show by Joe Bardin
Don't Put Those Words in My Mouth! by Al Benneian
The Lovers by Alan Austin
Selection by Kirt Shineman
Shifts by Tim Ashby
A Token of Appreciation by Les Leiter
Play Info:
42 Seconds by Kirt Shineman
Director: Kirt Shineman
Actors: Judy Lebeau, Trevor Penzone, Ben Rojek
42 seconds was the time it took for Travis Reinking to shoot four people in a Waffle House. Lenae, James, and his girl-friend, Bobbie-Jean, return to Waffle House to piece together, and try to make sense of, those 42 seconds.
Ashkenazi by Debra Gettleman
Director: Judy Rollings
Actors: Judith Eisenberg, Larah Pawlowski
Rival DNA testing? Just see what these two Jewesses discover in their hilarious quest for diversity.
The Brock Battle Show by Joe Bardin
Director: Susan Back
Actors: Anne Sanford, Ben Rojek, Jason Ketner
Father’s Day on this sports talk radio show turns into an exploration of masculinity and its discontents as an ex-football player tries to reach a more emotionally vulnerable state of being.
Don't Put Those Words in My Mouth! by Al Benneian
Director: Richard Powers Hardt
Actors: Sasha Wordlaw, DeAnna McMahan
Any playwright can tell you that crafting a play can be grueling. But it can be especially grueling when the lead role insists on copping an attitude with his playwright. What a character!
The Lovers by Alan Austin
Directors: Alan and Marney Austin
Actors: Trevor Penzone, Lindsay Gagnon
With so many millennial minds glued to small screens, how can they even notice an attraction to someone, much less fall in love? When a 17th century poem shakes a student out of his cell phone fog, he discovers he can suddenly see the world in a fresh light.
Selection by Kirt Shineman
Director: Kirt Shineman
Actors: Susan Sindelar, Julie Lee, Anne Sanford
A ten-minute play selection committee for a theater meets to choose their final eight plays. Three friends - who think they know each other - select plays for their festival. As the selection proceeds, the process unveils each woman’s personal bias, which tests their friendships.
Shifts by Tim Ashby
Director: Barbara Acker
Actors: Dolores D’Amore Goldsmith, Dan Peitzmeyer, Larah Pawlowski
A daughter returns from a talk with her estranged husband to find her father unable to sleep on the sofa. In the small hours of the night, the holidays sneaking up, things shift.
A Token of Appreciation by Les Leiter
Director: Mary Robinson
Actors: Marcia Weinberg, George Cohen, Dan Peitzmeyer
Sam argues with his wife Betsy whether his act of dropping a cigar in the opened coffin of his old friend Manny was a desecration or a consecration.
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Theatre Artists Studio, 4848 E. Cactus Rd, #406, Scottsdale, AZ 85254
June 14-23, 2019
Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:00 p.m.
$25 General Admission; $15 Students 25 & Under
$20 Groups of 10 or More, Seniors 65 & Over & Members of the Military
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