The Dorset Players’ Sixth Annual One-Act Play Festival featured performances of three plays at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 3 and again on Saturday, April 4. Each season, the One-Act Play Festival affords directors and actors an opportunity to spread their wings in a shorter format.
Making her directorial debut was Christy Vogel, who presented "Anything for You" by playwright Cathy Celesia. Set in a restaurant, the ten-minute play, which featured Anastasia Satterthwaite and Jessica Zilske, offered theatregoers a new twist on the ladies who lunch.
Veteran director Richard Maiori returned to direct "Oh, Susannah." This moving, two-person piece by playwright Janet S. Tiger, which ran just over fifteen minutes, concerned a woman who returns from her husband’s funeral to find a suitor at her doorstep. Erik Barnum portrayed the Russian suitor and Tracy Hughes played the object of his affection.
Each evening, proudly sponsored by Express Copy, concluded with a performance of "The Whole Shebang," a very funny, six-character play by playwright Rich Orloff. It was premised upon the following: what if the heavens and the universe were just some graduate student’s science project? The cast included Ron Nagle, Debbie Goldman, Dom Degnon, Molly Nawrath, Jennifer Lalli, and Ed Cobb.
The 6th Annual
One-Act Play Festival
Dorset Players, Inc.
at the Dorset Playhouse
Quality community theatre since 1927
