

Blackbox Teens Shows 2023
Truly Talented Kids
February 10 at 7:00PM
NEXT ON STAGE:

The Conflict by Wade Bradford
Directed by Maddie Cook
A very amusing explanation of how we crave stories in which the protagonist experiences all kinds of hardship. Conflict won the “Page to Stages” competition at the Repertory East Playhouse in Santa Clarita, CA.
An Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang
Directed by Jade Doucette
Having casually wandered onstage, George is informed that one of the actors, Eddie, has been in an auto accident and he must replace him immediately. Apparently no one is sure of what play is being performed but George (costumed as Hamlet) seems to find himself in the middle of a scene from Private Lives, surrounded by such luminaries as Sarah Siddons, Dame Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. As he fumbles through one missed cue after another the other actors shift to Hamlet, then a play by Samuel Beckett, and then a climactic scene from what might well be A Man for All Seasons—by which time the disconcerted George has lost all sense of contact with his fellow performers. Yet, in the closing moments of the play, he rises to the occasion and finally says the right lines, whereupon make-believe suddenly gives way to reality as the executioner’s axe (meant for Sir Thomas Moore) instead sends poor George to oblivion—denying him a well-earned curtain call.