Mon, Oct 21
|Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
2024 One Act Double Feature
Join us for our second annual One Act Double Feature, where we feature two new one act plays and pull back the curtain to invite the audience into the creative process!
Time & Location
Oct 21, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mt Adams Cir, Cincinnati, OH 45202, USA
About the event
The Ghostlight Stage Company is delighted to bring back our One Act Double Feature event for our 24/25 season, after it's successful first iteration in our 23/24 season!
More about the event: The Ghostlight's One Act Double Feature gives the audience a look "behind the curtain" and into the process-side of developing 2 new one-act plays. Leading up to the event, casts and creative teams are given 4 brief rehearsals to further develop and rehearse the plays. After these few rehearsals, plays are performed in front of an audience! In addition to having these plays in staged-reading format with light staging and some props/minimal costuming, audiences can take a look into the visions for how the pieces could be if they were to go on and be fully developed in the future. We do this by having design presentations from professional set and costume designers available in a studio space for audiences to ask questions about and view before the performance and during intermission. Each performance also begins and ends with brief commentary from the playwrights and directors of each piece, who give the audience even more insight as to the process of developing the work, their vision for what's to come and their motivation for creating the piece in the first place.
The Ghostlight Stage Company's 2024 One Act Double Feature will feature Esther Made Me Do It by Nell Adkins and Elizabeth Sacktor, and Artists & Vandals by Erin K. Considine. Seating will be limited so make sure to reserve in advance. More information about casting and creative teams coming soon.
Artists & Vandals synopsis: After years of odd jobs and struggling to make ends meet, Lyla and Knox are opening their own Art Gallery to critical acclaim and personal pride. They have parented a son and parented each other. Nothing could ruin this night. Nothing but Daniel: who disappeared fifteen years ago, and is now standing in the shadows under the L.
Esther Made Me Do It synopsis: Best friends, Naomi and Ruth, are preparing to audition for their local Purim shpiel. Naomi, gunning for the part of Esther, hopes to kick start her theatrical career. Ruth questions her feelings for Naomi and how long she’s willing to put Naomi’s desires before her own.