Join us for our 2nd Annual Off Broad Street Short Play Festival at Le Chat Noir! Featuring 8 short plays written by playwrights around the world for a full night of live theatre!

THE PLAYS –
GROWN-UP STUFF by D. L. Siegel
Directed by Tommy Cooper
Cast – A.C. Daniel & Madison Junod
Ru and Cal are appalled when their biracial, Jewish daughter comes home from school with a swastika drawn on her backpack. But they are forced to confront failures of their own parenting when they realize she drew it herself.

HATE YOU TOO, IRENE by Bret Carson
Directed by Amy Patton
Cast- Wesley Pierson & Kitty Reagan
An old woman calls her former paper boy to tell him how much she hates him for killing her dog. And this isn’t the first time she’s called him to tell him this. How long has this been going on? And did he really kill her dog?

LIVING DOLL by David Golden
Directed by Tommy Cooper
Cast – Eric Odom & Jessica Mousley
Pitching the latest installment of his horror movie franchise, a writer finds he has a lot more to deal with than an enthusiastic studio exec.

OH NO! I FLEW TO CLOSE TO THE SUN by Rand Higbee
Directed by Amy Patton
Cast- Andy Middleton, Lillie Delecuona, & Madison Junod
It is Rome in 120 A.D. Festus is quite excited when he learns that he has been cast in the role of Icarus in a performance at the Colosseum. However, his enthusiasm quickly wanes when stage workers Sabina and Brutus gradually fill him in as to what exactly the role requires.

SCHRODINGER’S GUN by Greg A. Smith
Directed by Jonathan Cook
Cast – TJ McSherry, Paris Pringle, & Sean Moton
Roland, a nervous white trainee Police Officer, sits across from Freeman, a black man. With a briefcase sat between them, Roland is told that if there’s a gun in the case, Freeman will shoot him, before Freeman repeatedly asserts that there is no weapon. As Freeman slowly opens the case, Roland is caught in a tense dilemma between trusting Freeman’s word, and protecting his own life.

SCRIPTED by Mark Harvey Levine
Directed by Jonathan Cook
Cast – Eric Odom & Dorothy Christopher
A couple wakes up to find the script of the play that they are in — the very play we’re watching. Everything they do, every word they’re about to say has already been written down for them.

THE ISABEL SANCHEZ MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROUDLY PRESENTS ITS (FIRST) ANNUAL TALENT SHOW! by Katelin Wilcox
Directed by Aspen Swanson
Cast- Lillie Delecuona & Arelis Rivera
Harper’s new to the neighborhood and has big dreams for her daughter’s school – a talent show extravaganza to close out the year! Juliana’s lived here her whole life and is more concerned with outdated textbooks and overcrowding. Biases and resentment bubble to the surface when “doing something nice” starts to sound an awful lot like “taking over.”

THE RIPPLE EFFECT by Arianna Rose
Directed by Aspen Swanson
Cast – TJ McSherry & Paris Pringle
Will pregnancy elude them again? Amy tries to get Jeff on board with some unorthodox fertilization rituals.