No time to relax… I’M ON VACATION!!! Join our family vacation for 10-minute plays on our Evolving Stage.
Chance Theater and New Voices presents… Traveling Light: sevel plays about the stress of going on a relaxing vacation, including storeis about a married couple stranded on a desert island, a man late for his flight when his driver goes into labor, and a young man eho believes he is Hamlet.
Hear the stories:
Mortimer: A Texan father takeshis daugther on a vaction to NYC… One of those choice New York encounters that has thousands of easterners moving west. Is it because the Texans were miserable in the big city… or did they make such a good impression that the city folk want to join them in Texas?
Rudy in Saigon: The choices of youth are reexamined when George visits Saigon to remember his friend Rudy, who died in war. Come with us for a chilling look at the might-have-beens and what-ifs in this Twilight Zone-like encounter.
E-Z Shuttle: What happens when you’re late for your flight but your shuttle driver goes into labor? Comedy gold! Polite and refind traveler meets crude and blund driver, culminating in a roadside birth!
Gate 67: What does it means when chance encounters happen again? Follow the travellers to find out, as a newlywed couple keeps encountering the same stranger at the same gate in 3 different cities around the world!
You’re Not Hamlet: To be or not to be Hamlet… That is the question faced by Kevin, a brooding young man obsessed with Shakespeare’s tragedy. While touring a dressing room at The Globs Playhouse during a vacation in London, Kevin becomes increasingly disturbed by Barry, the pompous English professor who wants to marry his mother. Haunted by the memory of his father’s death, Kevin finds the courage to confront Barry by imagining himself as Shakespeare’s tragic prince, whose life parallels his own.
Dream Vacation: What happens when a seemingly mismatched couple goes camping in the woods? A mid-summer night’s dream, of course! Did they have the same dream of their perfect vacation in Rio… or did something else happen along the way?
Hourglass: What happens when a couple facing marital problems gets stranded on a desert island with their best friend’s luggage full of secrets to be revealed? Will the experience bring them together, or tear them apart for good?
