Summer Shorts 4
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 30, 2010
Closed Sep 2, 2010
Opened Jul 30, 2010
Closed Sep 2, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Summer Shorts returns for another summer of new American one-acts featuring original plays by the country's top playwrights. Representing some of today's best writing, directing and acting talents, Summer Shorts celebrates theatre, summer and the short form. The festival's two separate series offer a diverse range of voices, styles, and subject matter. Summer Shorts 4 offers eight world premiere one-act plays, in two separate evenings. The two series will run in rotating repertory. The New York Post declared "one-act shorts fit nicely in summer heat!"
Featured will be eight World Premieres from some of New York's finest established and emerging playwrights, including Jonathan's Blaze by Christopher Stetson Boal, directed by José Angel Santana; Play With The Penguin by Roger Hedden, directed by Billy Hopkins; The Graduation Of Grace by Wendy Kesselman, director TBA; Fit by Neil Koenigsberg, directed by Merri Milwe; Romance by Neil LaBute, directed by Dolores Rice; The Expenses Of Rain by Deb Margolin, directed by Laura Barnett; An Actor Prepares by Timothy Mason, directed by Maxwell Williams; Happy by Alan Zweibel, directed by Fred Berner.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
If the four plays now being presented at
Summer Shorts 4: Series A, now at 59E59 Theatres, are indicative of the state of new one-act works, it's sad news for audiences.
Not surprisingly, the most "interesting" offering is Neil LaBute's ironically titled Romance, in which a jilted lover returns a year after the jilting to confront his jilter. The two men (Jeff Binder and Demond Green) in this aborted same-sex relationship review the cause of their romantic demise -- habitual infidelity on the part of the jilter -- and come to a satisfactory conclusion once it's clear that what they each want from a love affair is radically opposed.
As usual, LaBute's ear for searingly convincing dialogu[...]
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David Finkle on Aug 5, 2010
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Veteran playwright and screenwriter Alan Zweibel wins best-in-show for his heartwarming comedy Happy, the second entry in
Summer Shorts 4: Series B, the mixed bag of one-acts now on view at 59E59 Theaters.
In Zweibel's piece, directed by Fred Berner, sports-paraphernalia dealer Donald Rappaport (the well-cast Scott Adsit) arrives at the Florida residence of Happy Haliday (Arthur French, equally fine), a janitor who played only 28 games with the 1961 Mets before his major-league career was halted by a wild-pitch beaning. During those few appearances, however, Happy accumulated the kind of record that had sportswriters crying "next-Willie-Mays."
The reason longtime Mets fan Donald has tra[...]