Night of One Acts (Jan 12)

LTA Night of One Act Plays 
from LTA's 2024 & 2025 One Act Play Competitions

Monday, January 12 – in the Green Room

Scenes From an Apocalypse written by Germaine Shames
Arlene Abelman — wife, mother, and theatre director — braces for her 60th birthday amid a gathering apocalypse. An intimate slice-of-life portrait of a woman grappling for a toehold in an era of accelerating flux and burgeoning ambiguity.

Close Your Eyes written by Andy Levine
As an autistic child enters his teenage years and becomes stronger and more difficult to control, a family struggles with the decision to institutionalize him. The play largely takes place in the late 1960s and is told from the perspective of the family – the parents and a brother and sister.

Blessed Thorn: The Excommunication of Baruch Spinoza 
written by Ron Rosenfeld
In 1656, 23 year-old Baruch Spinoza was excommunicated for life by the Jewish congregation in Amsterdam, the harshest punishment ever meted at that time. He is confronted by his half-sister, Rebekah, and his younger brother, Gabriel, who, by the terms of the edict, will never again be able to speak with him.