Beyond Encounters: An Evening of Three One-Act Plays

Three one-act plays by Hannah Benitez*+, Miriam Kulick*+ and Lanford Wilson, which explore the unexpected ways people meet each other and themselves. Starring Jacob Harran* and Miriam Kulick*+, with cello and violin performed by Susan Mitchell, the production is directed by Lorca Peress*^. Lanford Wilson’s rarely-staged A Betrothal is followed by two new works by up-and-coming female playwrights: Bound by Miriam Kulick, and The Call by Hannah Benitez. Together, the three plays create a compact, character-driven theatrical event that moves from a witty comic encounter between strangers, to heightened historical drama, to 1920s noir cosmic horror. It is designed as an intimate theatrical presentation with a minimal set and a focus on performance, language, and atmosphere. “This evening is about more than encounters,” said playwright & performer Miriam Kulick. “It is about the ways people meet across time, conflict, desire, and identity, and how those meetings can change everything.”