Winter One Acts Festival - Georgetown Day School

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Two students on stage — Winter

One Acts Festival

The One Acts Festival offers upwards of 30 acting opportunities and countless design and admin responsibilities—and it’s all student-directed and -managed. This is a great way to get your feet wet, flex your muscles, run it up the flagpole, and try theater on for size!

Each performance will feature all seven shows. Runtime is 2 hours and 15 minutes, including intermission.

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Act I
Content suitable for all ages.

Arabian Nights

By David Ives
Directed by: Margaret Tilmes
Stage Manager: Hannah Sanghvi
Cast: Anjali Bose, Mateo Brown, Eli Faber

Welcome to the most exciting shop in all of the kingdom! Or at least that is what the interpreter thinks as he leads the utterly normal, corporate businessman Norman into utterly ordinary Flora's shop looking for a souvenir of his travels. Things quickly get lost in translation, and soon Flora thinks that Norman is the merchant prince of Arabia. Join the trio as they explore the wares in Flora’s shop, lament their fate, and find whirlwind romance. And well… it’s quite the adventure.

The Role of Della

By John Wooten
Directed by: Bill George
Stage Manager: Jaia Wilensky
Cast: Asta Jorgensen, Susan Lin, Felicia Paul

An eager young actress has her eye set on the role of Della, but can she convince a cold, sarcastic director that she's right for the part? A riveting and riotous look at the contemporary audition process, giving new meaning to the expression "stealing a scene."

Flop Cop

By Laura Cunningham
Directed by: Gari Puckrein
Stage Manager: Meyer Leff
Cast: Aidan '22, Pablo O'Hop

Flop Cop is a fun little show that incorporates everything you could want: masculinity, death, and a real working typewriter. It is an interaction between a miserable playwright and the police officer who is attempting to apprehend him before his work can hit the market. Flop Cop is an absurd short. Disclosure: There are mimicked gun shots.

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls

By Christopher Durang
Directed by: Jim Mahady
Cast: Edie Carey, Jacob Getlan, Lauren Petrilla, Jonathan Korns

In this parody of The Glass Menagerie, fading southern belle Amanda tries to prepare her hyper-sensitive son, Lawrence, for “the feminine caller.” Terrified of people, Lawrence plays with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers. Ginny, the feminine caller, is hard of hearing and overbearingly friendly. Brother Tom wants to go to the movies, where he keeps meeting sailors who need to be put up in his room. Amanda tries to face everything with “charm and vivacity,” but sometimes she just wants to hit somebody.

Act II
Content suitable for high school students and older.

Nested

By Sasha Freedman
Directed by: Sasha Freedman & Emily Axelrod
Stage Manager: Julia Pastreich
Cast: Glace Qiao, Lily Singh, Berret Yuffee

Inspired by Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel, Nested was written by Sasha Freedman as an assignment in her Contemporary Women's Literature class this year. The play works to subvert the typical Aristotelian play structure and to represent the complications of female friendships. The setting of this play in the locker room is intrinsic to understanding the complexities of femininity. It is impossible to separate locker rooms from (1) judgment about female appearances and actions, (2) eating disorders and body dysmorphia, (3) homophobia and stereotypes about sexuality in locker rooms, (4) vulnerability in nakedness, and (5) the safety of an all-female space in a co-ed school. The characters are intentionally written to be complex and confusing, who struggle throughout the play and do not magically arrive at some “solution” or amazing character development by the end. The play also intentionally doesn’t end with a resolution, but rather a deepening of the connections between female characters. If the play was written with answers or justice in the end, it would be falsely representing the reality of what it means to present as female.

The Sandalwood Box

By Mac Wellman
Directed by: William FitzGerald
Stage Manager: Noah Braun
Cast: Ava Blum, Nava Mach, Jacqueline Metzger-Taylor, Elliot Oppenheim,
Tayae Rogers, Caleigh Vergeer

Student Marsha Gates has lost her voice to the great Unseen, but on her way to speech therapy, she becomes entangled with Prof. Claudia Marshall, a mysterious collector of catastrophes. This surreal and unsettling short explores themes of trauma and violence inside a fantastical world that is at once familiar and strange.

The Mystery at Twicknam Village

By David Ives
Directed by: Gigi Silla
Stage Manager: Julia Hay
Cast: Wesley Brubaker, Mihir Kesavan, Stella Tongour, Ethan Wolin, CK Zaki

To be read in a British accent: It is just another ordinary evening at the Thumpington-Fffienes residence of Twicknam Vicarage. Mona and Jeremy are hosting one of their splendid, legendary dinner parties when suddenly, in the middle of cocktails, on Mona’s beautiful carpet, there is… a shooting accident. Or is it just a shooting accident? Could it be… could it be… murder? (Murder? Murder? Gasp!) Join these five eccentric characters on their quest to uncover the trooth, the fyects, the trooth about the afterlife and the fyects about those infamous cheese things.