It's Just Ten Minutes ... A Festival

You can’t go very far in just ten minutes. We’ll take that challenge! Old Courthouse Theatre will offer its Ten-Minute Play Festival on June 4-6 at 7:30pm and June 7 at 2:30pm and endeavor to take you from a church basement, to a waiting room, to an airport…and many other points of interest! A quick re-cap for people who haven’t yet experienced this fast-paced event: Eight playwrights have created eight ten-minute stories. Eight directors have envisioned how to tell these eight stories. Twenty-two characters will come to life with the skill and talent of sixteen actors to embody these eight stories. Our audiences will get four chances to experience these eight stories, all in one event, for the low price of $15.

Now in its 15th season, the ten-minute play festival at OCT is a celebration of local talents: playwrights, directors, actors, and crew. It is a labor of love: ALL people connected to and working on the festival are volunteers, investing time and talent to support our theatre. It also serves as a fund-raiser for the theatre. ALL proceeds from the festival (except a small stipend we pay to reward the skill of the writers) go directly to support the myriad projects OCT is tackling, from producing plays to maintaining its 100-year-old building.

Andy Rassler is the initiator and coordinator of this event, and this year she is joined by veteran directors Denise McKercher, Jonathan Ewart, and May May. In the true spirit of inviting new talent, they are joined this year by new (to OCT) directors Frank Sesta, Paul Kelley, Chris Ortiz Lopez, Freddie Harward, and Chandler Smith. Our team of actors includes: Nick Asa, Jerry Cardenas, Ciel Davis, Soliel Davis, Kelly Durden, Tabatha Johnson, Jean Kadela, Jon Kadela, Denise McKercher, Victoria Powell, Andy Rassler, Tee Sampson, Linda Smith, Melissa Stevens, Devan Thomas, Tiffany Trudewind, and Roger Watson.

Our line-up this year includes:

The Best Is Yet To Come by Judy Dove

Delayed Departure by Pam Newcomer

Everything In Between by John Mabey

50 Percent Chance by Kara Barnette

Fifty Signs by Connie Dinkler

A Golden Anniversary by Nicole Panteleakos

The Holey Spirit by Ashade Altine

Parting by Nicole Cunningham

Tickets are available at www.octconcord.com or 704.788.2405.

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