The 2025 Off Broad Street Short Play Festival (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781964045092)

The 2025 Off Broad Street Short Play Festival took place in April 2024 at Le Chat Noir Theatre in Augusta, GA. From a total of 250 submissions around the world, the 9 plays within this anthology were the top plays selected to be produced in the festival.

Plays included -

GROWN-UP STUFF by D. L. Siegel

Ru and Cal are appalled when their biracial, Jewish daughter comes home from school with a swastika drawn on her backpack. But they are forced to confront failures of their own parenting when they realize she drew it herself.

HATE YOU TOO, IRENE by Bret Carson

An old woman calls her former paper boy to tell him how much she hates him for killing her dog. And this isn't the first time she's called him to tell him this. How long has this been going on? And did he really kill her dog?

LIVING DOLL by David Golden

Pitching the latest installment of his horror movie franchise, a writer finds he has a lot more to deal with than an enthusiastic studio exec.

OH NO! I FLEW TO CLOSE TO THE SUN by Rand Higbee

It is Rome in 120 A.D. Festus is quite excited when he learns that he has been cast in the role of Icarus in a performance at the Colosseum. However, his enthusiasm quickly wanes when stage workers Sabina and Brutus gradually fill him in as to what exactly the role requires.

SCHRODINGER'S GUN by Greg A. Smith

Roland, a nervous white trainee Police Officer, sits across from Freeman, a black man. With a briefcase sat between them, Roland is told that if there's a gun in the case, Freeman will shoot him, before Freeman repeatedly asserts that there is no weapon. As Freeman slowly opens the case, Roland is caught in a tense dilemma between trusting Freeman's word, and protecting his own life.

SCRIPTED by Mark Harvey Levine

A couple wakes up to find the script of the play that they are in -- the very play we're watching. Everything they do, every word they're about to say has already been written down for them.

THE ISABEL SANCHEZ MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROUDLY PRESENTS ITS (FIRST) ANNUAL TALENT SHOW! by Katelin Wilcox

Harper's new to the neighborhood and has big dreams for her daughter's school - a talent show extravaganza to close out the year! Juliana's lived here her whole life and is more concerned with outdated textbooks and overcrowding. Biases and resentment bubble to the surface when "doing something nice" starts to sound an awful lot like "taking over."

THE RIPPLE EFFECT by Arianna Rose

Amy and Jeff have unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant. As they wait for the pregnancy test to give them an answer, they discuss all sorts of unorthodox fertilization rituals and the larger questions a negative result will bring.