Shortened Attention Span One Act Festival at the Players Theatre Loft

The first Shortened Attention Span One Act Festival will present twenty shows under twenty minutes by 18 different authors presented over four weeks at the Players Theatre Loft from 14 Jun - 8 Jul 2007.

Every performance will include 5 plays (see schedule below). Each play will be seen 5 times during the Festival. Every week the audience favorite will receive a $100 prize.

Festival producers Rivieccio and Benanti said: "We felt that the short form is greatly under represented, especially in the summer theatre festivals in NYC, so we decided to create a festival that celebrates the short play. Our shows cover a wide range of topics from romance stories to diva penguins to war plays to talking sirloins. We wanted a little of every type of genre to be represented in the Festival."�

The performance schedule for the Shortened Attention Span One Act Festival is:

Week 1: 13 - 17 Jun

• Theatre Ghostby Mim Granahan
• Life in E Sharp by Jonathan G. Galvez
• Girl Hates Cabs by Warren Schultz
• Feed Me What I Drink by Ian Grody
• Yes Before Goodbye by Dan Chen

Week 2: 20 - 24 Jun

• The Titanic Trivia Game by Lisa Haeber
• Looking for Love by J. Boyer
• The Solution by Stewart Rudy and Julia Susman
• Tenacity by Scott T. Barsotti
• Pending

Week 3: 27 Jun - 1 Jul

• Death and Deception by Catherine Lamm
• Sunday Kind of Love by Concetta Rose Rella
• The Café by Kyle Bradstreet
• Rich On Skins by Joe Lauinger
• Penguins Are Mad Scary by Michael Tester

Week 4: 2 - 8 Jul

• Plays for the Sunni Triangle Parts 1 and 2 by Jerrod Bogard
• Plays for the Sunni Triangle Part 3 by Jerrod Bogard
• Little Squirrel by Caroline McGraw
• Sirloins in Space by Joel Hanson
• Beer and the Meaning of Life by Carlo Rivieccio