Productions

photos by Aaron Lam

In a metropolis where a pair of gobbling “suits” is devouring the neighborhoods, a centuries-old cathedral is awaiting its demise, and the inhabitants of an apartment building across the street are hungering...

This evening of new One Acts explores the role ‘CHANCE’ plays in our lives - chances we take that can turn our lives upside down - chance meetings that can turn our heads and hearts around. We are reminded, that chances are the unexpected will happen despite the plans we make.

When Cold War paranoia infects the owner of the general store in a small rural American enclave, he begins selling hate and fear instead of apples and conversation, digging a fallout shelter for his neighbors instead of building autumn bonfires for their revelry. At first they poke fun at the folly, but when their radios deliver the telemetric 'beep...beep' of Sputnik I, panic spreads through this community engendering deceit and divisiveness, and unraveling the fabric of its once lively spirit and accord. Who among them will be willing to surrender their minds and humanity for the promise of security in the shelter, and who will stay free of this stifling communal fear?