Performance for Sat, Oct 30, 2021 has been canceled.
Scharf's Schorts . . . an evening of 8 short plays!
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OUR CAST
Monument: Nick Cherone & Sean Eustis Like White on Rice: Beverly Shannon, Mike Papa, & Nick Cherone Our Place: Glen Charlow & Terri Laurino Wilderness: Sam David & Glen Charlow Replay: Mike Papa & Sean Eustis Off the Grid: Terri Laurino & Sam David Making Time: Terri Laurino & Nick Cherone The Last Ten: Beverly Shannon & Sean Eustis 
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written by Mark Scharf
directed by Erin Klarner and Jen Sizer stage managed by Paul Saar Performance Dates: Fri: Oct 22, 29 - 8:00pm Sat: Oct 23 - 8:00pm Nov 6 - 2:00pm Sun: Oct 24, 31, Nov 7 - 2:00pm Performance for Sat, Oct 30, 2021 has been canceled. |
Design Team
Set Design/Build/Paint: Alan Zemla & Stephen Foreman Lighting Design: Fuzz Roark Sound Design: Paul Saar Costumes: Erin Klarner, Jen Sizer & Cast |
Monument
What are the things one leaves behind that matter? How much of what we do is part of us? In MONUMENT, a conversation between a roofer with a personality on overdrive and a circumspect writer reveals that the strength of the human connection creates a monument as strong as any work man can craft. Funny, bewildering and crystal clear, MONUMENT is a snapshot of our yearning to understand and be understood -- to do right by each other and to be right with ourselves.
Our Place
Almost every couple has that special restaurant, bar, hotel, cabin-in-the-woods or even an open field that they think of as 'our place'. Throughout their long years together, Vince and Christine’s place has been their unostentatious neighborhood restaurant with its friendly faces and good comfort food served in familiar surroundings. But now, Vince’s mind has begun to fail and it seems Christine must remember for two. Can a return visit awaken Vince to all that binds them together? Our Place is a gentle, bittersweet play about the eternal strength and perseverance of love.
Like White on Rice --
A 10-minute play written entirely in clichés, it uses everything from worn-out pick-up lines ("What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?") to threadbare quotations from sources as wide-ranging as Alcoholics Anonymous and Shakespeare to establish a fleeting romantic triangle between a young woman in a bar and two men competing to pick her up.
Wilderness
Killer rabbits in the suburbs must be stopped! In this bittersweet and poignant comedy, recently widowed Spencer faces the lawnmower police and wrath of her neighbors when she decides to let nature take its course with her yard. Just where does the reach of your arm end and the beginning of your neighbor’s nose begin?
Replay
Every night at 4:30 a.m., Josh awakens to find Lee silently watching and waiting for another chance to replay how a promising relationship ended stillborn in pride, misunderstanding and miscommunication. As the play unfolds, we come to question if Lee’s visits are real or if they are only replaying in Josh’s head. Replay is about the journey from regret and remorse to redemption in our shared struggle to connect to another human being before it’s too late.
Off the Grid
Catherine has a good job, money, food, clothes and a roof over her head; she can take care of herself and can't imagine it being otherwise. Maddie, who had a job, a house, a car, and a cat, is homeless; her job and her money are gone and she knows all too well how easy it is to end up on the street. She sits quietly at the entrance to a metro station in Washington, D.C. seeking spare change and is invisible to most who pass by on their way into or out of the station, including Catherine – until one day... Off the Grid addresses living without a net in America and our responsibility to one another.
Making Time
Making Time portrays our inability to face, even name, anything uncomfortable and how perception expressed through language is everything -- and that has little to do the truth. And yet, it’s through language that we try to connect. The play is about establishing that connection whether you want to or not.
The Last Ten
Nuclear Missiles have been launched and there are only ten minutes left before they hit! How much living can you do in ten minutes? While Peggy is sanguine about their approaching doom, George desperately tries make their final moments together count. Will they find a shared peace before it’s too late? In a funny yet piquant journey of love and understanding, Peggy and George learn what really matters as they face their final challenge together.
What are the things one leaves behind that matter? How much of what we do is part of us? In MONUMENT, a conversation between a roofer with a personality on overdrive and a circumspect writer reveals that the strength of the human connection creates a monument as strong as any work man can craft. Funny, bewildering and crystal clear, MONUMENT is a snapshot of our yearning to understand and be understood -- to do right by each other and to be right with ourselves.
Our Place
Almost every couple has that special restaurant, bar, hotel, cabin-in-the-woods or even an open field that they think of as 'our place'. Throughout their long years together, Vince and Christine’s place has been their unostentatious neighborhood restaurant with its friendly faces and good comfort food served in familiar surroundings. But now, Vince’s mind has begun to fail and it seems Christine must remember for two. Can a return visit awaken Vince to all that binds them together? Our Place is a gentle, bittersweet play about the eternal strength and perseverance of love.
Like White on Rice --
A 10-minute play written entirely in clichés, it uses everything from worn-out pick-up lines ("What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?") to threadbare quotations from sources as wide-ranging as Alcoholics Anonymous and Shakespeare to establish a fleeting romantic triangle between a young woman in a bar and two men competing to pick her up.
Wilderness
Killer rabbits in the suburbs must be stopped! In this bittersweet and poignant comedy, recently widowed Spencer faces the lawnmower police and wrath of her neighbors when she decides to let nature take its course with her yard. Just where does the reach of your arm end and the beginning of your neighbor’s nose begin?
Replay
Every night at 4:30 a.m., Josh awakens to find Lee silently watching and waiting for another chance to replay how a promising relationship ended stillborn in pride, misunderstanding and miscommunication. As the play unfolds, we come to question if Lee’s visits are real or if they are only replaying in Josh’s head. Replay is about the journey from regret and remorse to redemption in our shared struggle to connect to another human being before it’s too late.
Off the Grid
Catherine has a good job, money, food, clothes and a roof over her head; she can take care of herself and can't imagine it being otherwise. Maddie, who had a job, a house, a car, and a cat, is homeless; her job and her money are gone and she knows all too well how easy it is to end up on the street. She sits quietly at the entrance to a metro station in Washington, D.C. seeking spare change and is invisible to most who pass by on their way into or out of the station, including Catherine – until one day... Off the Grid addresses living without a net in America and our responsibility to one another.
Making Time
Making Time portrays our inability to face, even name, anything uncomfortable and how perception expressed through language is everything -- and that has little to do the truth. And yet, it’s through language that we try to connect. The play is about establishing that connection whether you want to or not.
The Last Ten
Nuclear Missiles have been launched and there are only ten minutes left before they hit! How much living can you do in ten minutes? While Peggy is sanguine about their approaching doom, George desperately tries make their final moments together count. Will they find a shared peace before it’s too late? In a funny yet piquant journey of love and understanding, Peggy and George learn what really matters as they face their final challenge together.
Production Photos
Photo Credit: Spotlighters Theatre / Eduard Van Osterom
Photo Credit: Spotlighters Theatre / Eduard Van Osterom
