What motivates us to behave the way we do? How do our own needs and biases affect the ways we see each other and ourselves? These are some of the questions explored by student playwrights in four One Act plays to be performed in the second annual “The Night is Young.”
It’s All for Them
by Bailey Leeder
Directed by Diego Hernandez Romero
A humorous exploration of how parental support for their children’s achievements can go too far.
Alien’s Guide to Human Life
by Diego Hernandez Romero
Directed by Hannah Holly
A witty demonstration of how a comic encounter between a human family and beings from another world radically changes their views of themselves and each other.
Inclusion
by Sophia Del Mar
Directed by Brooke Rosenberg
This piece provides poignant insights into the lives of young people who feel lonely but find the courage to reach out to others.
Murder on the Opulent Express
by Sean Reed
Directed by Kaia Norris
A classic “Who Done It?” which follows the reporting of an investigative journalist as he interviews his fellow passengers on a train!
Cast:
Mark (It’s All for Them) Elizabeth (It’s All for Them) Olivia (It’s All for Them) Emily (It’s All for Them) Aster(Alien’s Guide to Human Life) Nadia(Alien’s Guide to Human Life) Bob(Alien’s Guide to Human Life) Alan(Alien’s Guide to Human Life) Terrence(Alien’s Guide to Human Life) Chloe(Inclusion) Amanda(Inclusion) Paisley(Inclusion) Sarah(Inclusion) Lily(Inclusion) Mary(Inclusion) Shawn(Inclusion) Claude(Inclusion) William(Inclusion)
Jagger Goulart
Emi Oswald
Ayra Khan
Alyssa Milliron
Ayra Khan
Ella Heine
Ty Menor
Jagger Goulart
Sean Reed
Sophia Del Mar
Ella Heine
Finley Cardenas
Bella Riley
Emi Oswald
Emily Keller
Math Zabonik
Ty Menor
Math Zabonik