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2004 NVTA One-Act Play Festival
23rd Annual Festival
 | Festival Dates: June 18, 19, 25, 26 2004 |
| Award Ceremony: Sunday, June 27, 2004
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| The festival is produced at the
Reston Community Center
2310 Colts Neck Rd
Reston, VA 20191
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| Information: (703) 476-4500 |
| Reservations: (703) 476-1111 |
The Northern Virginia Theater Alliance (NVTA) is please to announce that the
23rd annual One-Act Play Festival will open June 18, 2004 at the Reston
Community Center’s Center Stage, 2310 Colts Neck Road, Reston VA.
This year’s Festival is shaping up to be two great weekends of one-act plays
with twelve area community theater companies offering fifteen plays. Of these,
five or six are original pieces written by local playwrights.
The theater companies participating are The Castaways Repertory Theatre
(Woodbridge), Elden Street Players (Herndon), Fauquier Community Theatre
(Warrenton), The Great Falls Players (Great
Falls), Hard Bargain Players (Accokeek MD), Little Theatre of Alexandria
(Alexandria), The Pied Piper Theatre-Center for
the Arts (Manassas), Prince William Little Theatre (Manassas), Reston Community
Players (Reston), Rockville Little Theatre (Rockville), , St. Mark’s
Players (Washington DC), and Tapestry Theatre Company (Alexandria).
NVTA One-Act Festival Schedule
The 23rd Annual NVTA One-Act Play Festival takes place beginning Friday, June
18 and continues through Saturday, June 26. This event is hosted by the
CenterStage at the Reston Community Center, and this year brings together twelve
area community theaters performing fourteen plays on two consecutive weekends.
Plays to be performed include a scene from Neil Simon’s London Suite as well as
several original works. Of particular note is the fact that several featured
plays were written by members of the participating theatre groups.
The CenterStage at Reston Community Center is located at 2310 Colts Neck
Road, Reston. (703) 476-4500 is the general information number or go to
www.restoncommunitycenter.com. Tickets may be reserved, starting June 4, by
calling (703) 476-1111 . Festival tickets cost $8 for a single session of two or
three plays and $30 for a pass for all 14 performances.
The Washington Post said of an earlier festival "They have this art down to a
science. It's an enormous variety of theater in a very short time."
NVTA was founded in 1980 to facilitate communications, involvement and
support among community theaters. NVTA also promotes increased community
interest and awareness of theater activity in the Metropolitan area.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
(Times are approximate for shows subsequent to the 7:30 p.m. starting
time)
| Friday, June 18
 | 7:30 p.m. Fauquier Community Theatre (Warrenton/Vint Hill,
VA) Visible Traces (Drama, Original) Synopsis: How does
life go on for eight people left behind when a college student is killed
in a car wreck? His parents, friends, professor, and the driver of the
car all try to cope in different ways. Can they come to some kind of
understanding and peace? Life isn’t always tied up in neat little
packages. Some strong language |
| 8:40 p.m. Reston Community Players (Reston, VA) I Bring
You Flowers (Drama, Previously Published) Synopsis: A tender
drama about a husband and wife dealing with heartbreak and loss. Mature
Theme, Strong Language |
| 9:40 p.m. Castaways Repertory Theatre (Woodbridge, VA)
Lone Star (Comedy, Previously Published) Synopsis: Three men
behind a bar in the early-to-mid-70s. They are drinking, discussing
life, lost youth and the effects the Viet Nam war has had on their
lives. Despite some of the heavy themes, this is a comedy, but it does
have some rather poignant moments. Mature Theme |
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| Saturday, June 19
| 7:30 p.m. Castaways Repertory Theatre (Woodbridge, VA)
Cutting in Line (Comedy, Original)
Synopsis: A comedy about a man who gets a chance to come back to earth
on the first anniversary of his death to see how things are progressing
without him. He is rather surprised by the nature and extent of the
changes he finds upon his arrival.
Rating: Family Show |
| 8:40 p.m. Tapestry Theatre Company (Alexandria, VA)
Trojan Women (Drama, Previously Published)
Synopsis: When the glories of war are no more, who is left with the
burden of picking up the pieces? The Trojan Women steals a moment of
time long past when the women of a ravaged city are forced to face new
lives. Led by a deposed queen, some will find strength, some will find
acceptance, and others will find sorrow.
Rating: Brief nudity, Some violence |
| 10:00 p.m. Hard Bargain Players (Accokeek, MD) Gone
(Comedy,Original)
Synopsis: Three siblings searching for their lost dog in an odd gully
attempt to understand their father’s recent death with the help of a
philosophical young friend.
Rating: Some strong language |
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| Friday, June 25
| 7:30 p.m. Pied Piper Theatre (Manassas, VA) Sorry,
Shakespeare (Comedy, Previously Published)
Synopsis: Four high school students report to the school auditorium for
play rehearsal only to find out that the director is not coming. Then
one of the cast members drops the three rehearsal scripts. The pages fly
everywhere and none of them are numbered. No problem! - unless the
scripts are Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night's
Dream. As one of the students quips, "We don't know anything about
Shakespeare, but it all sounds the same anyway, so grab some pages." The
mayhem that results will have you wondering if this play is "to be, or
not to be."
Rating: Family Show |
| 8:40 p.m. St. Mark’s Players (Washington, DC) Audition
(Drama, Previously Published)
Synopsis: One woman show about a woman who is going to an audition and
accidentally gets locked in the theatre. After entertaining herself by
playing many famous roles, she realizes what a failure her life has been
as an actor and ends up committing suicide with a gun she finds in a
props bag.
Rating: Mature Theme, Strong Language |
| 10:00 p.m. Great Falls Players (Great Falls, VA) London
Suite, Act 2, Sc I (Comedy, Previously Published)
Synopsis: The play opens as Diana Nichols, a British actress who has
lived in the U.S. for many years, prepares for the arrival of her former
husband Sidney Nichols. Sidney, who has been living in Greece, has come
to London to ask Diana for money so that he can help his dying
homosexual lover. During the course of the play we find that it is not
his lover who is ill – it is himself. The play is about love and
kindness, especially in times of personal turmoil.
Rating: Mature Theme |
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| Saturday June 26 (Matinee)
| 1:30 p.m. Fauquier Community Theatre (Warrenton/Vint Hill,VA)
Ripe Conditions (Comedy, Prev. Pub.) Synopsis: Lester and
Buster, a pair of bumbling brothers, and Ann, the long-lost love of
their lives, who eloped with their kid brother years ago only to return
to their run-down farm as an attractive and eligible widow. Old feelings
are re-ignited in the brawling brothers, while the radio reports “ripe
conditions” for a tornado.
Rating: Strong Language |
| 2:50 p.m. Rockville Little Theatre (Rockville, MD)
Piano Man (Drama, Original)
Synopsis: Max, a successful college science professor, and Albert, a
concert pianist, have been out of touch since their breakup 6 months
ago. When they finally make contact, they attempt to figure out what
went wrong in their 7-year relationship, which ended abruptly after
Albert discovers Max has been cheating with one of his students.
Rating: Mature Theme, Strong Language |
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| Saturday, June 26 (Evening)
| 7:30 p.m. Elden Street Players (Herndon, VA) No Reply
(Drama, Previously Published) Synopsis: A young woman “coming of age” in
a difficult time discovers disturbing truths about herself, her
companionship needs, and the lengths to which she is willing to go to
fulfill those needs.
Rating: Mature Theme, Strong Language |
| 8:50 p.m. Little Theatre of Alexandria (VA) The Hunger
Artists (Drama/Black Comedy, Original)
Synopsis: This is a black comedy told from the perspective of two chimps
living in a research lab. There is also an established research
scientist striving to reach the pinnacle of his career and his young
assistant. Parallels are drawn between the efforts of the chimps to
obtain food and the desire of the scientists to retrieve publishable
data. In the end, the audience learns that unchecked, blind ambition
leads inevitably to doom, be it spiritual, or physical.
Rating: Mature Theme, Strong Language |
| 10:00 p.m. Prince William Little Theatre (Manassas, VA)
Sins of the Fathers (Drama, Original)
Synopsis: Three overlapping monologues of women dealing with various
aspects of sexual abuse and the resulting violence. Contains multiple
sexual references dealing with rape and incest and the resulting effect
on these women’s lives.
Rating: Strong Language, Mature Theme, Definitely not a family show.
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MEDIA ADVISORY
Journalists interested in attending the Festival for professional purposes
should contact Festival Chairman Janice Dionne at the daytime number (202)
647-9090 to make arrangements. The Reston Community Center is located at 4710
Colts Neck Road, Reston, and can be reached for information at (703 ) 476-¬1111
or www.restoncommunitycenter.com .
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