Summer Shorts 2

GB & Lexi Singh Performance Center, 60 Douglas Road, Whitinsville, MA

A series of Short Plays inspired by music!

Presented by Jakespeare Theatre Company (LLC)

2023 Performance Dates

Friday, August 25 at 8:00 pm

Saturday, August 26 at 8:00 pm

Sunday, August 27 at 1:00 pm

Featuring the following productions

Almost Like a Song - Drew Davis
- Marital mayhem erupts in musical madness during a therapy session expressed in song titles
Bag Men - Gordon Bolar
- Two men meet in a park for lunch. The contents of their lunch bags contains more than sandwiches for Jimmy John's and reveals much about the future of one of the men
Bootsie Manilow Speaks - Keith Whalen
- Twentysomething introvert Hannah is listening to music when her cat Bootsie begins speaking to her. Stunned by her feline's sudden ability to talk, she excitedly jump starts a long-desired conversation with him, but Bootsie offers up some advice that she's not so eager to hear
Carry that Weight - Jake Lewis
- Siblings Jude and Prudence are cleaning out their late father's attic when they find an old cell phone that provides a special connection to their departed dad, and perhaps the last chance for Jude to come to terms with their rocky relationship
Don't Call Me Cupid - Jonathan Cook
- Katheryn is completely smitten with a new man in her life and is eager to show him off to her roommate. Love takes a tragic backseat, however, when the god Eros aka Cupid appears and accidentally shoots her new boyfriend with the wrong arrow
The Last Song - Ruben Carbajal
- Inspired by a true story: a man dying of Covid is given the option of choosing the last song he would like to hear as before his ventilator is removed
The Lost Melody - Bridgette Dutta Portman
- Anthony is obsessed with finding a specific piece of classical music for his mother's funeral. When his father intervenes in what's proving to be a hopeless quest, withheld resentments come to light
More - Anna Tatelman
- A zombie has an existential crisis
Obscura - Allie Costa
- Three siblings struggling with changes in their family realize it's always darkest just before the dawn
Our Song - Mark Saunders
- The marriage of a romantic and cynic is put to the test when they argue over whether they need their own song, ultimately taking their marriage in a dangerous direction
Starry, Starry Night - Brian Leahy Doyle
- The play is set in the 1979. William and Julian are on a camping trip at Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin when Julian reveals that he is gay
The Wandering Blues - Alex Dremann
- Tanya is about to get on the tour bus with her banjo and leave her boyfriend Scott behind once again
What's Love Got to Do with It - Kelli Lynn Woodend
- A carnival worker's plan to take his evening break is interrupted by a feisty senior citizen who continuously pesters him

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