Cary Playwrights' Forum & OdysseyStage Present 'NC 10 by 10: A Festival of 10-Minute Plays'

By: Jun. 30, 2018
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Cary Playwrights' Forum & OdysseyStage Present 'NC 10 by 10: A Festival of 10-Minute Plays'

Chapel Hill-Carrboro's OdysseyStage teams up with the Cary Playwrights' Forum to present a new festival of short plays this July: NC 10 by 10 Play Festival. Each group is producing five of the plays, with all ten being shown at each performance. It will be presented at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro July 19-21. The festival then moves to The Cary Theatre, July 26-28.

CPF and OdysseyStage solicited scripts from across NC in early 2018 and received over six dozen submissions. The ten winning plays range from a modern retelling of an old folk tale in Ed Southern's Ol' Jack Spooks the Devil to a meeting with a prescient sock puppet in Rollin Jewett's Socky Tells All. Audiences can expect to see werewolves, a menacing doctor, a very advanced ATM, and an existential Hansel and Gretel, among others.

The festival follows in the footsteps of 10 by 10 in the Triangle that ran each summer at The ArtsCenter for 15 years. NC 10 by 10 is different in its emphasis on NC writers. With two theatre companies in two towns, the cast couldn't be limited to ten actors; 23 local performers are involved in the new production.

Annie Taft, one of the show's ten directors, says, "when I found out a ten-minute play festival was coming back to the area, I knew I wanted to be a part of it." The play she's directing, Fire and Rain, opens the show (with a bang) and features one of the evening's notable NC references: a café diner mistaken for Chapel Hill's most famous singer-songwriter. The show aims for the variety that made 10 by 10 in the Triangle so popular. It's a program of comedy and tension, of simple human connection and mythic story-telling.

First weekend performances take place at The ArtsCenter, 300-G East Main St Carrboro, NC
July 19-21 at 8:00 PM, with a Sunday matinee on July 22 at 3:00 PM.
General admission: $10 Thursdays, $18 Friday and Saturday nights, $15 matinees.
Tickets for performances at The ArtsCenter are available on their website, www.artscenterlive.org or by calling the box office, (919) 929-2787.

The second weekend is at The Cary Theatre, 122 E. Chatham St., Cary, NC
July 26-28 at 7:30 PM, with a matinee on Saturday, July 28 at 2:00 PM.
General admission: $10 Thursdays, $18 Friday and Saturday nights, $15 matinees.
Ticket info for Cary shows is at http://www.caryplaywrightsforum.org/?page_id=3470



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