If you’ve ever wished theater would catch up with the short attention span of today’s Facebook and fast food generation, then you might like UNLV’s 10-minute plays.
The bite-sized dramas, playing March 5-8, are written by MFA students, directed by faculty and performed by undergrads. While just as immediately pleasurable as a YouPorn clip or an In ‘n’ Out drive-thru, the shorts are anything but superficial.
Calendar
- 10-minute plays @ UNLV
- March 5-7, 8 p.m., $7.50
- Paul Harris Theatre at UNLV
- UNLV Performing Arts Calendar
- Las Vegas Academy presents The Wiz
- March 5-7, 7 p.m., $18
- Lowden Theater for the Performing Arts
- 315 S 7th Street
- Purchase tickets here.
Sample Childcare in Crocodiles, (“Herpetology and baby-sitting in the dark,” according to the playwright, Casey Davis); The Results (“Missing DNA test results and a mustache may just end a marriage” from Neil Haven) or Nature’s Last Stand about a New Year’s Eve party gone awry.
If you don’t mind a full length production complete with pee-holding discomfort and phone-checking antsiness, check out the Las Vegas Academy’s interpretation of The Wiz (March 5-7), which takes Dorothy and her jovial crew on a 150 minute journey to find out there’s no place like home.
Whether you like your theater short and inventive or long and elaborate, both schools are offering a cheap and enriching way to spend a couple hours. And with all those aspiring Shakespeares and Julie Andrews, you could be watching The Next Big Thing.
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