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Different Strokes! Performance Arts Collective presentsThe 4th Annual 369
Monologue & Short Play Festival
369 Monologue and Short Play Festival, Part 4: Get Up! Stand Up!
Different Strokes! Is thrilled to present our fourth year of this series of monologues and short plays. This year, our theme will be: Get up, STAND UP!
Please join us as we present material from local authors and around the world.
About the Festival
This year’s festival is subtitled Get Up! Stand Up!, bringing together stories of triumph, survival, inspiration, humor, and personal power for a world that could use them right now. This theatrical celebration features a curated selection of emerging playwrights and offers audiences a rotating mix of five short plays and five monologues across three weekends.
Performance Format
Across eight different evenings of entertainment, audiences will experience a fresh combination of short plays and monologues at each performance. Following each evening’s performance, audience members will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite monologue and favorite play. Those selections will help shape The Best of 369, a special afternoon of audience favorites on Sunday, October 18 at 3 p.m.
This Year's Cast and Crew:
Rodney Smith – Director
Dani Cox – Director/Playwright
Scott Fisher – Director
Cast:
Meg Brunton
Scott Fisher
Kirby Gibson
Chesney Goodson
Jasmine McAllister
Peter Millis
Rodney Smith
Sharvis Smith
Melon Wedick
Kavi Zuniga
This Year’s Selections:
Orange Slices written by Penny Meacham - Prose / Dani Cox - Adaptation (Oct. 2, 3, 9, 17)
Local poet, Penny Meacham, has been telling her stories in Asheville for 6 years. For the first time she is taking her writing to the theatre. This adaptation of her inspiring prose into a staged play brings new life and meaning to a wondrous moment in childhood that will remind all who are lost of what matters most.
No One Knows Where I Am written by Dani Cox (Oct. 3, 9, 16, 17)
As women navigate work-life they discover what it takes to truly gain control over it. Based on true events in our city's music community.
Working a Shift at Santo Tomas written by Anne Dickens (Oct. 1, 3, 9, 17)
At the dawn of America’s involvement in World War Two, when America was still reeling from the attacks on Pearl Harbor, another life and death struggle began playing out for the American military and civilians in the Philippines. Thousands of US and Philippine military personnel and civilians would be taken as prisoners of war. A Shift at Santo Tomas tells the story of one young Army nurse as she details her feelings about survival and loss in the face of unforgiving hardship.
Michael is Black written by Michael Hagins (Oct. 1, 2, 10, 16)
Michael Hagins, NYC Playwright and Actor, tells us the story of his struggle as a black man through the mouth of charismatic, white actor Michael Rehse. Rehse will Mikesplain how difficult it is to be a black man in America today.
Sweetie's Confession written by Marlow Wyatt (Oct. 2, 3, 9, 17)
A young executive goes to confession after suppressing years of racism at her prestigious job causes her to snap.
WHITE MOM written by Hailey Brunson (Oct. 1, 2, 10, 16)
When Heaven is based on race, where do two Biracial people go? In Hailey Brunson's WHITE MOM, when one woman -who is perfectly 50% Black and 50% White- dies, she only has 10 minutes to decide between Black Heaven, White Heaven, and Hell.
Worst Table written by Karen Poulsen (Oct. 3, 9, 10, 17)
A restaurant offers a 10% discount for anyone willing to sit at the “worst table in the house.” When two stubborn strangers arrive at the same time and refuse to give up the deal, a petty battle of wits over table space and lemon wedges turns into an unexpected connection.
Dear Management written by Sharece Sellem-Hannah (Oct. 1, 2, 10, 16)
Chloe records a video of her resignation one week after George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police. This monologue was written as a response to systemic racism.
Trash Day written by Vincent Terrell Durham (Oct. 3, 9, 10, 16, 17)
A woman confronts a homeless man rummaging through her trash. She quickly discovers how much her trash reveals about herself.
“*” Indicates a local playwright
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Event venue
Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave, Asheville, NC 28801-3604, United States
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