Briefs: One Act Play Season

Under the heading of Briefs, Gold Coast Little Theatre presented their Annual One Act Play Season.

This year’s offerings included 6 plays written especially this season and Lauri Wylie’s evergreen piece Dinner for One which is frequently shown on German Television.

Of the home-grown plays, The Price of Fame gave us 3 people whose job it was to decide if a person was popular enough through their online activities to pass into immortality or be discarded into oblivion as a lost soul. The stringent criteria one had to achieve to pass over were quite amusing.

The other five local plays gave us a mixture of pensioners, con artists, gullible folk and luck; both good and bad.

Dinner for One gave us two experienced performers, Jan Alcorn and Joel Beskin, recreating this time honoured piece with Miss Sophie hosting her annual dinner with four imaginary friends and being waited on by her long standing butler, who got increasingly tipsy with each round as it was served. The play was introduced by Leo Mevissen.

The idea behind this festival is to encourage writers, directors and performers, providing a platform on which to hone their skills in a performance environment.

Well done to all concerned.

Roger McKenzie

Photos by Elaine Karpathy.