Summer Shorts: HOT TAKES!!!

Join us for a great set of new plays by our member playwrights based around the theme of HOT TAKES! (Apropos for our August weather!) Featuring the work of an excellent ensemble cast and four amazing directors, you don't want to miss it!
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Show dates August 21st, 22nd, 28th and 29th at 8pm, with Sunday 3pm matinees on August 23rd and 30th, all at the Mandell Theater at the Orlando Shakespeare Center!
FEATURING:
BEAUTY by FJ HARTLAND
Directed by SAM GREY
The Client -- UMAR FAROOQ
The Escort -- AJ SHOWE
An older gentlemen and a beautiful male escort connect on an unexpected level.
CURS'D BE MACBETH by DONNA LATHAM
Directed by BRANDON BORUCH
Ravenzara -- CHERYL DONOVAN
Calyia -- KIMBERLY BOYLE
Eyrie -- VICTORIA HIGHSMITH
Will Shakespeare -- ROB DEL MEDICO
Famed playwright of note needs ideas for his new play about some obscure Scottish king.
FAIRE by KAILY ANDERSON-BARR
Directed by DAVID STRAUSS
Agnes -- CINNA DUCKER
King -- ROB DEL MEDICO
Squire Justin -- BRYAN BINDMAN
At a small Renaissance Faire, the witch trial show goes very off-script.
PAULIE SELLS ALL HIS SH*T by SCOTT COOPER
Directed by MICHAEL McNAMARA
Paulie -- ERNESTO BEDOYA
Ju-Ju -- ALEC ACEVEDO
Bricks -- TOM SULLIVAN
Dejected and disgusted by the current political climate, Paulie is selling all his things to move to Ireland. A buddy and a former buddy come to see him off.
SABOTEUR by JOHN MABEY
Directed by SAM GREY
Danny - AJ SHOWE
Professor Hunter - LIZ CURTIS
The distinction between sabotaged and saboteur becomes especially tangled by those studying the mechanism.
TIDES OF DESIRE by CHUCK DENT
Directed by BRANDON BORUCH
Ultima -- BRENNA ARDEN
Hiram -- ALAN SHEPPARD
Dani -- SHELBY RANDLE
In this farcical treatment of romance novels – aka “bodice busters” – the woman who is the world's #1 cover model finds that her hotness cannot move a handsome new male model.
TOURISTS by Jim Moss
Directed by DAVID STRAUSS
Stroc -- ALAN SHEPPARD
Rosie -- SHELBY RANDLE
Conrad -- BRYAN BINDMAN
A back alley in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the final hours of Mardi Gras reveals a pair of revelers who made a wrong turn.
WILL AIN'T FREE by Joe Kolasa
Directed by MICHAEL McNAMARA
Harriett -- SHELBY RANDLE
Olivia (Ollie) -- VICTORIA HIGHSMITH
Teddi -- CHRISTINE NGUYEN
Waitress -- GRACE AULS
A trio of friends hilariously face an existential discovery.