Fourth Annual One-Act Play Festival - April 2009

For this podcast, we take a listen to the three short productions that make up this year's one-act play festival at the Embassy, the fourth installment.  These contest-winning scripts are being staged for two weekends - April 3-5 and 9-11.  First is Ralph E. Riley's comedy "Who's the Hostage?", in which an escaped criminal infiltrates a spinster's home in hopes of making a getaway, but instead he finds himself in a Catch-22 of hilarious proportions.  In the middle is Scot Walker's second-chance drama "Molasses Toast and French Fried Eels," where a man who wakes up from his slab in the morgue after being dead 30 minutes now has a strange new power, with which he can uncover some interesting facts.

Finally, Blair Llewellyn's "The Oldest Profession" showcases (pictured) Cindy Pownall, Jay Atkinson, and Angela Merrithew in a tale of a senator, his wife, and a madam's little black book.  Just how much is a person's past worth?  You'll find out when you come to the New Embassy's one-act festival in April!  In this podcast, you'll hear from "Who's the Hostage?" personnel, and "Oldest Profession" playwright Llewellyn about their productions, as well as excerpts from all three plays.  Also, don't miss a new feature to the podcast, "The Phrase That Pays!"  Click the POD link above and wait a few minutes over broadband for the download.

Tickets for the show are $18 adults/$16 seniors and students.  Performances are 7:30 pm Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 2:30 pm Sunday.

Running time: about 22 minutes.