Las Cruces Community Theatre Presents One-Act Play Festival

Las Cruces community theatre is presenting five works in its upcoming one-act play festival. The works will be presented from January 15 to 24.

Confessions
by Mandolynn Browning
Directed for LCCT by Shaun Hadfield
A look at how four prison inmates view and tell their stories. The playwright sets the stories against vignettes of reality, illuminating the human factor in our self perceptions. By the end of the play one inmate is able to align his story with fact.
Cast
Buddy Joe Pfeiffer
Howard Robert Senecal
Jay Norman Duttweiler
Nick Michael Riley

Also Featuring Heather Pfeiffer, Melissa Chambers,
Austin Tucker, Rebekah Riley, and Nancy Clein

The End, of All Things
by James Jensen
Directed for LCCT by James Jensen
A one act play where everything is much, much deeper than it seems. The two main characters, who appear to meet in their own graveyard, explore their universe from opposite perspectives. One has accepted their situation at face value, while the other still questions everything. Together they travel to a new level of understanding as they encounter characters who challenge their previous beliefs and illuminate questions neither had thought to ask on their own. By the end it is hoped that the exploration of the actors will combine with the presence of the audience to meet somewhere neither group could have traveled to without the other.
Cast
Old Norman Duttweiler
New James Boberg
Another/Pastor Joe Pfeiffer
Girlfriend Jade Diaz
Boyfriend James Jensen

Hamlet in the Hood
by Les Boyse
Directed for LCCT by Les Boyse
An updated spoof of one of Shakespeare's greatest works. Picture the great bard born and (barely) educated in the inner city.
Cast
Francisca and Rosie Jessica Dinsmore
Bernarda and Gildie Talya Jensen
Hamlet James Jensen
Laertes and Death Dylan Sweet
Ghost, Death 2 and Polonius Jay Furnari
Gertrude and Digger Melissa Chambers
Horatio Robert Senecal
Claudius Bart Mendenhall
Rory Les Boyse
Ophelia Karen Buerdsell

They're Made out of Meat
from a short story by Terry Bisson
When Robert Burns wrote of the need to see ourselves as others see us I doubt he had this in mind! An unusual perspective on human life.
Cast
Right Michael Riley
Left Shaun Hadfield

Nobody Sleeps
by Guernsey Le Pelley
Directed for LCCT by Marcus Vickers
Daisy, 16, comes upon Spike, a burglar, rifling a desk drawer. "You'll never find anything in that desk. We never can." Spike could have been a weekend guest. It's that kind of family. Daisy would just as soon Spike would take her sister's money. She's saving for a guitar, and the family dreads the result. Ada says: "You ought to meet Mom. She's writing a mystery and wants to meet a good burglar." There's another sister, and Mother - and they're all full of criticisms. "Why aren't you wearing gloves? What would you give for an alibi?" Spike is left broken up, and the audience broKen Down - laughing.
Cast
Burglar Dylan Sweet
Daisy Veronica Taleon
Ava Tiffany Anastashia
Glory Jade Diaz
Mrs. Busby Nancy Clein

Show Dates and Times
Fridays: January 15 and January 22 at 8:00 PM
Saturdays: January 16 and January 23 at 8:00 PM
Sundays: January 17 and January 24 at 2:00 PM

Ticket Prices Everybody! $5
Season Ticket Holders Free! Just Show Your Ticket - No Punch

For more information, please visit http://www.lcctnm.org/

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