Death is fairer than life; it comes for everybody and does not discriminate. ‘Everybody got a time coming. Can’t nobody say they ain’t got a time coming.’ We all live on borrowed time from the start of our existence; nobody is getting out alive. On a play that opens with its conclusion in plain sight, driving you back through the events of how it ended up that way, August Wilson’s Seven Guitars is a harrowingly beautiful theatrical experience,
“When it’s dark, look for stars.”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensations, darkness stirs and wakes imagination.”
Some of my favorite quotes about night. Two of those three come from musical theatre, my heart and passion, and while there are no 10-minute musicals in this year’s variations festival, the plays on offer are quite impressive, all swirling in the darkened void of this year’s theme: Night.
author: Erin Tarpley
Why go out for a night of theatre to see one play when you can go out and see eight?! In this Co-Production between Strand Theater Company and Two Strikes Theatre Collective, Brown Sugar Bake-Off presents a night (or matinee) of eight 10-minute plays that focus on the theme of mental health, as told through the voices of Black women and non-binary playwrights.
This year’s 10-Minute Play Festival,