Created Original Works Festival 2024 line-up

friendship points game

Written by character work class 2024

Four players log onto the Friendship Points game with their avatars.  As they compete for status within friendships, what is real and what is virtual are confused, and what it means to gain “points” in a friendship becomes increasingly challenging. 

The case of the speckled pencil

Written by young actor prepares class 2024

A huge kerfuffle has burst forth upon a school, as a pencil has been stolen, a rival accused, and sides taken by all.  As the students try to sort out just who stole the special speckled pencil, all is lost, until they realize they have a student Sherlock Holmes in their midst to help solve the case. 

Aesops goes to school

Written by aesops improv class 2024

Narrators get sick of hearing how self-absorbed and whiney the characters are, and how they never learn their lesson.  The narrators realize they have no compassion, so they need to up the stakes.  The worst punishment they can think of is to make them go to human school.   There, the newly human, newly challenged fable characters interact with real humans.  Some learn their lesson, and some . . . don’t.   Ultimately the narrators take pity on the actual humans, and bring the characters back to the fables. 

Soda Stories or How to Not Write a Story or Plots and Pepsi Pandemonium

Written by introduction to scene study class 2024

A younger brother must complete his homework of writing a story.  His older sister is left in charge, and despairs of getting him to actually follow directions. He writes a story, but then can’t finish it, or loses interest.    Fed up with her literary critiques and bossiness, he takes matters into his own hands and fuels up on soda, and as the sugar rush kicks in, the stories begin to fly.

Revenge of the crates

Written by liam mcclelland and finn morbyrne

The crates are fed up with the Drama Studio and decide to plot a revolution!