January 19th-21st
The 2023 One-Act Festival is comprised of 6 student-directed short plays, 3 of which are also student-written! A longtime HTC tradition, the One-Acts give seniors an opportunity to experience directing and putting together their own shows, as well as giving actors a place to explore their talents in non-conventional roles. The 2023 Winter One-Acts will be performed January 19th-21st in the Harriton Black Box.
The 2023 One-Acts and Casts
They Read Theory, written and directed by Sam Bailey and Marlena Marg Bracken: Red, thoughtful and anxious, stands outside a convenience store as her best friend attempts to shop-lift. Through a conversation with a new friend, Liam, and an increasingly wild parade of burglars—a Capitalist caricature, an approximation of Karl Marx, and a cartoonish robber—Red discovers her own perspective on the ethics of stealing.
RED – Sofia Siano
LIAM – Jack McCullough
JOJO – Lillian Klatte
MONOPOLY MAN – Juliet Woolard
COMMUNIST CARL – Casey Everson
BURGLAR/THEODORE – Elizabeth Deneen
POLICE OFFICER – Ariana Pavri
Matterhorn, written by Rich Orloff and directed by Maya Pasternack and Cameron Parker: Stuck in a never-ending line at Disneyland, a husband (JERRY) and wife (ARLEEN) are just on the verge of killing each other – until they devise a novel solution to their marital woes…
JERRY – Dashiel Albright
ARLEEN – Tess Woolard
Giant Slayer, written by Izzy Levit and directed by Ava Marcus and Izzy Levit: Dear Sally… Did you get my letter? The postal service here is kinda… slow. And by here I mean camp. Obviously.
GOOSE – Cami Huntington
MAILMAN – Tenzin Joh
PLAYER 1 – Hayden Picker
PLAYER 2 – McKenzie Anninos
PLAYER 3 – Grace Deneen
Swamped, written and directed by Charlie Bowser: What should someone do when they’re fed up with everyone in town thinking their family is crazy? If your answer wasn’t “Accidentally wish an alternate town full of swamp creatures into existence”, you clearly know nothing about oracles. Or Wishing Ducks. Or vaguely southern swamp-adjacent fishing towns.
INGRID – Pearl McShane
EVANGELINE – Lucy San Chirico
JOSEPH – Bobby Siano
GIL – Henry Yearley
AL – Delaney Free
CLANCY – Rosa DeMonte
EDMOND – Fionnuala McCann
The Art of the Duel, written by Jack J. Berry and directed by Ashton Norwood: Two politicians decide to settle a disagreement with a duel–not that either of them know how a duel works.
ALEX – Elijah Warriner
AARON – Lucas Nelson
DAWN – Carly Marcus
Beer Girl, written by Walter Wykes and directed by Alice Deutsch: A sad alcoholic (BOB), having left his girlfriend/wife (FLO) for a handmade, life-sized replica of his perfect woman shoddily pieced together out of beer cans (BEER GIRL), receives a confrontation from FLO in his motel getaway full of comedic antics.
BOB – Pietro Romussi
FLO – Ally Fenton
BEER GIRL – Madison Nguyen
CLARINET – Jeremy Green