Bedlam Theatre

Bedlam Theatre is gearing up for another year of Community Collaborative AdventuresThe Bedlam Community Ten Minute Play Festival started in 2002 and every year comprises two dozen or so original short works.

The performances are all 10 Minutes (yes, we’re gotten strict about it), however the performances are not necessarily “plays”  (we are un-strict about that!)

The Festival Runs May 13th to 23nd.  The plays are performed in four seperate sets.  Tickets are $10 to see one set, $15 to see two or a $20 punch card to see all four. 

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SET A:
Gertie and Greta, written and directed by Sheila Regan
The story of a woman and her severed extra head.

Mickey’s by Kevin Flynn, directed by Bethany Simmons
Come join us at a diner where our friend Curtis is dead.

Filles du Roi by Corrie Zoll, directed by Jason Ballweber
King Louis XIV needs his new territories to grow but his subjects will not fornicate.

Girlz: a Reckoning by Erin Search-Wells, directed by Marie Chantal Pavageaux
Two women sit at a table seemingly discussing the philosophy of art. But all is not only what it seems.

The Yellow Wallpaper, based on the short story by Charlotte Perkings Gilman, created by Samantha Johns and Co, directed by Samantha Johns ; "i find it hovering in the dining – room,/skulking in the parlor,/hiding in the hall,/lying in wait for me on the stairs./it gets into my hair"

My Roommate, My Nemesis by Ben Marcy, directed by Carl Atiya Swanson
A whiz-pop ballet that bursts from the simmering tensions of that most odious of institutions: sharing an apartment.

SET B:

I dreamt. It did not happen. I remember. written and directed by David Puma
A mix of visuals and music that moves between dream, memory, and theatre.

Permission to Enter— Choreographed by Lelis Brito with input from cast.
10 minutes of dancing people trying to figure out when it’s O.K. to hug and when it’s just too darn creepy.

Jones’n by Jeremy Anderson, directed by Scott Pakudaitis
A poet confronts his past and dwells among his memories of Miss Jones.

My Name is Art by Peter Snoad, directed by Rachel Teagle follows two museum goers who get more than they bargained for when Art arrives in leather boots and a cape.

Dancing Queen Elizabeth by Josie Winship

Disconnected by Kristen Palmer, directed by John Eichenlaub
How can people who live and work together remain so separated from one another?

SET C:

Wild by Janet Allard, directed by Maren Ward, video projections by Trevor Adams
She just found out he’s a werewolf. She has secrets of her own.

Breakfast with Ben by Sam Koenigsberg, directed by Telsche Thiessen: Inspired by Bedlam’s field trip to the liberty bell, this is one’s girl’s story of the never ending spectacle that is cooking biscuits and gravy for a great founding father.

The Story of Bub by Kathleen Warnock, directed by Jason Ballweber
The only two turtles in the world meet another turtle.

Breath by Shannon Murdoch, directed by Laura Leffler-McCabe: a play about too many possessions, suburban disquietude and learning to breathe.

The Biopsy by Monica Raymond, directed by Edy Elliott
Two sisters, A diagnosis, Where do they go from there?

Where Things Are by Steven Schutzman, directed by Bethany Simmons: The passively aggressive, at times, cruel relationship of a mother and son as seen at a very dark birthday party.

SET D:

The Gym Teacher created and performed by Wreck Family Productions
A short play that depicts the adventures of a sexy gym teacher on a night she won’t soon forget.

Full Count by Hardy Coleman, directed by Nicole Wilder
A baseball odyssey that ends in a new kind of womanhood.

Wild by Janet Allard, directed by Maren Ward, video projections by Trevor Adams
She just found out he’s a werewolf. She has secrets of her own.

The Stand-In by Brett Hursey, directed by Ben Egerman: A woman walks in to an audition and finds out that her scene partner is a sock puppet named Xocko. With an X.

Seashell by Rosanna Staffa, directed by John Francis Bueche: An angel in an office chair beckons an oil-paint St. Anthony to life to reveal a secret crush and finding the seashell.

Teddy Knows Too Much by Matthew Hanf, directed by Heather Wilson: the homicidal ramblings of a toddler with codependant and enabling parents…it’s a comedy…unless you are a teddy bear…warning teddy bears were harmed in the creation of the play.

Heart in His Hand written and directed by George McConnell: a play about love that is uncannily familiar, except for the part with the sea lion. or maybe that part is familiar too.

Big Wrap Mac created and performed by Heidi Arneson is a play about the proliferation of plastic, the breakdown of language, and the tenacity of the human heart.