WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES: A DRUNKEN MIXTAPE 2015

We All Make Mistakes: A Drunken Mixtape
Sundown’s 4th Annual(ish) Short Play Festival

August 21st-23rd, 28th-30th, 2015

CHIVALRY IN FLUX
A young woman is set up on a blind date with a man who has very interesting ideas about how to treat a lady.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Drew Maggs
CASSIE: Cassie Peters
DONATELLO: Bryan Patrick

CLOCKWORKS AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Life is short. Human beings are given an entire time span to truly experience life and happiness, but personal cycles of fear, doubt, or bad habits can prevent us from living a life to its full potential.

CREATED AND DIRECTED BY: Jenna Davis Jones
HEART: Allison Wainscott
BODY: Robert Linder
MIND: Janelle Schroder
SOUL: Gustavo Rodriguez

CURTAINS
A mixed media performance piece exploring the reasons we hide, where we hide, and at what cost we hide behind various states of being in order to be anyone but who we truly are.

CREATED AND PERFORMED BY: Cesar Velasco

DISILLUSIONED
A devised romantic comedy shedding light on two people who struggle with a mental disorder. Can they keep the flame alive, or will they let their struggles get between them?

WRITTEN BY: Christopher Taylor, Shayleigh Ward, Bethany Burnside
DIRECTED BY: Bethany Burnside
JACK: Christopher Taylor
JESSICA: Shayleigh Ward

DUET
A movement-based/choreographed piece illustrating the journey a couple takes when one person makes a mistake, and the forgiveness, trust and grace it takes from both in order to move on.

CREATED AND DIRECTED BY: Mandy Rausch
WOMAN: Mandy Rausch
MAN: Sean Holmes

INTERNAL CLOCK
When a wife finds herself at the mercy of an internal clock gone awry, tensions flare and many hours of sleep are lost. What’s the warranty on an internal clock, and who is responsible for fixing it?

WRITTEN BY: Liesl Ehmke
DIRECTED BY: Chadwick Withers
INTERNAL CLOCK: Cooper Wiseman
WIFE: Janelle Schroder
HUSBAND: Christopher Taylor

MARREN AND THE THREE-LEGGED MOOSE
A drunken night involving a fairy godmother and a bicycle results in a road trip no one expected.

WRITTEN BY: Kelsey Johnson
DIRECTED BY: Nicole Neely
MARREN LITTLE: Janelle Schroder
CHARDONNAY LOUISE: Liz Hatter
THE HUNGOVER GODMOTHER: Melissa Karol

OUR CHILD
An unexpected pregnancy throws a young, unprepared couple into turmoil. Dreams have to be put on hold or go away completely, and the man and woman must decide whether or not the future for their family is one that contains all three of them.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Franky Gonzales
WOMAN: Allison Wainscott
MAN: Logan Thomas

SCISSORS
Clark, a murderer with multiple personalities, battles his guilt while struggling to remain dominant over his other, more insidious sides.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Collin Miller
CLARK: Cooper Wiseman
SCISSORS: Daniel Frank
BLIND: Mazher Fidai
LUX: Robert Linder

SLEEPWALKERS
A sleepwalking woman has an interesting encounter when she runs into a busy corporate-type in the middle of a street.

WRITTEN BY: Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell
DIRECTED BY: Mandy Rausch
SLEEPWALKER: Bethany Burnside
WALKER: Christopher Taylor

TAG
Three graffiti artists run from the cops, finding themselves on the roof of the city’s art institute. As they prepare to tag the building, they are confronted with their own ideas about art and question who is ultimately responsible for their work.

WRITTEN BY: Laura King
DIRECTED BY: Matthew Stepan
JJ: Gustavo Rodriguez
PREACHER: Kerri Peters
MAGGS: Liz Hatter

VEGGIE LASS
How many times can a person be offered vegetable lasagna before they start to lose their mind?