Oil is out, low temperatures are in! Or so we're interpreting the whims of fortune, which shut down the boiler in our usual space and put the temporary kibosh on our show about notorious energy company Enron.

Undaunted, we’re taking our lemons and making (frozen) lemonade - which is to say, using that time putting on a night of fantastic one-act shows at the Armory! We'll find the silver lining in this snowdrift yet. Join us for four one-act plays featuring existentialism, judgmental AI, and four mouthfuls of whiskey.

Performance

ONE NIGHT ONLY! Friday, March 6, 2026, at 8pm

Location

A Night of One Acts will be presented at the Rooted Café at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville.

The Astounding Krispinsky, as narrated by his trusty assistant Marco, undertakes his most daring feat of escape artistry yet and seeks to break free from his own life!

Pieter Wallace — Wallace

Paula Hawthorne — Marco

Reece’s job is software testing. His latest project? Making sure there are no bugs in the latest AI-powered virtual assistant, Syd. Too bad he procrastinated on the testing, and Syd is developing wants and dreams of her own…

Tim Meserve — Reece

Caro Parker-Fairbain — Syd

A traveling theater troupe discovers a life-changing windfall of loose change.

Raj Bhuva — Comedian

Rosie Sentman — Villain

Pooja Usgaonkar — Tragedian

Amelia Smith — Heroine

Rebecca Shoer — Ingenue

Young Jonathan Harker is so excited to go on his first overseas business trip! But what are these squabbling Romanian innkeepers trying to warn him about? And why do they keep mentioning Charles Dickens?

Lori-Anne Cohen — Elena

Elizabeth Ross — Ani

Tim Meserve — Jonathan