New Works Festival at CHC is a Hit Around the World!
Publish Date: June 22, 2021
The 海角直播 Theatre Department presented the second annual New Works Festival 鈥淣ever Tell Me the Odds鈥� May 5-9. Over the course of the weekend, 60 ten-minute and one-act plays were presented. Over half of these plays were directed by 海角直播 students or faculty, and most of the actors were 海角直播 students.
The top-ranked plays were Bodkin, by Hollywood screenwriter and UCR Professor Robin
Russin, PayDayus ex Machina, by Chuck Smith, and In Farce, by Steve Bucko. One hundred
play submissions were received and were then blind scored by a reading committee.The
60 plays that were chosen were written by playwrights from 16 states, three Canadian
provinces, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, China and the United Kingdom.
Due to COVID-19 protocols that were still in place, all plays were presented either
over Zoom or as recordings. Interactive sessions with the playwrights and the audience
were held after every session, with over half of the writers participating.
