Summer Shorts 4: Series B

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The fourth annual festival of new American short plays.

SERIES B:

THE GRADUATION OF GRACE
By Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Stephanie Berry
With Clara Hopkins Daniels
An adolescent girl at the top of her class, leaving her treasured school and friends, struggles to find her place in the world that now confronts her.

HAPPY
By Alan Zweibel
Directed by Fred Berner
With Scott Adsit and Arthur French
A middle-aged baseball fan goes to a Boca Raton apartment building seeking out its superintendent, Happy Halliday, an elderly man who once played second base for the 1962 New York Mets. The fan has brought a baseball signed by members of the team that Happy played for, which will become much more valuable once his old hero signs it.

FIT
By Neil Koenigsberg
Directed by Merri Milwe
With José Joaquin Perez, Kate Cullen Roberts, Liam Torres
A super-fit, wildly attractive young couple from Southern California - Billy Butch and Kimmy Rose - become involved in an unorthodox liaison with a middle-aged man from London.

JONATHAN'S BLAZE
by Christopher Stetson Boal
directed By Alexander Dinelaris
with J.J. Kandel, P.J. Sosko
Angels, fire, death, a gun, a Zippo lighter, and a large container of gasoline all come together in Christopher Boal's Jonathan's Blaze - a play about redemption, the horror of inaction, and the hidden consequences of war.