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PlayFest is Omaha’s free performance festival featuring plays and celebrations of local music, art, stories and community. Come kick off a golden summer on the plains with these five great nights.
PlayFest is free and open to the public.
All performances begin at 7:30 p.m.
PlayFest is part of the Great Plains Theatre Conference
presented by
Metropolitan Community College.
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Sunday, May 26th and Monday, May 27th
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Two monologues - tiny epics, really - set on asteroids.
Mac Wellman’s Horrocks (and Toutatis Too) and Wu World Woo are adapted for the stage from the short stories of the same titles, taken from his collection A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds. Based on real asteroids in the asteroid belt, Mac Wellman populates them with outlandish characters who live by rules which defy all logic. So singular and foreign are these mad worlds, that they and their inhabitants become so clearly recognizable and utterly familiar.
What can a play about asteroids tell us about being human?
"Mac Wellman's wonderful imagination blurs reality and fiction so skillfully that one is disoriented enough to be mesmerized, and down to earth enough to realize that our world is just one among many possible worlds, and not much more than that." (Etel Adnan)
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Monday, May 27th
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Neighborhood Tapestries – North Omaha
A celebration of local music, art, stories, food and community
Directed by Denise Chapman
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Outdoors at the Union for Contemporary Art
2417 Burdette St.
*Rain location : Lied Center for Arts Education – Creighton University
6:30 pm Food, Art Display and Music
7:30 pm Storytelling begins
Seating will be provided
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| Come share an evening of stories, food, music, art and community with your neighbors! |
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Tuesday, May 28th
Recommended Reading for Girls
By Ellen Struve
Directed by Amy Lane
Omaha Community Playhouse
6915 Cass St.
Doors open at 7:00 pm. Performance begins at 7:30 pm.
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| Recommended Reading for Girls invites you to step into a storybook. When Amy returns to her childhood home to care for her ailing mother, she discovers uninvited guests from her favorite childhood novels. A beloved crew of heroines turns the household topsy-turvy as Amy struggles to reconcile with the stories she loves, the people she loves and the stories she has told herself in this warm, funny, fanciful play. |
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Wednesday, May 29th
- Neighborhood Tapestries – South Omaha
- A celebration of local music, art, stories, food and community history
- Directed by Scott Working
- Outdoors at South High’s Collins Stadium,
- 22nd and M St.
- *Rain location - Omaha South High School Auditorium
6:30 pm Food Vendors, Art Display and Music
7:30 pm Storytelling begins
Seating will be provided
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| Come share an evening of stories, food, music, art and community with your neighbors! |
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Thursday, May 30th
- Take Me To The River
- By Constance Congdon
- Directed by Cindy Melby Phaneuf
- Set Design by Littleton Alston and Jess Benjamin
- Music composed and performed by Michael Murphy
- Outdoors at Miller’s Landing overlooking the magnificent Missouri River!
- 151 Freedom Park Rd.
- *Rain location - Lied Center for Arts Education - Creighton University
- Seating will begin at 7:00 pm. Performance will begin at 7:30 pm.
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- Seating will be provided
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Set in Colorado, Constance Congdon's Take Me to the River explores the devastation wreaked on a small farming community after the government orders its wells closed. Two families, the Campbells and the Montoyas, struggle to survive with humor, anger, and even a little wisdom.
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