For one night and one night only: One Acts

What would happen if the world was coming to an end? The one-act “No Signal”, by seniors Adam Winchenbach and Tutor Postolache answers this question. The play follows three story lines: a nursing home, two dogs who have fallen in love, and Paul, a rich, carefree guy who was just dumped. In between these story lines, projections of newscasters count down to the end of the world. “It was rea...

For his fourth year as an RM Blackmasker, senior Tudor Postolache is directing his first-produced show, “No Signal”. This one-act production is a mini-anthology that tells three unique stories in the backdrop of the end of the world. It is funny, tragic and an absurd journey where nursing home residents, canines, and former frat boys are all faced with certain doom and spend the time they have le...

  Junior Julian Saint Denis is the musical director for “What’s in a Name?”. This one-act play takes place in the 18th century, and the main characters are three funny ‘loser’ pirates, who learn of legendary pirates who came before them and become inspired. During the play, the pirates make lots of mistakes as they try to follow the leads of the legendary pirates. Being in charge of...

Junior JJ Kuznetsov, the co-director for the play “What’s in a Name”, found his inspiration from the annual September 19th holiday: “Talk Like a Pirate Day”. On that fateful day, when Kuznetsov walked into his band class, he spoke like a pirate. Talking in a pirate accent quickly became a running joke amongst Kuznetsov and his classmates. “I continued to think it was a joke until I wen...

Junior Ethan Hankins has taken on a new challenge this year in the form of writing and directing “What’s In a Name?” along with his two close friends he has known since freshman year, Julian Saint Denis and JJ Kuznetstov. “In the past year and a half or so, we’ve grown quite close, especially since we started writing the play,” Hankins said. The idea for the colorful pirate-noir One A...

Senior Jordyn Gershoni is an active member of RM’s drama club and has served in cast and crew positions in the RM musicals and One Acts for the past three years. Gershoni has been involved in many aspects of the drama club, but she has never been a director before. For the 2020 One Acts Festival, she and Becca Howlett are directing “Check Please”, a show that follows two characters as th...

What’s worse than a blind date? Six blind dates, of course.  The one act, “Check Please,” follows the journey of a guy and a girl who go on multiple blind dates. Each dinner date ends up going terribly, unsurprisingly so, since their dates range from raging kleptomaniacs to obsessive romantics. Originally written by Jonathan Rand, this romantic comedy is coming to RM’s own theater under the w...

What does it mean to be morally grey?  Ali Saffel explores this question in her one-act play “Morally Grey”, a show in which a protagonist who makes questionable decisions is thrown for a loop when their conscience comes to life.  “I wanted to try something where the conscience comes to life and is just… nagging. It ended up turning more into a drama with comedic elements,” Saffel ...