Week One of the 14th annual Players Theatre Short Play Festival - LUV ran last weekend at The Players Theatre in the West Village, presenting tales of love, loss, and romance to sold-out audiences. Each weekend for three weeks in February, a new selection of 15-minute original plays premieres to welcome viewers into the season of love.
Last weekend's audience-selected winner was "At Least It's Shark Week", written by Brendan O'Dwyer and directed by Skylar Fisher-Duddy.
After a serious accident and while under the influence of heavy medication, Danny (Brendan O'Dwyer) provides the E.R. with his old flame Rosie's (Halle Kaufax) phone number as his emergency contact. When Rosie actually shows up, the two discuss their fleeting fling head-on between consultants with Dr. Truman (Eric Aschenbrenner, Josh Romeo) and Nurse Hathaway (Nicole Arcieri). Danny learns that his perspective of what happened with his relationship with Rosie isn't the same as what she experienced.
"At Least It's Shark Week" appeared alongside four other sweet and sensational short plays.