Week Two of Be Bold! Productions' 14th annual Players Theatre Short Play Festival LUV ran last weekend at The Players Theatre in the West Village, romancing audiences with bite-size plays focusing on love in a variety of forms. Each weekend for three weeks in February, a new selection of 15-minute original plays premieres, embracing the official month of love.
Last weekend's audience-selected winner was "Hook, Line and Sinker", written by Kristen Evans and directed by Marina Barry.
When old friends Phil (Bill Barry) and Frank (Jordan Auslander) meet up for a day of fishing, they soon discover that though they've been friends for years, they hardly know each other at all. Each learns that their wives cheated on them with the other, that neither one of them has caught a fish in the last eight seasons they have been meeting up, and that one of them has been attending the nudist camp down the street. Combined with a surprise goose attack, these two friends are forced to redefine their friendship.
"Hook, Line and Sinker" appeared alongside four other love-themed short plays.