Pop-Up Playfest
About this Event
5 plays in 3 days, featuring rap, racecars, road trips and plays in every genre, from comedy to horror to sci-fi and back again. Read more about our plays below! In Carnegie Mellon University’s Studio Theatre in the Jared L. Cohon University Center.
A DAY OR TWO OF DIRT by Hannah Honey Shepard (Sunday, August 3 @ 2pm)
A surreal horror drama about five survivors of a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness. Safety from one another cannot be guaranteed. They must ask themselves: where do the finite edges of rationale blur into faith, and what role does trust have to play?
ANATOMY OF A RACECAR: A RACING BALLET by maguire wilder (Friday, August 1 @ 8pm; after Doompacalypse)
Rosie loves racing, but her father won’t let her drive. He sits on the couch all day, watching her mother race, while Rosie secretly builds a car with the help of her trusty pit crew, the Spice Girls. An experimental play/ballet about grief, girlhood, and finding your own way.
CHAT-GPT HAS A KNIFE by Liggera Edmonds-Allen (Saturday, August 2 @ 7pm)
Chat-GPT has a knife. Thalia, a representative of humanity, has to convince them that our species is perfect; after all, we’ve got dirty limericks, cowboys, and Con O’Niel! They’ll take Chat-GPT on a tour of the best humanity has to offer in order to save us all — or die trying…
DOOMPACALYPSE by Sondai NaNaBuluku (Friday, August 1 @ 7pm)
When men self isolate and hide from the "real world", the mind becomes your sanctuary/Pr*son. It creates people to rebel with, a narcissistic ruler who needs to be overthrown, and a mirror around every corner that reflects your own madness back. Viktor Vaughn, the chauvinistic underappreciated Hip-Hop lyrical miracle, combats his apparent obsession with self-destruction and breaks free from the restraints of his own mind Pr*son.
IN THE BACKSEAT by Kate Isabel Foley (Saturday, August 2 @ 8pm; after Chat-GPT Has a Knife)
Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive meets A Christmas Carol in an introspective magical realism narrative told through multiple timelines and one woman’s car. In the wake of a family tragedy, twenty-two-year-old English major Harper drops out of college to take an impulsive road trip across the US, and she won’t stop until she reaches the coast – it’s the best way to outrun the ghosts from her past. Until her ghosts start showing up in the backseat of her Subaru.
Friday, 8/1
🕑: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Doompacalypse
Host: Sondai NaNaBuluku
Info: When men self isolate and hide from the "real world", the mind becomes your sanctuary/Pr*son. It creates people to rebel with, a narcissistic ruler who needs to be overthrown, and a mirror around every corner that reflects your own madness back. Viktor Vaughn, the chauvinistic underappreciated Hip-Hop lyrical miracle, combats his apparent obsession with self-destruction and breaks free from the restraints of his own mind Pr*son.
🕑: 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Anatomy of a Racecar: a racing ballet
Host: maguire wilder
Info: Rosie loves racing, but her father won’t let her drive. He sits on the couch all day, watching her mother race, while Rosie secretly builds a car with the help of her trusty pit crew, the Spice Girls. An experimental play/ballet about grief, girlhood, and finding your own way.
Saturday, 8/2
🕑: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Chat-GPT Has a Knife
Host: Liggera Edmonds-Allen
Info: Chat-GPT has a knife. Thalia, a representative of humanity, has to convince them that our species is perfect; after all, we’ve got dirty limericks, cowboys, and Con O’Niel! They’ll take Chat-GPT on a tour of the best humanity has to offer in order to save us all — or die trying…
🕑: 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
In the Backseat
Host: Kate Isabel Foley
Info: Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive meets A Christmas Carol in an introspective magical realism narrative told through multiple timelines and one woman’s car. In the wake of a family tragedy, twenty-two-year-old English major Harper drops out of college to take an impulsive road trip across the US, and she won’t stop until she reaches the coast – it’s the best way to outrun the ghosts from her past. Until her ghosts start showing up in the backseat of her Subaru.
Sunday, 8/3
🕑: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
A Day or Two of Dirt
Host: Hannah Honey Shepard
Info: A surreal horror drama about five survivors of a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness. Safety from one another cannot be guaranteed. They must ask themselves: where do the finite edges of rationale blur into faith, and what role does trust have to play?
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