Hindsight 2021
Festival of short Zoom Plays
A new festival of ten-minute plays about and for this moment.
We put out a nation-wide call to playwrights for previously unpublished, unproduced works of theatre written specifically to be produced remotely on Zoom and focused on current events.
This is the resulting 12 plays
LIVESTREAM Jan 8 -17 , 2021
Tickets $15-30
ON-DEMAND JAN 18 -31 , 2021
Tickets $10
$30 ALL ACCESS VIP PASS
$15 LIVESTREAM
$10 ON-DEMAND
EPISODES
PRICING
SCHEDULE
Pacific Standard Time
LIVESTREAM
Fri Jan 8, 8pm | Episodes A & B
Sat Jan 9, 8pm | Episodes C & D
Sun Jan 10 2pm | Episodes A & C
Thur Jan 14, 7pm | Episodes B & D
Fri Jan 15, 8pm | Episodes A & D
Sat Jan 16, 8pm | Episodes B & C
Sun Jan 17 2pm | Episodes A, B
Sun Jan 17, 3:30pm | Episodes C, D
VIDEO REPLAYS
Something interrupts your live show? Catch the replay. Available the day after your date for 24 hours.
ON DEMAND (pre-recorded)
Jan 18 - Feb 14, 2021
72 hour rental period.
Choose from episode A, B, C or D
TICKET PRICE
$30 ALL ACCESS VIP PASS
$15 LIVESTREAM
$10 ON-DEMAND
LIVESTREAM Jan 8 -17 , 2021
Tickets $15-30
ON-DEMAND JAN 18 -31 , 2021
Tickets $10
EPISODE A: Comedies about Technology
Get Sexy on Zoom
Andrea Aptecker | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Two divorced single parents meet on Zoom during a pandemic. Their fun flirty Zoom chat devolves into malaise. She distrusts his politics, and questions his pandemic social distancing habits. He just wants to have sexy fun.
Virtual Happy Hour
Richard Castle | North Hollywood, California
Technophobe Pam is horrified when her best friend brings a digital date to her weekly online happy hour.
Comedy
Alexa the Liar
Guy Newsham | Ottawa, Canada
A man wants answers, Alexa has other ideas. A single man engages his smart speaker to help him find love and gain a promotion. However, after a few unkind words, he is shocked to discover that Alexa is smarter than he thought. A play about intelligence, both artificial and emotional. Comedy
EPISODE B: Mystery / Suspense / Fantasy
Sweatpants
Linda Lau and Rae Mansfield | Sebastopol, CA
Isabel and Asa are on their weekly Zoom call when Asa begins to freak out about a possible serial killer on the loose. Could the killer be a member of their quarantine bubble? Or is Asa just paranoid?
Mystery
PerSEVERance
David Lipschutz | Chicago, Illinois
A live online workout class is interrupted by mysterious and potentially sinister events.
Suspense
Stinkiest Thing
Adam Szudrich | Australia
The Stinkiest Thing is found, loved, lost and left on the last spoonful of dirt remaining on planet earth.
Fantasy
EPISODE C: COMEDY
No Regrets
John Minigan | Massachusetts
When Charlene’s workday begins with voicemails from a nightmare client, she knows it will take all of her wits to solve their problem.
Surf's Up
Ken Levine | Los Angeles
Peter announces to his Millennial daughter, Wendy that he has quit his job and is going on an “endless summer” to surf around the world. And he invites her to shake up her button-down life and join him.
An Interview with a George
Greg Vovos | Rocky River, Ohio
Two people on opposite sides of a video job interview find they have something beyond work to offer the other.
EPISODE D: DRAMA
Seconds
Ken Preuss | Oviedo, Florida
Two twenty-something women, quarantined apart after a first date, connect online in hopes of arranging a second one.
No Right Time
Jackie Martin | Norwood, MA
After a difficult night in the ER, Kevin checks in with his husband, David. Kevin’s ready for a tough conversation about the future. David isn’t.
Ava Hearts Riley
Cris Eli Blak | Louisville, KY
Ava, a Black girl, and Riley, a white girl, had what seemed like the perfect relationship until a bad encounter one night with Riley's parents at her home. A few days later, after not talking at all, the girls hop on a video call to try to work things out, leading to a raw conversation about what it means to live in certain skin in uncertain times.
