Lewis & Clark’s Theatre Department Presents the Fall 2025 One-Act Festival: Love is Blind

October 2nd, 3rd and 4th at 7:30pm
Three short and powerful one-act plays about how love can both blind and bind in unexpected ways.

Courting 101 By Yuri Baranovsky
Director: Brodie Joseph

Courting 101 is a play about a step by step class designed to unravel the mysteries about romance and dating while showing you the DOs and DON’Ts of what to do during certain situations that might come up when trying to start a relationship. This “class” introduces you to 4 crucial steps that YOU need to succeed in courtship.

Real American Dinner Party By Jen Silverman
Director: Andrew Van Voorhees

A dinner party with two jealous sisters and their boyfriends takes a dark turn in this play by Jen Silverman. Real American Dinner Party explores the dynamics of losing touch with one’s authenticity and agency in pursuit of security within a relational or societal context, and the superficiality, dissonance, and blindness that results.

The Gulf by Audrey Cefaly
Director: Lila Kunkel

The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra and Betty troll the flats looking for redfish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life with career picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent turn as they work through their messy relationship.

“As funny as it is powerful, as tender as it is passionate, The Gulf reveals a pair of volatile lovers whose relationship is as sharp as a fishing knife - pointed and dangerous.” – Broadway World.