Time Will Tell
When we first learned about FlashPlays — 80 plays by 48 playwrights, performed by 50 actors in a single night — we were invited to consider the history of Flash Fiction, such as that one so often attributed to Hemingway: “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Instead, we were reminded of photography, since as of 2012, it was estimated that humans had taken some 3.8 trillion photographs. There are websites that will take 10,000 snapshots of your family, travels, or friends and arrange them into a single image, a mosaic of captured moments — a gimmicky idea, but we defy anyone to resist getting lost in the looking. We hope FlashPlays will work a bit like this. Each micro-performance will run between 30 seconds and two minutes and — while we don’t expect all 80 of them to be masterpieces — taken as a whole, we think they will paint a very interesting picture of our times. The FlashPlays festival is a benefit for the Playwrights Foundation, a renowned play development lab that was founded in 1976 to encourage new dynamic voices.
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