The Strawberry One-Act Festival is celebrating its 30th season, the brainchild of Artistic Director, Van Dirk Fisher, is a play competition in which the audience and the theatre’s judges cast their votes to select the best play of the season.

The 30th season of the Strawberry One-Act Festival, founded by Riant Theatre Artistic Director Van Dirk Fisher in 1995, will feature 31 short one-acts in competition, as well as three full-length plays. We caught up with the playwrights of this year’s full-lengths about their work. Patrick Hamilton, Before the Fall Dates: Wed, July 19 at 9pm / Fri, July 21 at 9pm / Thurs, July 27 at 7pm / Sat, July 29 at 7pm Tell us about your play! Before the Fall is a play about three people who go to work at their office one morning only to have their world violently explode into chaos. Thrown into an existential crisis, they each desperately try to reconcile their situation and come to grips with the possibility of their own deaths. Through this process, they begin to understand what it means to die, but also what it means to live. What have been the most exciting things about seeing your show jump from the page to the stage? There is a lot about this show that I am excited to share with people. It touches on some very difficult and personal issues and it will have a strong effect on everyone who watches it. I’m happy to be working with such strong actors. The roles will require much from the t …Read more