by Paul Gillis
"Other Plans" is a set of four short plays by Stephanie Alice Scarpinato. It's being presented by Another Life Productions at the Scientarium, a venue specially created by the Fringe Festival on D Street. In the first play, a scheming young woman tries to steal a precious family rosary away from her sick cousin. That's what you call old-time religion!
In "Hungry no More", a woman starts her new job--writing bogus letters, supposedly from starving children, to send to a crooked charity's potential donors. It begins to dawn on her that this might not be the most ethical line of work...
"If I Had a Hammer" portrays the tense relationship between a middle-aged man and his son in the era of civil rights protests. The young man has gotten in trouble for protesting, and his father wants him to just accept the prevailing attitudes of the other white people in their small town. But this forces the father to confront how he swept his own moral outrage under the rug many years ago.
The last play, "That's Amore", is the most upbeat. A young woman comes to her grandparents' house to get them to come to a family dinner where they will meet her fiance and his family. They resist, but she does her best to win them over. Ethnic humor, of the Italian and Irish varieties, abounds.
For more photos of these productions, see my web gallery at
http://paulgillis.phanfare.com/album/338390/487613#imageID=22275771
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