Tapas Short Play Festival
The 18th season of the Tapas Short Play Festival is scheduled for October 2026 in Guerneville. Auditions are scheduled for Sunday, June 28 and Monday, June 29.
The chosen plays are:
- The Yellow Hyacinth by Lorri Comer
- Twinkle, Twinkle by Cherielyn Ferguson
- Schmoopie's Salvation by Thomas Graven
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Susan Sher
- Invisible by Ellen Weed
- Post Toast by Audrey Wells
The Masonic Lodge is located at the corner of Third and Church Streets in Guerneville. Its official address is 14040 Church St., but please note that the entrance to the theater space is on Third Street.
Curtain time is 7 pm Fridays and Saturdays and 2 pm for Sunday matinees. The door will open a half hour earlier. The Masonic Lodge is located at 14040 Church Street. The entrance is around the corner on Third Street, one block north of Main Street.
Tickets are $20 general admission and Pay What You Will on the first two Fridays, October 2 and October 9. Seating is limited so consider making reservations at Eventbrite. Tickets, cash or check only, will also be available at the door.
Venue: Mt. Jackson Masonic Lodge
Map: Mt. Jackson Masonic Lodge
Videos
The videos of Tapas 2024 and Tapas 2025 will be available soon.
Tapas2023
Some of our 2023 Tapas plays are available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3dzfe7yuyM
Pandemic Tapas
In the meantime, in case you missed our videos or want to see them again, here are our pandemic videos.
If you enjoy these plays, please consider making a donation as generous as you can to support local community theater by clicking on the DONATE button.
Turtle Shopping
Noel Yates
Turtle Shopping, by Scott McMorrow, follows a family's soup recipes from grandmother's 1900 Atlantic crossing - when she taught the ship's cook to make borscht - to the soups made by her daughter and granddaughter, who continue to love making soups - other than borscht.
Turtle Shopping runs 13 minutes and is available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/2yBP3aTaxxw
Aunt Velma Considers Changing Religion
Aunt Velma Considers Changing Religion, by John Arnold, is a comic ten-minute solo chat by an elderly Catholic woman in small town northern Michigan, who shares her front porch musings with a visiting ten-year-old nephew.
Aunt Velma Considers Changing Religionruns 17 minutes and is available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/10BkbU0Qxuo
Destiny, Free Will or Luck of the Irish
Destiny, Free Will or Luck of the Irish, by our company's own Jacquelyn Wells, features two strangers who have a chance rainy day bar encounter. Or is it destiny? Or something else? Things don't always work out the way one expects them to.
Destiny, Free Will or Luck of the Irish runs 12 minutes and is available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/9Xh1pNqApgI
Exposure
Bridgette Dutta Portman’s sardonic 19-minute play Exposure, set on a hillside in the mythic past, is about a class struggle between a king, who has recently usurped the throne, and a shepherd, who witnesses him surreptitiously leaving a baby on this hillside.
Director Darlene Kersnar filmed this play using traditional cinematic techniques.
Exposure runs 19 minutes and is available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/TzwJxd9SNrg
Florida
Florida, by Steven Doloff, takes place on a quiet sidewalk in New York City. A homeless man attempts to comfort his homeless companion who is losing her memory. For this touching and humorous slice of life director Diana Grogg filmed the entire piece in a single take, using her smart phone.
Florida runs 19 minutes and is available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/JUHw_We5KWs
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