Be Bold! Production’s 15th annual Players Theatre BOO Short Play Festival opened last weekend at The Players Theatre in the West Village with Week 1, which showcased five original short plays by five different playwrights. The plays revolved around the theme ‘BOO!’, containing spooky or supernatural elements in the run up to Halloween. Each weekend for three weeks in October, a new selection of 15-minute original plays premieres to embrace the macabre – making audiences scream or laugh, depending on the play.
ast weekend’s audience-selected winner was ‘Shadows in the Mirror’, written by Reginald Jackson and directed by Kubbi. In ‘Shadows in the Mirror’, Marcus (Joshua G. Evans) is lamenting to his roommate Elena (Chastity Perez) about his recent breakup and how lately he feels like he is being watched. Soon Marcus’s ex David shows up and reveals he has been seeing strange things with his reflection in the mirror. Marcus looks in his own mirror and sees that the reflection in it doesn’t match him, either. The reflection (Torreke Evans) soon turns corporeal and comes out of the mirror. It tries to take over Marcus’s body, since it thinks that Marcus doesn’t stand up for himself despite the rage he feels about being belittled in life. Will he become possessed or will the spirit be driven back into the mirror?