Sarasota’s Starlite Theatre stages four new comedies

Besides staging an entertaining and unusual evening of theater for four days every month, Starlite Players has given a lot of playwrights in the Bradenton-Sarasota area a chance to have their work produced. In fact, since the company debuted last summer, it has produced 33 comic plays, all by area writers. Most of them would not have had a chance to make it to the stage otherwise, simply because few companies produce this kind of work.

Starlite Players’ anthology for May is titled “Mind Games,” but from the synopses the company has provided the title doesn’t seem to have much relevance to the actual plays.

▪  “Cabin Pressure” by William H. Sikorski has to do with a man seated on a plane between two women and finding himself a captive audience for their very private phone conversations.

▪  “Weekly Visit” by Marvin Albert has a man visiting his mother in her assisted living facility, fearfully expecting a barrage of guilt and she doesn’t disappoint.

▪  “Reverse Psychology” by George Freek revolves around a woman prepping her fiance for a job interview. The innocuous situation quickly turns bizarre.

▪  “The Company You Keep” by Nicole Cunningham is about two women who vie for presidency of the PTA while their daughters compete for homecoming queen.

Details: May 19-22, The Starlite Room, 1001 Cocoanut Ave., Sarasota. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 6:30 p.m. Sunday; $17. 941-587-8290, starliteplayers.com

This story was originally published May 18, 2016 at 5:41 PM with the headline "Sarasota’s Starlite Theatre stages four new comedies."