Sarasota’s Starlite Players present four short plays

Starlite Players in Sarasota always groups its anthologies of new comedies under a title that loosely describes a theme. For August, it’s “Social Savvy.” From the synopses of the short plays, it seems that the title simply means that they all deal with interactions between human beings.

The plays, as always, are unpublished and relatively new. They are:

▪  “Mark My Worms” by Cary Pepper. Two actors have been cast in a never-before-seen play by the world-class absurdist LaSalle Montclare, but they must perform the play exactly as written, with typos and all. (“I’ve got a bun. Come out or I’ll hoot.”) Was Montclare the brilliant satirist his legacy claims, or just a lousy typist?

▪  “Putt-Putt” by George Sapio. Members of an advertising agency are troubled when one of their team proposes a new development idea, a Biblical/Christian-themed miniature golf course.

▪  “Man in the Basement” by Arlene Hutton. Hutton, an FSU/Asolo alumna, is known as Beth Lincks to her local friends. “Man in the Basement” has to do with a suburban wife who discovers that a homeless man has been living in her basement.

▪  “Galoshes (Unprodigal Son)” by Robert Brophy is premiering at Starlite. Divorced Martin is old enough to know what he wants but his very Catholic, very controlling mother has her own ideas. One of them is that he can best protect himself by never going out without wearing galoshes.

Details: Aug. 18-21, The Starlite Room, 1001 Cocoanut Ave., Sarasota. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 6:30 p.m. Sunday. $17.50. 941-587-8290, starliteplayers.com.

This story was originally published August 17, 2016 at 5:15 PM with the headline "Sarasota’s Starlite Players present four short plays."