ECHO Youth Theatre Presents: The Actor's Nightmare and Powerline

Join us at the village theatre for a wonderful night of two comedic one-act plays produced by our very own ECHO Youth!

Power Line: by Don Zolidis

Directed by Brenden Savoy
Mom and Dad want their freeloading kids to get jobs, but nothing could compete with the
ultimate gig for high school kids that they had in 1989. As a Game Counselor answering calls on the Power Line, you could bring hope to people with nothing to lose but 99 cents an hour:
people who are really stuck in a video game. In his pre-Dad days, young Gilbert learns the
ropes from fellow weirdos as the quirky Counselors field calls from the lovelorn, the overly
immersed, and the blood thirsty. Battling panic attacks on the phone is tougher than dodging
barrels at first, but a talented coworker takes an interest in helping Gilbert...and maybe more.

The Actor's Nightmare: by Christopher Durang

Directed by Vanessa Goetz and Lina Janeski
Having casually wandered onstage, George is informed that one of the actors, Eddie, has been
in an auto accident and he must replace him immediately, but he doesn’t know what play is
being performed. As he fumbles through one missed cue after another the other actors shift to
Hamlet, then a play by Samuel Beckett, and then a climactic scene from what might well be A
Man for All Seasons—by which time the disconcerted George literally, “loses the plot”.