Last Rites / Making Friends

The Embassy Theatre presents two award-winning one act plays by Canadian playwright, Guy Newsham, opening Friday, June 17th.

Last Rites, directed by Hayden Davis, won the Canadian National One-Act Playwriting Competition in 2021. What would you admit to if you only had a few minutes left to live, or if you had an eternity? A priest visits a prisoner on Death Row, thirty minutes before the prisoner’s scheduled execution. The prisoner is searching for a purpose in his life, and is ready to confess his sins, but only if the priest goes first. The play stars Sawyer Jenkins as the prisoner and Taber Robinette as the priest.

Making Friends, directed by Jesse Puffenberger, was the winner of the 2019 Frostburg One-Act Playwriting Competition. David (Tyler Gilks) is divorced, middle-aged, and in danger of becoming a reclusive alcoholic. In a desperate act of self-preservation, his psyche summons back his childhood imaginary friend, Michael (Luke Vought), who has taken a different path to maturity, and has an agenda of his own. Jayna Raines also plays several roles, and the play is stage managed by Robert Smith.