Twenty-Four Hour Theatre

Hastily put in my car my "costume" for the twenty-four hour theatre and left for Stockton State about 8:15.  When I arrived, I was delighted to find Louise and Dayle from my Players & Playwrights group, as well as Dave S., from Little Egg Theatre Company.  Dave was directing, the rest of us acting.
We all got our scripts, then dispersed to various rehearsal places on campus.  I found I was to be "Carol," a kind of kooky earth mother to three undergraduates.  Don't think it didn't cross my mind that I'm old enough to be, not just their mother, but their grandmother.
Howsomever...we were directed by Tyler, who is the art gallery director at the college, a very nice, congenial guy and unobtrusive director.  Rehearsed the short (of hardly ten-minute duration, I think) play most of the day, but also had time to chat and explore the campus a bit.  I didn't know where Dayle and Louise were rehearsing (they were in different plays), but was pleased to meet up with the former at what seemed to be the only venue for lunch, a pizza joint, and we ate together.
More rehearsal later, then we gathered at the theatre for one on stage.  The place is a dream, compared to anywhere else I've perfomed.  It boosts a large backstage area and a "green room" where performers wait before going on.  This is furnished with comfortable chairs, several tables, and wonder of wonders, two adjoining areas with a make-up rooms, restrooms, and even showers, for heaven's sake.  What luxury!
Anyway, we went on as the fourth of five short plays.  The idea was that the playwrights would be given only twenty-four hours to write a play, and each had to contain a reference to a particular entity.  Last night, the phrase "snooze button" had to be included and was worked into each--cute idea and lots of fun.
We had a fairly good audience--the large theatre certainly wasn't filled, but there were enough people to laugh and applaud so you could hear them.  Our little play, o my darlings, was written by John P. (he often uses the affectation of lower case titles; silly, if you ask me), who teaches at Stockton and is also our leader in P & P.  We all agreed it went very well.
It was a fun day, to say the least, and one more interesting aspect of the art of theatre of which I love being part.