14/48: The World's Quickest Theater Festival

14/48: The World's Quickest Theater Festival is back this Summer!

We'll be back inside the Seattle Center Armory for two weekends.

Come and see 14 plays written, cast, directed, rehearsed, scored, designed, and premiered in 48 hours!  Seven new plays each day (performed twice: 7:30pm and 10:00pm), 14 new plays each weekend! Different artists each weekend. 

Want to know more?

Here’s how it all works…

Early Thursday Night

After tapping the ceremonial 14/48 Keg, all the participants choose a theme by completing this sentence: “Theater would be a lot more interesting if there were seven ten-minute plays about _____.”

One answer is chosen at random and that becomes the theme for the following evening. Seven terrified, excited, caffeinated writers must submit a brand new 10-minute play based on the theme by 8am Friday morning.

Friday Morning

Seven directors gather and each randomly draw one play. Thirty minutes later, the directors blindly choose actors names on slips of paper to cast the show.

That Day

The band shows up to provide music and sound, designers create all technical aspects of each show as the directors and their casts rehearse all day. Each play gets 20 minutes of tech rehearsal.

Friday Evening

The seven plays have their World Premiere at 7:30pm and Final Performance at 10:00pm.

The 8pm audience provides the theme for Saturday’s show via a random drawing and the seven writers go home to start the process all over again to culminate with seven brand new scripts for Saturday evening at 7:30pm and 10:00pm, thus creating 14 plays in 48 hours.