December One-Act Plays Festival Reviewed in New York Teacher

UFT Players’ one-act plays 

Comedies, dramas on the bill

DECEMBER 20, 2012 NEW YORK TEACHER ISSUE

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Warren Wyss (at back) plays the dictatorial group leader invoking the weight-loss creed in “The Weight Nazis,” which was written by Barbara Haspel and directed by Lolly Yacker. Weight-loss-group members include Milton Polsky (as Gov. Chris Crisco), Rosalie Hollingsworth, Leona Ackerman and Marjorie Bryant. More photos...

Six one-act plays put on by the UFT Players made for an evening of solid entertainment as the ensemble, for its eighth year, performed staged readings to a full house at UFT headquarters on Dec. 7. Group members produced, wrote and starred in the new productions, which included comedies about the angst of waiting on a date to call, the vagaries of corporate speak, dining with an overbearing mother-in-law and the petty tyrannies of weight-loss instructors. Dramas included two teacher job applicants chatting as they wait to be interviewed by an otherwise preoccupied principal and the visions of a pair of assassins in the hours leading up to the shooting of Indira Gandhi. A discussion with the theater-going audience followed the plays.