The six winners of the 2026 NotaBle Acts Ten-Minute and Site-Specific Playwriting Contests.

Sunday, July 26 through Wednesday, July 29, beginning nightly at 7:30 PM in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Courtyard. Performances are outdoors and weather-permitting. Patrons may wish to bring a seat cushion for Taking it to the Streets (seating is in the concrete amphitheatre of the BAG courtyard) and a cushion, blanket, or lawn chair for Street Scenes.

Run time: Taking it to the Streets: approximately 50 minutes.

                       Street Scenes: approximately 30 minutes.

Admission: by donation.

Taking it to the Streets: Four Ten-Minute Plays:

A.B., the Autonomous Boyfriend by Ashley Morehouse  

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Sadie gets an offer to test an amazing new invention promised to solve all her woes: a robot boyfriend market-researched to perfectly fulfill all women’s wants and needs.

Directed by Jorja Taylor and featuring Karlie Curtis, Simon Peterson, and Brandi Martin

The Rural Gap by Brandon Hicks

Best friends Justin and Matt are stuck, both in traffic and in their lives, waiting patiently (Justin) and frustratedly (Matt) for a chance to merge, but blocked at every turn by the inconveniently regularly-spaced cars of the Rural Gap.

Directed by Alex McAllister and Len Falkenstein and featuring Daniel Gallagher and Andrew Allen

Roped In by Hannah Crothers

After an especially wild and argument-filled night on the town, married couple Jamie and Olivia wake up tied back-to-back, unable to move, but perfectly situated to rehashing their grievances with one another. Is it a kidnapping, or a unique approach to marriage counselling?

Directed by Ella Coulombe and featuring Rhett Ellis and Allison Smith

Prom Prep and Demons by Margaret Andow

Tracey is fashion-blind (like colour blind, but for, you know, clothes..) and desperate to replace the hideous dress she has picked out for her prom tonight. So she turns to the obvious solution: conjuring a pair of fashion demons from Hell.

Directed by Goesta Struve-Dencher and featuring Diana Chavez, Elliott Nason, and Shannon Munn

The four ten-minute plays in Taking It to the Streets will begin at 7:30 PM at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Courtyard, and will be followed immediately afterwards (approximately 8:25 PM) by the two plays in Street Scenes, which will take place on The Green between the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and the pedestrian bridge over St. Anne’s Point Drive.

Street Scenes: Two Site-Specific Plays

The Song That Never Ends by Bet O’Toole

Two trees, Maple and Birch, reflect on the changes they have observed in both the human world and the environment over their many seasons on the banks of the Wolastoq.

Directed by Devin Rockwell and featuring Scott Harris and Cole Dunphy

The Anchor by Caleb Murray

In 1879 (or is it 2026?) a ship’s Master and Boy must figure out a way to get home to Saint John after Boy improvidently spends all their money on an impractically large and curiously statue-like anchor in Fredericton.

Directed by Alex McAllister and Len Falkenstein and featuring Daniel Gallagher and Andrew Allen