presents
Unconventional
Shorts
Unconventional Shorts is a platform for artist connection and new script development. Each Unconventional Shorts event will feature different short form performances. Some will involve new work created via prompts provided by Theatre Crude. Some will involve works in progress from emerging local playwrights. Others may involve cabaret style performances from local artists looking to show off and flex their talent in front of a live audience.
Unconventional Shorts is an audience development program. It introduces audiences to never before seen work in a short form and at no upfront cost (the event is available to attend via suggested donation instead of a fixed ticket price) so that they will be less intimidated when we ask them to attend long form new work at our annual Theatre Crude Fringe Festival.
Unconventional Shorts is a live performance event series that serves as a fundraiser for Theatre Crude.
COMING UP
Level Up
D&D Liveplay
How It Works: In March, Unconventional Shorts will engage in some collaborative storytelling through the medium of Dungeons and Dragons. Come see a ridiculous adventure crafted in front of your very eyes by the decisions made by the players and by audience influence... Is this just improv? Yeah, kinda. But it's improv with more rules than a normal human has time to learn! Embrace your inner nerd and witness local performers pretend to be fantasy heroes who hit things with swords.
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10 Minute Plays
Brief, brand-new plays by local playwrights
How It Works: A crowd-favorite format, this event will feature ten minute plays by local playwrights, read by local performers. Each playwright will be given the same prompt and three weeks to write their play. We have no idea what these plays will ultimately contain. We will find out live, in front of an eager and adventurous audience, just what our local theatre creators are capable of. We expected the unexpected. That's Fringe, Baby!
How to Participate: Wanna come play? Sign ups to participate as a playwright and/or performer will open mid-April. Follow us on socials or sign up for our mailing list for updates!
Exquisite Corpse
Creative experimentation and collaboration
How It Works: Several of Oklahoma City's playwrights will "collaboratively" create a completely original piece of theatre - without knowing what their collaborators have written! Join us on Monday, June 22 at 7 pm to witness what genius or chaos ensues from this creative experiment in the Surrealist tradition.
How to Participate: Wanna come play? Sign ups to participate as a playwright and/or performer will open mid-June. Follow us on socials or sign up for our mailing list for updates!
Five Fifths
Inventive reimagination of a classic movie
How It Works: We take a well known movie or cult classic, break it into five parts and give each part to a different creative team. We ask them to devise an interpretation of that section without the knowledge of what the other teams are doing. All five parts will be brought together and performed in sequence during this one night only event. This year's movie will be announced soon! Follow us on socials or sign up for our mailing list for updates!
Past Shorts
August 18, 2025 Five Fifths of The Shining
July 21, 2025 Exquisite Corpse
May 20, 2025 10-Minute Plays
April 24, 2025 Monologue Roulette
March 19, 2025 Level Up: D&D Liveplay
August 19, 2024 Level Up: D&D Liveplay
July 21, 2024 Exquisite Corpse
May 20, 2024 Five Fifths of Back to the Future
April 15, 2024 10 Minute Plays
March 25, 2024 Monologue Roulette
July 17, 2023 Five Fifths of Twister
May 15, 2023 10 Minute Plays
March 23, 2023 Monologue Roulette
April 26, 2022 10 Minute Plays