The spook-tacular third annual Halloween Shorts is returning to The Carrboro ArtsCenter Saturday.
The Halloween Shorts event is a series of plays, called “shorts,” written by several local playwrights, starring local actors and actresses, which revolve around the many festivities surrounding this ghoulish time of year.
Recently, the Halloween show has increased in popularity for its reputation as an entertaining show.
“An evening about Halloween plays I hope would attract people. Nobody else does anything like that around here,” said Mark Cornell, one of the contributing playwrights. .
“Halloween has a kind of flavor to it that lends itself to interesting storytelling.”
John Paul Middlesworth, a local playwright whose piece for Halloween Shorts is called “Little Green Man,” features a father who takes his fully costumed son out trick-or-treating. The pair returns home from trick-or-treating with a certain mishap or two.
“There is some weirdness. The child has a bucket full of compost and a dead animal,” Middlesworth said. “There are a few surprises after that.”
The show includes a wide variety of short plays, ranging from the supernatural to ghost stories. Cornell’s short features two friends who are involved in a bridge collapse, and eight days later, strange events begin to happen.
“It’s got a lot of humor, but it’s a fairly dark play,” he said.
