KWLT’s ultimate theatrical competition is back for its twelfth year.
What is this?
March Madness is a contest of theatrical vision. Production teams are given a short script with wide latitude for interpretation, and have a week to turn it into a staged play. Actors are auditioned the day after the teams get the script, and seven days later: showtime!
The results are unpredictable, and that’s just the way we like it.
Tickets are now on sale!
Tickets for the evening performance of March Madness are now on sale. The 2pm matinee is pay-what-you-can at the door.
This year’s script: Sheep Tricks by Caspian Stonehouse
If you don’t want to come into this year’s event in the dark, here’s a copy of the script for your perusal.
Caspian Stonehouse was thinking about writing a March Madness script when he had a vision; a wolf thinks he’s got a sheep right where he wants her, when suddenly she pulls a gun on him. Thus, Sheep Tricks was born, in much the same way, and hopefully with the same eventual reknown, as Frankenstein or Twilight. He is very excited to see what the different teams do with this story, particularly regarding the characters A and R, and the relationship between their sides.
This is Cas’s 6th March Madness (what?!) but his first time writing the script. He has heretofore participated on a team as a stage manager or director. As a co/director he has won the Audience Favourite award three times for Minor Discord (2018) Super Compelling (2019), and Role Of The Dice (2024). Other shows he has written include The Evil Snake Lady Is Going To Ruin Your Life, which premiered at the New Works Festival last year. When he is not writing, he is stage managing – credits include The Funeral to End All Funerals and Pippin, on which he was working when he wrote this show & which 100% inspired the presence of tricks in this show.
He would like to dedicate this show to his grandmother, who always gave him alone out of all his cousins sheep-themed gifts, for inscrutable grandmotherly reasons. There is a version of this show in some impossible universe where Sheep A is Grandma Stonehouse, and he hopes she can watch it wherever she is now. Love you, grandma.