Saturday
24 Hour Play Festival
The Courthouse Center for the Arts, 3481 Kingstown Road (Route 138), West Kingston, R.I. (77 miles from Boston). 401-782-1018. 8 p.m. Tickets $10. www.courthousetheater.com.
As if writers weren't strange enough. Six playwrights descend on the Courthouse Theater at midnight to scribble a one-act play by 8:30 a.m. Then they have an hour to meet with a director, 45 minutes to choose a cast, and just over nine hours to whip their actors into shape. Be there for the 8 o'clock curtain to judge the results.