Taking on a medieval morality play and playing it for laughs is a daunting task, but Once More Theatre is committed to ambitious projects like productions for The Community College of Philadelphia’s reentry program for currently and recently incarcerated students. They also produce rarely seen classic plays. For this venture, Jimmy Guckin, a veteran of the Irish Heritage Theatre, has adapted the medieval morality play “Everyman” into a very hip one-act being shown in the black box upstairs at Plays and Players...

Tristan Tzara called his play THE GAS HEART “the greatest three-act hoax of the century.” While structurally the play is built into three acts, the whole thing runs at only about twenty minutes. Once More Theatre embraces the Dadaist poetry in his text through their incarnation of the play. It’s a play which throws semiotics out of the window while also relying on symbols whose interpretation rests entirely on the viewer...

Inequality of wealth and poverty were glaringly present in the society of old Athens, our forefather democracy, and Aristophanes found comic fodder there. The youthful cast of Once More Theater embody high spirits, belly laughs, clever off-center meditations, and all-around comic anarchy in Aristophanes’s Plutus, the key conceit of which is that the god of wealth has been blinded and cannot see who deserves to get money and who doesn’t...

In a co-production with Plays and Players, Once More Theatre presents Aristophanes’ rarely-seen comedy about wealth and inequality in ancient Greece. Though the play was first produced in 408 BC and revised in 388 BC, it couldn’t be more significant than it is now, with the world’s ongoing economic crisis and the affluent 1% of our country controlling more than its fair share of the finances...