14/48 -- The World's Quickest Theatre Festival
Oct. 25 - Oct. 26, 2019
Friday-Saturday
14/48 The World's Quickest Theatre Festival comes to Austin for its sixth year of wildly unexpected live performance!
The festival, which began in Seattle over fifteen years ago, brings together artist from across Austin's theatre and performance community to create 14 world-premiere plays in 48 hours! Each night audiences will see the performance of 7 plays that have been written, cast, directed, rehearsed, scored, and designed by a company of over 50 artists in the span of only 24 hours.
The entire process is then repeated the next day with seven new plays. Participants and audience members have the opportunity to complete the sentence: “I want to see seven ten-minute plays about _____.” One answer per night is chosen at random, and the writers spend the night crafting a play based on that theme. In the morning, directors choose scripts and casts at random. The band writes original music based on the theme, and designers build sets and find costumes.
THE 2019 14/48 FESTIVAL
YEAR 6: SHOW 1
- Friday, October 25, 2019
- 7:30 PM 9:30 PM
- ZACH Theatre Whisenhunt Stage (map)
Come check out the 7 plays written for the first night! Theme will be announced on Thursday 10/24!
Where: ZACH Theatre on the Whisenhunt Stage.
Address: 1510 Toomey Road Austin TX 78704
Parking: Parking in ZACH’s lot is $10 and will fill up quickly. We suggest parking in the Parks and Recreation lot just past the ZACH Lot. It will fill as well but is free!
YEAR 6: SHOW 2
- Friday, October 25, 2019
- 10:00 PM 11:30 PM
Come check out the 7 plays written for the first night! Theme will be announced on Thursday 10/24!
Where: ZACH Theatre on the Whisenhunt Stage.
Address: 1510 Toomey Road Austin TX 78704
Parking: Parking in ZACH’s lot is $10 and will fill up quickly. We suggest parking in the Parks and Recreation lot just past the ZACH Lot. It will fill as well but is free!
YEAR 6: SHOW 3
- Saturday, October 26, 2019
- 7:30 PM 9:00 PM
Come check out the 7 plays written for the second night! Theme will be announced on Friday 10/25!
Where: ZACH Theatre on the Whisenhunt Stage.
Address: 1510 Toomey Road Austin TX 78704
Parking: Parking in ZACH’s lot is $10 and will fill up quickly. We suggest parking in the Parks and Recreation lot just past the ZACH Lot. It will fill as well but is free!
YEAR 6: SHOW 4
- Saturday, October 26, 2019
- 10:00 PM 11:30 PM
Come check out the 7 plays written for the second night! Theme will be announced on Friday 10/25!
Where: ZACH Theatre on the Whisenhunt Stage.
Address: 1510 Toomey Road Austin TX 78704
Parking: Parking in ZACH’s lot is $10 and will fill up quickly. We suggest parking in the Parks and Recreation lot just past the ZACH Lot. It will fill as well but is free!
14/48 -- The World's Quickest Theatre Festival
by various
October 25 - October 26, 2019
Performances at 7:30 p.m. AND 9:30 p.m. each night.
Tickets $5, $10 and $20 plus servic fee, available online at
