A short play by longtime Phillips Street resident, Rob Whitney, was among eight works featured in the two-day New Works Festival 2026, held Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 24-25, at The Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport.
Whitney’s short play, ‘Puck,’ which was performed during both days of the festival and had a running time of about nine and a half minutes, focused on a conversation between a father and his hockey-playing son in a basement of a Beacon Hill townhouse.
Both performances were directed by Arlene Bernard, with a real-life father-and-son acting duo playing the father-and-son characters.
‘Puck,’ which is Whitney’s first work written for the stage, was among eight short plays to be selected for inclusion in the festival from 195 submissions, he noted.