Fryeburg Town Column: Fryeburg Academy Theater to present one-act play 'Last Tuesday' Feb. 28

Fryeburg Academy Theater will present its 2020 One-Act Festival play, “Last Tuesday” on Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. The people in Donald Margulies’ play are strangers on a train, but not to us. They are familiar figures on a Metro-North train going from Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan to New Haven — a man talking too loudly on his cellphone, a woman isolated with her Discman, another silently reading the Times, a couple coordinating their weekend’s activities.

In the triviality of their lives, they are us. But something unexpected happens that jolts the audience, breaking it from the trance-like state of listening to mundane prattle to being stunned by the shock of a fantastical force. In an instant, the short work becomes something else. Admission is free, but donations will be gratefully accepted.