An elderly shopkeeper tells a customer about his experiences as a prominent actor's understudy for various decades. The customer witnesses how the old man's obsessions with his unfulfilling acting career still occupy his everyday thoughts and behaviors.

A group of high-class Polish Jews raucously enjoy a stunning rendition of Macbeth until German police descend upon them.

In a near future world, a famous computerized drama director is pushed beyond his artistic limits when a random science fiction writer asks him to adapt his novel for the digital stage—for the alluring incentive of real gold payment.

Two men putting on a production for their New York theater company seek out a legendary, elderly actor, but upon finding him, they meet a man as dilapidated as the theater he once worked for.

A man recalls his intimate friendship with his former English professor, who resolved to fuel his unsatisfied desire for playwriting during the time they were apart. In their reunion decades later, instead of the brilliant play he promised, the professor shows his former student a disturbing product of his mental instability.

A college student uses brutal method acting techniques to rehearse Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull under a tyrannical director. In the process, he and his co-star confront their own misery and arising feelings of love.

A young Shakespearean play actor finds himself stuck in 6 million year time loop being observed by high-school aged aliens. As John relives the same morning repeatedly--one where his wife leaves him--he becomes more aware of how important connections are as time is not as infinite as he assumes.

An actress rolls through the plan of a rehearsed production while making small mistakes to spite the production team.

When Pauline’s affair with the director of the amateur production of “Eurydice” turns serious, Pauline leaves her husband in the middle of their vacation, unwittingly leaving her children behind as well.

A former theater worker recalls touring Ireland during a politically tumultuous time and an experience that turned him vegetarian.