Maureen McGuigan’s Remember, You Must Die: a comedy is back this month as one of two solo plays performed by their author in the Scranton Fringe Festival summer mainstage production Acting Alone. The show will also feature Mandy Pennington’s new work Girl Walks Into A Movie Theater under the direction of Simone Daniel.

Although I’ve been working at Lackawanna College in Scranton for eight years as an adjunct professor in the humanities, the school has not had its own theatre program for a long time. Acting Alone will only be the second time I’ve staged a show in that gorgeous old theater. Fun fact: The first time was the second production of The Vagina Monologues we produced in Scranton (2003) to raise funds for the Women’s Resource Center and Domestic Violence Services Center. I got to act in that one (“My Angry Vagina”) and connecting with that packed house was exhilarating. When I complain about how much I don’t enjoy acting, I try to remember that show because it was a clear exception.

Back to the present.

Performances of Acting Alone are scheduled at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, June 25-27. Masks are required at Thursday’s show. There will also be a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday.

Tickets can be purchased NOW directly from ScrantonFringe. org.