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First, the idea is totally insane and gave us anxiety just thinking about it. Fourteen plays, written, directed and performed in front of a live audience in 48 hours. If you're an actor, writer, performer, or have ever been on a stage, you'd certainly understand. Deep breaths. What is certainly a weekend of chaos for all parties involved in the production of the world's quickest theater festival however, composed itself into a relatively well oiled machine come the 8 p.m. curtain.

To say that 14/48--the theater festival created entirely in the space of a weekend--is to the stage what blogging is to the written word would be more than a little insulting to 14/48, but the comparison does hold some water: in each ideas go, in the blink of an eye, from conception to the screen/stage where they fail or touch hearts without the benefit of a final (or second) draft. Local playwright Paul Mullin describes writing for the festival like this:

The Ten Thousand Things is a play by Seattle playwright Paul Mullin, showing at WET through June 16. Tickets are $15 general, $10 students/seniors. Shows are Thursdays through Mondays.