STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

Join in on a mad, messy, wild form of theater-making when the Liberty Theatre Company holds its third annual 24-Hour Theatre Festival.

The theater company is taking signups now for those who would like to spend 24 hours creating a 5- to 10-minute skit, secure the props and rehearse the play before performing it in front of a live audience.

Participants will meet at The Liberty Theater in Hailey at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 4, where they will join the team they’ve organized or jump into a team or professionals and amateurs  that The Liberty Theatre Company creates for them.

There, they will receive a set of required elements for their piece so they can get started.

All ages are welcome. No experience in writing, directing or acting is required.

Last year’s festival included a cute piece about a family bickering back and forth on a high-speed space tram as the Mopheads driving them discuss how humans pay exorbitant sums of capital to vacate their typical premises to go on a thing called vacation where they can exercise frustration upon one another elsewhere.

Another involved a cringe-worthy road trip, thanks to a carful of eccentric hitchhikers the driver picked up along the way. Curtis Hopfenbeck took part in a mishmash of Shakespeare with such lines as “To drink or not to drink—what a silly question!”

Twelve-year-old Mykala McCann starred in “The Old Curiosity Shop,” while Karen Nelsen, Paige Klune and Alex Taylor fawned over a golf pro played by chiropractor Dan Parke.

Sign up at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScE2GiwQ2wmGZvEmIYIsICwamhivU1MSZ97q5a1F-IC2x68nQ/viewform

Questions? Email info@libertytheatrecompany.org.