Machines of the Working Class

Anatomically correct robots, a vicious band of wounded Vikings and a roaming group of ghostly foxes trek to the Old Town Playhouse in this year’s collection of late-night shorts that range from violently funny to just flat-out violent. In the satirical “Mulvar is Correct Candidate,” an alien’s campaign ad betrays his shallow understanding of Earth’s political system, while in “Slug Invasion” a hungry army of elite mollusk soldiers take on an elderly lady in a battle for garden space. “Zoltan: The Hungarian Gangster of Love” is the Don Juan of his rural village, and two robots with delusions of grandeur plan the ultimate heist in “Machines of the Working Class.” These shorts—and more!—are not for the faint of heart.