NORTH HAVEN - Fighting princesses and bears who snack on pizza delivery guys are only a few of the wildly imaginative plays being performed this weekend at Waterman's Community Center in North Haven. On May 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. and on May 19 at 1 p.m., theater goers will get to experience seven original full-stage productions about 15 minutes each. The scriptwriters range in age from 9 to 65.

"Back in February we put out a call for scripts from local and summer residents and these were the best of the submissions," said Waterman's Program Director William Trevaskis. "We've gotten a lot of fantasy topics this year. For example, one of the plays written by a third-grade student named Sierra Koerber Marxis is called Brave Princess, and is about a princess who teaches knights how to fight. "It's great, it's very imaginative, very fast-paced," said Trevaskis, who also does sound design for these plays.

As for the adult plays, Jake Greenlaw (who play drums for the Toughcats) and Adam Alexander have put together a dark comedy called Craig? about a pizza delivery man who thinks all bears are friendly until he is eaten by one. Lest we give it away, there is a twist, apparently involving a second pizza delivery guy and a second bear.

Other plays are written by Katherine White, Jacqueline Clark, Sam Minot, Marten Dunn and Terry Goodhue; directed by Courtney Naliboff, AC Alexander and JJ Greenlaw and Terry Goodhue.

This is the second year Waterman's Community Center has put on this Play Writing Festival with most of the actors, sets and production drawn from students and faculty from the North Haven Community School.

Tickets are $7/$10. To get tickets, call William Trevaskis at 207-867-2129 or email him at programs@watermans.org

Kay Stephens can be reached at news@penbaypilot.com