Don’t like this Studio Players’ play? Wait two minutes and they’ll do a new one for you.

Studio Players is closing out its first full season since 2018-19 with a show that’s a lot like Kentucky weather: If you don’t like the play, wait two minutes. It will change.

“Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” is a collection of 30 plays clocking in around the same amount of time it takes to run a Kentucky Derby, which a 15-actor ensemble aims to perform in 60 minutes. There will be a clock next to the stage, counting down the hour.

Sound like a challenge? There’s more.

The plays are performed at random, as selected by the audience, so the actors never know what’s next. Raising the degree of difficulty is set pieces that the actors have to put in place for each show which, again, will be announced at random. So, even more than usual in live theater, it will be a different show every night.

“It’s like an improv show you rehearse,” said Sharon Sikorski, a veteran Studio Players actor who is part of the cast.

Studio newcomer Sonia Scorsone said, “It’s a growth experience for an actor. It makes you focus.”

The show was the brainchild of playwright Greg Allen, when he was a founding member of the Neo-Futurists, an experimental theater troupe based in Chicago. “Too Much Light” is the longest running show in the history of Chicago theater having opened in 1988. During the pandemic, it went online as “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Zoom.” There was also a long-running New York edition from 2004 to 2016.

“It’s fun,” said director Steve Meadows, who directed the show when he was theater director at Danville High School, which he retired from three years ago. “It was one of the last shows I did. And it was so much fun. It was a really good one to do with kids.”

There are more than 30 plays available for the show, and Meadows says 18 to 20 are the same shows he did with Danville, but some of the plays are more appropriate for adults than students.

The plays represent a wide range of content from absurd, physical comedy to literary satires like Mr. Science explaining the plot of Shakespeare’s “Othello” to genuinely moving, thought-provoking monologues.

When the audience comes in, they will see a line strung across the stage with thirty pieces of paper numbered 1 through 30 hanging by clothespins. Folded into the sheets of paper are the names of the shows. After a play has concluded with the declaration, “Curtain,” the actors come out and ask the audience for a number. When a number is picked, one of the actors will grab the paper, read the name of the play, and that play will be performed.

The actors can’t game the system by memorizing the numbers of plays because the numbers and play titles will be reshuffled for every performance.

“My favorite show in the bunch of the 30 is called ‘Déjà vu,’” Meadows said. “’Déjà Vu’ is really fun because you never know what’s gonna happen, and basically what happens is, when that one gets called, whatever play just happened happens again.”

The first night the cast rehearsed together with random selection, “Déjà vu” was the second to last selection prompting the replaying of “The Story of Hand In Glove,” which has one of the more complex set arrangements in the show, so the cast that had just taken it apart had to put it together again.

Studio has played with short theater forms before, including its summertime 10-minute play festival. But “Too Much Light …” is a bit of a stretch for the community theater whose bread-and-butter offerings are things like Agatha Christie murder mysteries, comedies like “Greater Tuna” and 20th century masters such as Neil Simon. But Studio has been working a few edgier contemporary works into recent seasons, and longtime Studio director and producer Gary McCormick says this show will continue that trend.

“They’ve got two minutes to make you cry, make you laugh, or go ‘I don’t like that,’ or whatever,” McCormick said. “I think the people that come to a regular show here are going to be surprised. But after they get used to yelling out being part of it, they’ll enjoy it.”

‘Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind’

What: Studio Players’ production of the popular show by Greg Allen of 30 plays in 60 minutes

When: 8 p.m. May 12-14, 20-21, 27-28; 2:30 p.m. May 15, 22, and 29.

Where: Carriage House Theatre, 154 W. Bell Ct.

Tickets: $21 adults, $11 students

Call: 859-257-4929

Online: studioplayers.org