You’ve got to know you’re tempting fate when you decide to call the show you’re staging as part of a festival of more than a hundred, Other Plans. The name sure ain’t sexy, but at least it’s descriptive: This anthology of one-act plays, written by Stephanie Alice Scarpinato and directed by Ty Hallmark, isn’t a total loss, but it’s hardly essential.

Of the four pieces here, three could use another rewrite while the other, And the Meek Shall Inherit, ought to be shelved entirely. Set in a hospital room, Meek concerns two sisters’ squabble over the ownership of a rosary. Bad news: It’s first in the lineup. Good news: It’s the shortest. Note to the stage manager: While we’re all for suspension of disbelief, a show that uses a rosary as its MacGuffin probably ought to have, you know, a rosary as a prop instead of just a set of beads on a string. When a “rosary” doesn’t have a cross on the end ot it, you notice. We’re just sayin.’

Next up is Hungry No More, a study of a none-too-bright young woman who settles in at a diner booth to get to work at her ethically dubious new job as a ghostwriter. It’s too long by a third and the story goes nowhere after it offers up, quite early, its one meager surprise. But Melissa Schick (as the writer) and Sheri Ratick Stroud (as a waitress driven to distraction by the girl’s yapping), manage to imbue it with some life.