Stage It 10 Minute Plays

A collection of 12 short plays selected from the international playwriting competition "Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival. Plays run the gamut of comedies to dramas, existential to realistic, romantic encounters to refugee sagas, and even a few plays perfect for seniors. These are plays meant to be staged and enjoyed by audiences everywhere. And even includes a "bonus" solo play.

Stage It! 2: Thirty 10-Minute Plays is a collection of the best plays selected from the Centers for the Arts of Bonita Springs' second annual international playwriting competition. Playwrights, directors, producers, actors and literary professionals from the United States and Canada adjudicated more than 200 entries from around the country, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Great Britain. Theatres, festivals, and campuses will find selections here appropriate for all types of audiences. From the ridiculous to the sublime, from the hilarious to the heartfelt, from the absurd to the romantic comedy, from verse plays to plays with music, the Center is proud to promote these works and their authors and encourage you, the reader, to STAGE IT!

A collection of ten-minute plays from Creative Mechanics Theatre Company and E Merging Writers' 2005 competition, Stage This! is an exciting and diverse group of new plays ripe for reading and demanding to be staged.

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In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights – such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I. Haas, and Mark Harvey Levine, and by others less well known but equally terrific such as Sharai Bohannon, Suzanne Bailie, and Shirley King. The characters and situations portrayed are perfect for the kid actor. Some of the plays explore relatable tales of friendship and family, while others allow the actors to take on the personas of nonhuman characters, such as fish and chess pieces! 10-Minute Plays for Kids is ideal for theater students, youth groups, and acting classes.

A ten-minute play is a streak of theatrical lightning. It doesn't last long, but its power can stand your hair on end. This splendid anthology contains enough wattage to light up a small city. For in its pages, thirty-two of our finest playwrights hone their skills on a form that has been called the haiku of the American stage. The plays that Nina Shengold and Eric Lane have collected in this volume range from monologues to an eight-character farce. Eminently producible, ideally suited for the classroom and audition, Take Ten is a marvelous resource for teachers and students of drama, as well as a stimulating read for lovers of the theatre. Contributors include: John Augustine, Cathy Celesia, Laura Cunningham, Joe Pintauro, Mary Sue Price, Megan Terry, Jose Rivera, Romulus Linney, David Mamet, Jane Martin, David Ives, and many others.