Ten 10 Minute Plays

This collection of 10-minute plays will delight readers and audiences alike. From the social drama of Jeanette D. Farr's "Gray Matter" to the Pinteresque tension of Walter Wykes' "The Salmon Tribunal" to the zany swashbuckling fun of Jeff Goode's "Jolly Jack Junior," each of these short plays expresses the unique vision of an emerging contemporary dramatist. Together, they make an exciting and diverse evening of theatre.

Twelve short plays, each with two scenes and four monologues.

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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.

"Short plays, scenes, and monologues for young actors, young playwrights, and teachers."

The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theater enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our time. Selections include: Beta Testing by Jenny Lyn Bader The Fourteenth Annual Foot Puppet Festival by Holly Hepp-Galvan Glasstown by Don Nigro Incident on the Golden Gate Bridge by David MacGregor Oxycontin Follies by Steve Gold Two Artists Trying to Pay Their Bill by Lucy Wang The Scottish Loo by J. Thalia Cunningham

In this volume you will find fifty terrific new ten-minute plays all successfully produced during the 2016-2017 theatrical season. They are written in a variety of styles. Some are realistic plays, some are not, some comic, some are dramatic. Included is a comprehensive list of theatres which do ten-minute plays. Plays for two actors include: Alexander and the Yellow Rotary Phone (Ablesser), Another Day (Arsenault), Asking for it (MacCallum),Blue Tent (DiIorio), Consipiracy of Love (Kaplan), Ditmas (Alterman), Dr. Darling (Hanson), The Faint Taste of Cat Food and Sour Milk (Ehrlich), Front from Juneau (Howes), Gothic (Campbell), Husbandry (Nigro), The Last Night (Kaplan), Mickey Cares (McCullough), No Love, Please (Smith), Once in a Blue Moon (Cotton), The Pain Inside (Jerome), Palooka (Barnett), Room 313 (Crim), Rules of Comedy (Cotter), Six Billion Architects (Andrew), Sold! (Hoke), TA (Patterson), A Tale of Two in One (Bachleda), The Tango (Heilveil), You Again (Buckman). Plays for three or more actors include: Baby Gay (Mattingly), Bride of Godzilla (Racelis), Brine Shrimp Gangsters ( Stubbles), Carla (Bobek), Catatonic (Roberts), Coffee Break (Solmon), Cram School, Snow Days (Hardy), The Cut of Memory (Strauss), Don't Bleed on Me (Rassler), Evolution (Floyd), First Day In Trade (O'Grady), I Don't Know (McLindon), I Just Love that Keith Urban (Frost), I'm Only Sleeping(Polak), Just Like Them (Widney), Just Say it Three Times (Moughon), Lament (Plaza), The Mime Crime (Yukich), Non-Refundable (Ehrlich), Our Ten (Levine), Pop Star (MacGregor), Speed Mating (Guaspari), Tight Curls Today (Barclay), Trudy, Carolyn, Martha, and Regina Travel to Outer Space and have a Pretty Terrible Time There (Kennedy), Your Life Choices (Macdonald)