Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays

Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays
Author: Eric Lane
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1997-03-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0679772820

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.

The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2013

The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2013
Author: Lawrence Harbison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9781575258690

In this volume you'll find fifty terrific new 10-minute plays Plays for Two Actors: Absent Grace (Claudia Barnett) Animal/Animal (Libby Emmons) Anniversary Season (Jenny Lyn Bader) Aposiopesis (John McEneny) Black Coffee (Deanna Alisa Ableser) Customer Service (Philip Hall) Draw a Lion (Dan O'Neill) Fair Shake (Jeffrey Gold) Give and Take (Bara Swain) Green Sound (John Patrick Bray) In Memory of Calvinball (Erin Moughon) Intentional Deception (Greg Freier) Lack of Moisture (Debbie Lamedman) Magic 8 Ball (Kimberly Pau) The Memory Box (Chris Shaw Swanson) Minutiae (Barry Eitel) Missed Connections (Marj O'Neill Butler) The Ninth Circus of Hell (C.J. Ehrlich) Numbers (Gregg Kreutz) Perspective (James McLindon) Reinventing the Wheel (Megan Lohne) She's Bound to Know (Michael Weems) This Flight Tonight (Wendy MacLeod) Unintelligent Life (John McKinney) Your Kiss is on My List (Christopher Lockheardt Plays for Three or More Actors: All My Problems (Laurie Graff) Battle Tactics (Andy Haynes) Black and White (Donna Hoke) The Date (Scene) (Mike Salomon) Captain Rockets Versus the Intergalactic Brain-Eaters (Don Nigro) The Corporate Ladder (Lisa Soland) Erosion (Scott McCrea) He's Really a Good Guy (Rory Leahy) Hurt (Saviana Stanescu) Mendacity of The Hear of Elephants in the Room (Carlos Murillo) Museum Place @2 (William Fowkes) Organic Seed (Patrick Gabridge) Pass Go: A Monopoly Play (Brian James Polak) Pocket Universe (Duncan Pflaster) The Promise (Jeffrey Strausser) Rat-Tat-Tat (David Guaspari) The Slasher's Lament (Michael Puzzo) A Small Fishing Nation Wedged Between Estonia and Latvia (Andrew Black) Standing Room Only (Aren Haun) Switzerland (Mayank Keshaviah) True Enough (Sonya Sobieski) Twenty-Three Hundred (Mark Rigney) What are You Going to Be? (Steven Korbar) Where were You When I Was Coming? (C.S. Hanson) Zombie Love (Earl T. Roske)

Take Ten II

Take Ten II
Author: Eric Lane
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2009-02-18
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0307491595

A dazzlingly diverse anthology of thirty-five short plays spanning the theatrical spectrum. A ten-minute play is a blaze of theatrical energy. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking collection Take Ten, editors Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have put together a veritable bonfire of talent. Take Ten II: More 10-Minute Plays provides a fast-track tour of the current theatrical landscape, from the slapstick ingenuity of David Ives’ Arabian Nights to the searing tension of Diana Son’s 9/11 drama The Moon, Please, to Susan Miller’s luminous fable The Grand Design. This remarkably diverse anthology includes thirty-five short plays by such major American playwrights as Christopher Durang, Warren Leight, Romulus Linney and Donald Margulies, alongside a host of exciting new voices. Actors, directors, producers and teachers will find Take Ten II an invaluable source of meaty roles for people of every age, ethnicity and gender; lovers of theatre will find it a richly satisfying read. These deceptively short plays throb with life in all its variety: harrowing, hilarious, and breathtakingly vital. Playwrights included: Taylor Mac Bowyer Laura Shaine Cunningham Anthony David Steven Dietz Christopher Durang Linda Eisenstein Simon Fill Craig Fols Sigrid Heath David Ives Caleen Sinnette Jennings Honour Kane Eric Lane Edward Bok Lee Warren Leight Romulus Linney Donald Margulies Susan Miller Chiori Miyagawa Itamar Moses Sean O'Connor Mark O'Donnell Dael Orlandersmith Rich Orloff Joe Pintauro Craig Pospisil Toni Press-Coffman Claire Reeve Elaine Romero Susan Sandler Nina Shengold Diana Son Alison Weiss Mary Louise Wilson Garth Wingfield Alexander Woo From the Trade Paperback edition.

A More Perfect Ten

A More Perfect Ten
Author: Gary Garrison
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2011-12-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1585104574

A More Perfect Ten is a revision of Gary Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute play, and it is now the most authoritative book on this emerging play form. The 10-minute play has become a regular feature of theatre companies and festivals from coast to coast, and Garrison has distilled the advice of many of those people who had been instrumental in promoting the ten minute play for the last few years. Replete with advice and tips on creating the successful 10-minute play, and cautions for avoiding the pitfalls, this new edition also includes addresses for the biggest and most important 10-minute festival opportunities, new sample 10-minute plays and questions for thought and discussion, and sample layout templates for laying out the play for submission. The savvy playwright at any level of skill can use this little book to great advantage. Plus Gary Garrison is warm, funny, irreverent, and essential.

The Best 10-minute Plays for Three Or More Actors, 2005

The Best 10-minute Plays for Three Or More Actors, 2005
Author: D. L. Lepidus
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2007
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Collected from theaters across America, this new ten-minute collection of 23 plays reveals the power and pleasures of this tightly knit form. Plays for 3 Actors:Shot Americans (3W) by Kayla CaganLarry Gets the Call (2W, 1M) by Matt CasarinoShades (1W, 2M) by Mark Harvey LevineEvery Man (2W, 1M) by Michael NiedermanMolly Whuppie (2W, 1M) by Don NigroIt's Called Development (3W) by Anne PhelanAn Ongoing Examination of the True Meaning of Life (2W, 1M or 1W, 2M) by S. W. SenekPistachio Stories (2W, 1M) by Laura ShamasThe Searcher (1W, 2M) by Frederick StroppelMore (1W, 2M) by Jeff TabnickWeird Water (1W, 2M) by Robert Lewis VaughanDead Boy (2W, 1M) by Craig WrightPlays for 4 Actors:Vinny's Vision (4M) by Jim GordonBetting the Karmic House (1W, 3M or 2W, 2M) by Bill JohnsonInfant Morality (3W, 1M) by Craig PospisilHow to Speak Man (4M) by Sharyn RothsteinRemind Me Again (3W, 1M) by Sharyn RothsteinHell Hath Three Furies (3W, 1M) by Aoise StratfordA Moment of Your Undivided Attention (3W, 1M) by Alina TrowbridgePlays for 5 Actors:Tina at the Times or Below the Fold (2W, 3M) by Wendy MacLeodPlays for 6 or More ActorsToys in Babeland (1W, 8M) by Delilah GomezAt the time (5W, 3M) by Winter MillerSmall World (3W, 3M) by Tracey Scott WilsonD. L. LEPIDUS is a freelance critic and editor who has covered the New York theater scene for more than twenty-five years. Since 1993, his work has appeared in theater columns for Chelsea Clinton News and the Westsider.

The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020

The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020
Author: Lawrence Harbison
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1493053280

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

The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2015

The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2015
Author: Lawrence Harbison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781575258980

In this volume you will find fifty terrific new ten-minute plays all successfully produced during the 2014-2015 theatrical season. They are written in a variety of styles. Some realistic plays, some are not, some comic, some are dramatic. -- Amazon.com.

The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013

The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013
Author: William W. Demastes
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1480397210

(Applause Books). For over 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and more. In this volume, the plays capture the struggle between "hot tempers and cold decrees." Humans love to think of themselves as rational beings well in control of their lives and surroundings from sunup to sundown, sundown to sunrise. We learn to follow rules of proper behavior and more than happily issue out advice to our friends who just can't get a handle on themselves. Restraint and order, after all, are the cornerstones of human society and civilization. The problem is that human nature bucks and bridles at every attempt to socialize and civilize. Shakespeare got it right when he penned the observation, "The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree." In those few words he has managed to capture precisely why it is so difficult to be human; if it were okay simply to let our hot tempers prevail, life would be so much easier. But cold decrees are what prevent us from self-destruction, and so we endure the struggle.

Laugh Lines

Laugh Lines
Author: Eric Lane
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2008-12-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0307487326

This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all guaranteed to send readers and audiences into peals of laughter. From the surrealistic wit of Steve Martin's "The Zig-Zag Woman" to the biting political satire of Steven Dietz's "The Spot," from Christopher Durang's wonderfully loopy "Wanda's Visit" to Shel Silverstein's supremely twisted "The Best Daddy," there's something in here to make everyone laugh. There are plays for casts of all sizes, from monologues to large ensembles, with diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. Even the titles are funny: Mark O'Donnell's "There Shall Be No Bottom (a bad play for worse actors)," Elaine May's "The Way of All Fish," and Alan Ball's "Your Mother's Butt." A bonanza for theatergoers, performers, and comedy fans, Laugh Lines will bring down the house. From the Trade Paperback edition.