2009 - The Best 10-Minute Plays for 2 or More Actors
by Lawrence Harbison (Editor)

This year, Smith and Kraus has combined its two annual ten-minute play books into this one volume, divided into three sections: Plays for Two Actors, Plays for Three or Four Actors, and Plays for Five or Six Actors.

Now, you can get the best ten-minute plays produced during the 2008 2009 theatrical season all in one book!

In this volume you will find fifty-one ten-minute plays.

All have been produced successfully.

Some have even won awards.

These plays are written in a wide variety of styles.

Some are realistic, some are not.

Some are comic (laughs); some are dramatic (no laughs).

I think this form lends itself well to experimentation in style and subject matter.

A playwright can have fun with a device that couldn t be sustained as well in a longer form.

Many of these plays employ such devices

There are a few plays in this book by playwrights who are pretty well established (Don Nigro, Jacquelyn Reingold, and Eduardo Machado are three examples); but most are by terrific new writers you never heard of, playwrights destined without a doubt to become far better known when their full-length work gets produced by major theaters.

And you read their work first here!