2009 - The Best 10-Minute Plays for 2 or More Actors

Synopsis

This year, Smith and Kraus has combined its two annual 10-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 51 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)

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

Plays for Two ActorsPlays for One Man and One Woman All Good Cretins Go to Heaven, Kathleen Warnock The Can Can, Kelly Younger Dèjá Vu All Over Again, Robin Rice Lichtig Feeding Time at the Human House, David Wiener Life Coming Up, Sharyn Rothstein Novices, Monica Raymond The Pain in the Poetry, Glen Alterman Quarks, William Borden Road Kill, Edward Crosby Wells A Short History of Weather, Jonathan Yukich Super versus Bacara Resort and Spa, Stephanie Hutchinson The Transfiguration of Linda, S. W. Senek Valentine s Play, Jenny Lyn Bader A Very Very Short Play, Jacquelyn Reingold Whistling in the Dark, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro Plays for Two Men Crossing the Border, Eduardo Machado Crows over Wheatfield (or The Nuance of the Leap), Gregory Hischak Fragment of a Paper Airplane, Carlos Murillo Marilyn Gets Ice Cream, Don Nigro Plays for Two Women Counting Rita, Patrick Gabridge Critical Care, Bara Swain The Grand Scheme, Jack Neary Plays for Any Combination of Men and Women A Figment, Ron Weaver Tech Support, Henry Meyerson What s the Meta?, Andrew Biss Plays for Three or Four ActorsPlays for One Man and Two Women The Chocolate Affair, Stephanie Allison Walker Life Is Just a Bowl of Cellos, Ann L. Gibbs More Precious Than Diamonds, Stephanie Hutchinson Stuffed Grape Leaves, Damon Chua Plays for Two Men and One Woman After Godot, George Freek Daddy Took My Debt Away, Bekah Brunstetter Enter the Naked Woman, Brendon Etter Poor Shem, Gregory Hischak Transpiration, Vincent Delaney Reverse Evolution, Brian Polak Plays for Two Men and Two Women Beautiful Noises, Scott C. Sickles Cate Blanchett Wants to Be My Friend on Facebook, Alex Broun Letters from Quebec to Providence in the Rain, Don Nigro Snow, Adam Szymkowicz Stick and Move, Greg Lam Theft, Jerrod Bogard Yin Yang, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro Play for Three Men and One Woman A Gravedigger s Tale, Mark Borkowski Play for Four Women Parkersburg, Laura Jacqmin Plays for Five or Six Actors(Various Combinations) The Blues Street Jazz Club Rehearses, William Borden Cabman, William Orem An Epic Story of Love and Sex in Ten Minutes: Chapter One, Richard VetGood Girl, Julia BrownellOpen House, Michael J. GradyThe Real Story, Neil Olson

Themes

• Drama
• Ten-minute plays