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Title:

30 ten-minute plays for 2 actors, from the National Ten-Minute Play Contest / edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon, Amy Wegener, and Karen C. Petruska.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Smith and Kraus,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

vii, 247 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Ten-minute plays, American.
American drama--20th century.
Ten-minute plays.

Other Authors:

Dixon, Michael Bigelow.
Wegener, Amy.
Petruska, Karen C.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Bigelow Dixon, Amy Wegener, Karen C. Petruska -- Plays for two women: Misreadings / Neena Beber -- Happy mug / Elizabeth Dewberry -- Kat and Eliza / Ann Marie Healy -- Nightswim / Julia Jordan -- Waterbabies / Adam LeFevre -- After / Carol K. Mack -- Beauty / Jane Martin -- Off the rack / Robert D. Kemnitz, Jennifer McMaster -- So tell me about this guy / Dolores Whiskeyman -- Plays for two men: Guys / Robb Badlam -- Executive dance / Joe DiPietro -- Forty-minute finish / Jerome Hairston -- Trying to find Chinatown / David Henry Hwang -- Woozey woo! / Robert Macadaeg -- Drive angry / Matt Pelfrey -- Game theory / Peter Sagal -- Plays for one woman and one man: Blue room / Courtney Baron -- Creep / James Christy -- After you / Steven Dietz -- Individuality of streetlamps / Anna K. Gorisch -- Divine fallacy / Tina Howe -- Carnality / Mark Loewenstern -- Precipice / William Mastrosimone -- Lift and bang / Julie Marie Myatt -- What I came for / Alice O'Neill -- Hiss / Jett Parsley -- Scheherazade / Emily Roderer -- Saturday night / Christopher Shinn -- Joan of Arkansas / Sheri Wilner -- Play for two actors, either gender: Tape / José Rivera.

Summary:

This volume features 30 ten-minute plays written for actors in their teens, twenties, and thirties. These plays have been culled from thousands submitted to Actors Theatre of Louisville's National Ten-Minute Play Contest. This collection illustrates the dramatic power of the ten-minute play format. It provides to teachers, directors, and actors a cornucopia of characters, themes and styles organized by gender and cast-size.

Series:

Contemporary playwrights series

ISBN:

9781575252773
1575252775

LCCN:

2001032198

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)