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 / JoseĢ 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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.