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

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
Plays for Five or Six Actors

Now you can get the best 10 minute plays produced during the 2008-2009 theatrical season all in one book!

In this volume you will find 51 ten-minute plays all of which have been produced successfully

A few are by playwrights who are well established - Don Nigro, Jacquelyn Reingold and Eduardo Machado, for example

But most are by terrific new writers you never heard of, many of whom will no doubt become far better known when their full-length work gets produced by the major theaters

And you can read their work first!

The Plays are ...

Plays for Two Actors - Plays for One Man and One Woman

All Good Cretins Go to Heaven ~ Kathleen Warnock
The Can Can ~ Kelly Younger
DA JA 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 either Men and or Women

A Figment ~ Ron Weaver
Tech Support ~ Henry Meyerson
What s the Meta? ~ Andrew Biss

Plays for Three or Four Actors - Plays 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
First Time for Everything ~ John Shanahan

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 Vet
Good Girl ~ Julia Brownell
Open House ~ Michael J. Grady
The Real Story ~ Neil Olson

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