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  • 1.  10 Minute Plays

    Posted 11-03-2014 09:57
    Hello! I am currently a college student in a theatre education program, and I am in desperate need of a 10-Minute play or scene from a show for my Directing class.  I would prefer a dramatic piece with a smaller cast, if possible. Definitely no more than four characters. Suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!

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    Julianne Bigham
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  • 2.  RE: 10 Minute Plays

    Posted 11-03-2014 13:48
    Are you willing to do classical? If so, I have a good scene from Julius Caesar Act 4 Scene 2 that has only a handful of actors

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    Shira Schwartz
    Chandler Unified School District
    Chandler AZ
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  • 3.  RE: 10 Minute Plays

    Posted 11-04-2014 06:53
    We have had a 10 Minute Festival the last two years and LOVED it. Here are my suggestions for four characters or less:

                            2012/13
    ACT ONE

    Secret to Lasagna  (The Secret to Making the Perfect Aloo Parata) by Alex Broun

    ***** The DMV One by Nick Zagone

    After the Ball Drop by Rachel Lerner-Ley

    ****** 10,000 Cigarettes by Alex Broun

    Perfect Stillness by Jane Miller

    ACT TWO 

    Rupert & the 7 Russian Brides by Alex Broun

    While You Were Sleeping

    20 Dollars by Alex Broun

    **** Blind Date by Samara Siskind

    **** Because the World Needs Unicorns by Cerise De Gleder


    2013/14

    Controlling Interest

    Wayne S. Rawley

    Family 2.0

    Walter Wykes

    No. 22

    Adele Vuko

    **** Sure Thing

    David Ives

    A Charming Affair

    Robert Scott OPEN to more

    While The Auto Waits

    O. Henry

    Bar Wars

    Richard James

    The Kill

    Alex Broun

    Pushed

    Alex Broun

    **** 50 Guns

    Alex Broun


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    Phil Ridley
    Drama Director
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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  • 4.  RE: 10 Minute Plays

    Posted 11-04-2014 09:39
    Have you read Fog by Jim Gordon, published by Heuer? Four charcters, POWERFUL piece with a man and woman in nursing home, son and nurse. Maybe 12 minutes or so I would say. Worth a read, whether you do it or not.

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    Ed Fitzgerald
    teacher
    Virginia Beach City Public Schools
    Virginia Beach VA
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  • 5.  RE: 10 Minute Plays

    Posted 11-04-2014 10:13
    There's a great short play called LOYALTIES.  See the description below.  You can get it from Samuel French.  You don't realize they are in Germany until the end.  It can be very disturbing, if directed correctly.

    Loyalties (Guyer)

    Murphy Guyer

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    10 Minute Play, Drama

    2m, 2f

    ISBN: 9780573625589

    Two couples in Weimar Germany gather around a table in celebration of the new good economic and spiritual times they are enjoying. The conversation sours, however, when one of the party members exposes his thoughts on what patriotism and military honor really mean to him.


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    Terri Ferguson
    Performing Arts Faculty
    Ursuline Academy of Dallas
    Dallas TX
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  • 6.  RE: 10 Minute Plays

    Posted 11-04-2014 12:19
    Check out 

    TEN MINUTE PLAYS FROM ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE, 

    Has some great plays within your framework.

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    David Kramer
    Mt Sinai NY
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  • 7.  RE: 10 Minute Plays

    Posted 11-04-2014 13:16
    Two suggestions:  The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry.  Also there is a book of short plays produced by the Naked Angels Issues Project.  Full of short pieces from years of doing the Issues Project in New York.  Playscripts hols the rights but the book is available through Amazon.com.

    Break Legs

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    Robert DiMartino
    Theatre Teacher
    Cumberland High School
    West Warwick RI
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  • 8.  RE: 10 Minute Plays

    Posted 11-04-2014 13:19
    Thank you all for your suggestions!

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    Julianne Bigham
    Shreveport LA
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  • 9.  RE: 10 Minute Plays

    Posted 11-04-2014 17:38
    Sounds a lot like my college directing-class assignment.  I used the confrontation between Russell and Cantwell in the second act of Gore Vidal's The Best Man - the "I won't throw my mud if you don't throw your mud" scene between the two presidential candidates.  It's about ten minutes long, and it gives both characters a really strong conflict to play.  It's also a challenge in terms of blocking: since it simply presents two men talking in a hotel suite, you've really got to work to keep the scene from becoming visually static, but of course whatever movement you give them must be motivated.

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    Jeff Grove
    Theatre Teacher, Aesthetics Department Chair
    Stanton College Preparatory School
    Jacksonville FL


  • 10.  RE: 10 Minute Plays

    Posted 11-05-2014 06:55
    Try contacting Actors Theatre of Louisville and their Education Department. They publish the student winners of their annual New Voices Project. Excellent 10 minute plays written by students.

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    John Perry
    Drama Instructor
    Atherton High School
    Louisville KY
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