2010 the Best 10-Minute Plays

Again this year, Smith and Kraus combined its two annual ten-minute play books into this one volume, divided into two sections: Plays for Two Actors and Plays for Three or More Actors. Now, you can get the best ten-minute plays produced during the 2009-2010 theatrical season all in one book! In this volume you will find a plethora of ten-minute plays, culled from hundreds received. All have been produced successfully. Some have even won awards. These plays are written in a wide variety...
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Again this year, Smith and Kraus combined its two annual ten-minute play books into this one volume, divided into two sections: Plays for Two Actors and Plays for Three or More Actors. Now, you can get the best ten-minute plays produced during the 2009-2010 theatrical season all in one book! In this volume you will find a plethora of ten-minute plays, culled from hundreds received. 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 fairly well-known, such as Don Nigro, Carson Kreitzer, Elaine Romero, Bridgette A. Wimberly, Richard Vetere and P. J. Gibson; 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 plays get produced by major theatres. And you read their work first here! Plays for Two Actors Plays for One Man and One Woman Goat by Don Nigro Gunning for Life by William Borden High Speed Disconnect by Chris Widney Jesse by P. J. Gibson Labor Day Weekend by Jon Spano Ladybug Gonna Getcha by Cara Lee Corthron A Modest Proposal by Steve Koppman Mrs. Jansen Isn''t Here Now by Steven Korbar Public Relations by Andrew Biss Rainbow Sprinkles by Stacey Lane The Rental by Mark Harvey Levine Revolutions by Elaine Romero Rightsized by Kate McCamy Self Phone by Brendon Etter Smile by Nina Mansfield Steve by Liz Bartucci Use Unknown by Ali Walton Wish You Were Here by Claudia Haas Plays for Two Women Hedge by Jerrod Bogard Parental Consent by S. D. Graubert The Pickle Lady by Sharyn Rothstein Rally by Bridgette A. Wimberly Saguaro by Philip Dawkins The Shore by Daniel Talbott Worse Things by Mona Mansour Plays for Two Men Canadian Tuxedo by Nicole Panolfo His Daddy by Cori Thomas Ron Swoboda''s Wish by Anna Ziegler Plays for Three or More Actors The Attractive Women on the Train (2M 2F) by P. Seth Bauer The Bedmaker''s Revenge (1M 2F) by Bekah Brunstetter Bollywood (2 M 2F) by R. D. Murphy Carwash; or In This Town, You Are What You Drive (2M 2F) by Stephanie Hutchinson The Cooking King (2M 1F) by Sharon E. Cooper Driving Green (2M 1F) by Martin Blank The End of a Perfect Game (4M) by Jay Rehak For Our Mothers and Fathers (3F) by Crystal Skillman The Godot Variations (3M or more) by Meron Langsner Hands of Horror (2M 1F) by Ann Marie Healy His Last Fight (2M 1F) by Jacqueline Goldfinger L. A. 8 AM (1M 1F, + 2 M or F) by Mark Harvey Levine Let''s Not Talk About Men (2M 6F) by Carla Cantrelle Meatball Hero (2M 1F) by Richard Vetere Odysseus Swims for It (1M 2F) by Joshua H. Cohen Off the Map (2M 1F) by Rich Orloff Parachute Silk (1M 2F) by Carson Kreitzer Post Wave Spectacular (4F) by Diana Grisanti Pussy (2M 1F) by Laura Jacqmin Small Portions (2M 1F) by Quinn D. Eli Spirit Sex (2M 1F) by Desi Moreno-Penson Table for Four (2M 2F) by Steven Korbar Whack-a-Mole (1M 2F plus 4 M or F) by Beth Lein ABOUT THE EDITOR For over thirty years Lawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisition for Samuel French, Inc., during which time his work on behalf of playwrights resulted in the first publication of such subsequent luminaries as Jane Martin, Don Nigro, Tina Howe, Theresa Rebeck, José Rivera, William Mastrosimone, Charles Fuller, and Ken Ludwig, among many others; and the acquisition of musicals such as Smoke of the Mountain, A...My Name Is Alice, Little Shop of Horrors and Three Guys Naked from the Waist Dow. He is a now a free-lance editor, primarily for Smith and Kraus, Inc., for whom he edits annual anthologies of best plays by new playwrights and women playwrights, best ten-minute plays and best monologues and scenes for men and for women. For many years he wrote a weekly column on his adventures in the theater for two Manhattan Newspapers, the Chelsea Clinton News and The Westsider. His new column, "On the Aisle with Larry", is a weekly feature at www.smithandkraus.com. He works with individual playwrights to help them develop their plays (see his website, www.playfixer.com).