2004: The Best Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors

Collected from theaters across America, these new ten-minute plays reveal the power and pleasures of this tightly knit form. These plays can be gathered into an evening of short works for production — an event that’s becoming more common in the American theater — or they’re ideal for the classroom. They offer the same challenges to student actors as longer works (creation of character, the arc of action, development of relationship, and interpretation of theme) and are superior to scene work because all the pertinent information is within the script being performed. These works by well-known and unknown playwrights come from the Guthrie Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, City Theater in Florida, McCarter Theater, and beyond. And since the works in these collections vary tremendously in terms of style and subject matter, there’s bound to be something for everyone here.