The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2012

by Lawrence Harbison (editor)

In this book you will find fifty terrific new ten-minute plays, all successfully produced during the 2011-2012 theatrical season. They are written in a variety of styles, some realistic, some are not, some comic, some are dramatic. The ten-minute play form lends itself well to experimentation in style. Also included, for the first time, a comprehensive list of theaters which do ten-minute plays.

Plays for Two Actors
Bedtime Story (Christopher Lockheardt)
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (Bara Swain)
A Couple of Metal Gods Sitting Around Talking (Trace Crawford)
Dos Corazones (Richard Helleson)
Extracurricular (Frank Tangredi)
The Four Sense of Love (Arthur Jolly)
Green Dating (Chantal Bilodaqu)
Hate the Loser Inside (Jon Kern)
Iceberg to Nowhere (Samantha Macher)
I Had Fun But Drank Too Much (Craig McNulty)
Italy (Steven Schutzman)
Jinxed (K. Alexa Mavromatis)
Just Us (Jon Spano)
The Kids Menu (Richard Vetere)
Lines (Tony Glazer)
Looking (Charles Evered)
Minimalistic Men (Spencer Davis)
Okoboji (Suzanne Bradbeer)
People Don't Change (They Just Change Their Hair) (Bekah Brunstetter)
The Rollercoaster of Love (Joe Musso)
Second Tier (Glenn Alterman)
Skull (Less Three and Twenty)(Jason Gray Platt)
Stalk Me Baby (C.S. Hanson)

Plays for Three or More Actors
Amuse-Bouche (Michael Clark)
Angels (Lisa Ebersole)
Body Farm (Laurel Haines)
Camera Four (Cheri Magid)
Carol (Ron Riekki)
The Closet (Aoise Stratford)
Clown Therapy (Nina Mansfield)
Credit Check (Eddie Zipperer)
Duo (Tom Moran)
Eleanor's Passing (John Patrick Bray)
A Lesson (David Johnston)
Men and Parts (John Morogiello)
The Metaphor (Matthew Freeman)
Midsummer (Don Nigro)
Migratory Birds of Iraq (Mark Rigney)
Misfortune (Mark Harvey Levine)
Mythajawba (Claudia Haas)
Night of the Living Relatives (Judy Klass)
Oppression and Pearls (Jenny Lyn Bader)
Pascal and Martin (Jan Buttram)
Polar Bear Swim (Marisa Smith)
Purgatory (Heidi Armbruster)
Serverfriends (Jason Chimonides)
Storms, Sheets and Show Tunes (Stacey Lane)
That Thing You Do with Your Tongue (R.D. Murphy)
There's No Here Here (Craig Pospisil)
A Walk in the Park (Aren Haun)

Genres: Plays

453 pages, Paperback

First published June 14, 2013

Reviews

[Jillian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fifty ten-minute plays with a great range in topic, theme, and tone. Some didn't work for me, and the text also had a number of typos, but on the whole I thought it was one of the more interesting and engaging collections of short scripts that I've read so far, with some excellent standouts.

My top ten:

Skull (Less Three and Twenty) by Jason Gray Platt
Minimalistic Men by Spenser Davis
Storms, Sheets, and Showtunes by Stacey Lane
A Walk in the Park by Aren Haun
Credit Check by Eddie Zipperer
Italy by Steven Schutzman
Bedtime Story by Christopher Lockheardt
Iceberg to Nowhere by Samantha Macher
Duo by Tom Moran
Misfortune by Mark Harvey

[Raymond · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great diversity of style, content, subject here.

[behsforensics]

Cutting is for Hate The Loser Inside by John Kern

Another cutting is for Minimalistic Men
By Spencer Davis