About the Book:

In The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2018, you will find fifty terrific ten-minute plays from the 2017-2018 theatrical season from veteran editor Lawrence Harbison, a man who has spent his career championing new and established playwrights by bringing their work into print. They are written in a variety of styles, some are realistic plays; some are not. Some are comic, some dramatic. The ten-minute play form lends itself well to experimentation in style. A playwright can have fun with a device which could not be sustained as well in a longer play. Several of these plays employ such a device.

Plays for 2 Actors

After You by Lee Blessing; The Chip by Michael Higgins; 2 Comfort Zones by Mark Rigney; Co-Workers by C.J. Ehrlich; The 5564 to Toronto by Karen JP Howes; Ful Nabit by J. Thalia Cunningham; Gorilla Gorilla by Mora V. Harris; Holy Toledo! by Susan Jackson; I Got You Babe by Anthony L. Mariani; The Incompleteness Theorem by Arlene Hutton; Italian Now by Charlene A. Donaghy; The Jane Austen Expressway by Erik Christian Hanson; Just One Of Those Things by Alan Brody; Labrats by Melinda Lopez; A Limbo Large And Broad by Holly Hepp-Galván; Melto Man and Lady Mantis by Eric Pfeffinger; Memory Card by Connie Schindewolf; Point Of Intersection by James Hindman; Rusalka by Don Nigro; Spark by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich; Time and Tony Oliva by Steven Haworth; Tim Kaine Sits In Front Of A Mirror And Studies His Face by Jordan Barsky; The Trapped Language Of Love by Ronan Colfer; Tweak Me Now Or Never by C.S. Hanson; Virtuous Reality by Hortense Gerardo.

Plays for 3 Actors or More

Art Strike by Chip Bolcik; Breakout by Tom Moran; Cubs Win! by Marisa Smith; English Only by Bryan Stubbles; Ethnically Ambiguous by Donna Latham; Fightbook by James McLindon; Flower Child In Blue by Richard Vetere; For Mr. Cuddles by Erin Moughon; Gold Standard by Lisa Bruna; Home Invasion by Kirsta Knight; Just Desserts by David MacGregor; Lorax by Katherine Lee Perrone; Men On The Moon by David Folwell; New York City Girls Will Kill You by Graham Techler; No Time for Baby by Susan Eve Haar; One Another by Cindy Turner & Jon Tuttle; Protocol by Brenda Foley; Silo #3 by Kate McCamy; Some People Say by Mark Saunders; That Night "Butcher" Pete Wilcox Got Knocked Out By Jesse "The Cannon" Tesori by Jonathan Cook; The Night Of All Nights by Elayne Heilveil; This Quintessence Of Dust by Cory Hinkle; Three Anne Franks by Maya Macdonald; A Visit to the Rust Belt by Lenny Lyn Bader; Zombies R Us by Rhea MacCallum.

About the Editor:

Lawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisitions for Samuel French for over thirty years, where 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, and Ken Ludwig, among many others. He has served as literary manager or literary consultant for several New York theatres, and has also served many times over the years as a judge and commentator for various national play contests and lectures regularly at colleges and universities.