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Ten-Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville Volume 2
Ten-Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville Volume 2
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Author: Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon Publisher: Samuel French (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 290 Pub. Date: 1992 ISBN-10: 0573693072 ISBN-13: 9780573693076
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About
the Plays:
This is volume 2 of the best-selling Ten-Minute Plays anthology
series from the prominent Actors Theatre of Louisville (ATL), which has championed the short
play with its National Ten Minute Play Contest over the years; winning
plays have often been included in ATL's annual Festival of New American Plays, an influential showplace for playwrights. More Ten-Minute Plays
contains contemporary plays by some of the world's most important
writers. All are perfect for classes and showcases where actors and
directors show their stuff without expending the time or money to
mount a full-length play.
More Ten-Minute Plays contains:
• After You
by Steven Dietz. A couple reunites after a year of separation
so Ben could not be indebted to Amy any longer. They broach their
lingering feelings and the process they had to go through in order to
move on. (Cast: 1 female, 1 male)
• American Welcome by Brian
Friel. A satiric monologue about a business meeting between a
loquacious American director named Bert and a playwright. Friel
simply lists the playwright as "foreigner," but Bert calls
him everything from John Smith to Tony Brown in a running gag about
the know-nothings of North America. (Cast: 1 male)
• Arizona
Anniversaries by John Bishop. Loneliness and death sure do
have a knack for bringing people together. Thirty-something David
tells the story of the birthday he spent in Arizona with his mother
and a woman he met at the mall, of all places. (Cast: 2 female, 1 male)
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Bed and Breakfast by Richard Dresser. Sarah is on her
honey-moon with her grouchy, lug of a husband, Chuck, when she meets
Alice, a woman who's been visiting for quite some time since her
husband, Claude, suffers from memory loss. When the two strike up a
conversation, Alice gives Sarah a pill from Claude's medication that
will change Chuck entirely. (Cast: 3 female, 2 male)
• Confession
by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, founders and
directors of The Independent Eye, a professional ensemble that has
toured the USA since 1974, presenting over 3,500 performances in
every sort of circumstance, from Off-Broadway to high school gyms and
prisons. (Cast: 1 female, 2 male)
• Eukiah by Lanford
Wilson. Butch lures the toddler-like, 16 year-old Eukiah from his
hiding spot after he overhears Butch and the other ranchers discuss
burning down the horse barns for insurance money. (Cast: 2 male)
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Eye to Eye by Chris Graybill. A man and woman finish a
dinner and argue over who will have the honor of paying the check.
Will this first date be their last? (Cast: 1 female, 2 male)
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Goblins Plot to Murder God by Mark O'Donnell. A dark
comedy about, well, a Goblin's plot to murder God. Think Shakespeare meets Dr. Seuss, the beloved children's book author. (Cast: 2-6 female or male)
• Going Nowhere Apace by
Glen Merzer. A satire on health clubs. Jud is a morbid flirt. While out exercising one
day he makes attempts to hit on three different women, all of whom he
can't help but repel with his morose curiosity. (Cast: 3 female, 1 male)
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The Golden Accord by Wole Soyinka. A trio of three very
different identities for characters provide an African American
perspective about the stress associated with domestic life. (Cast: 1 female,
2 male)
• The Interrogation by Murphy Guyer. Two
exes meet at a New York bar and question one another about their new
and past lovers. By the end of the play the two find that new lovers
are not the only thing they have in common and leave the bar
together. (Cast: 1 female, 1 male)
• Last Day of Camp by
Jeffrey Sweet. Three camp counselors relax after the end of
the summer. However, when one brings forth an unexpected gift, their
conversation reveals repressed feelings at the expense of all. (Cast: 1 female, 2 male)
• Lynette at 3:00 by Jane Anderson.
When Lynette can't fall asleep at 3 a.m. after hearing a gun shot in
the apartment building, she wakes her boyfriend Bobby who ignores the
situation. Still unable to sleep, Lynette turns on the T.V. only to be visited by the ghost of Estaban, the young Puerto Rican man who was shot just a floor
below, as he ascends to heaven... stopping long enough to share some "heaven" along the way. (Cast: 1 female, 2 male)
• The Man Who Couldn't Dance
by Jason Katims. After seeing Gail's newborn, Eric, her ex,
comes clean that he can not dance and dancing was just another thing
he could never provide her. A romantic comedy about missed
opportunities, second chances, and a newborn baby. (Cast: 1 female, 1
male)
• Mental Reservations by Roger Cornish. An
examination of how little everyday lies affect interactions between
two people in a snapshot of their relationship. (Cast: 1 female, 1 man).
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Mixed Emotions by Rob Krakower. One night of betrayal... a drama about relations
among longtime friends who question their views of life, love and loyalty. (Cast: 3 female, 3 male)
• Out the Window by
Neal Bell. Pandora's box is opened when a young man awakens to
discover that he is sitting in his wheelchair on top of a kitchen
table in an unfamiliar room. A woman enters, and they find themselves
discussing the night before. How did he get there? What happened last
night? Will she tell him the truth? (Cast: 1 female, 1 male)
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Pillow-Talk by John Pielmeier. Mark Bloomer shows up to
his first marriage counseling appointment with wife Jaydeen only to
find that the counselors, Tiffany Heaven and Roger Creosote, have
more issues than he does! (Cast: 2 female, 2 male)
• The
Problem-Solver by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Valerie
Smith. A weekend getaway runs awry thanks to incomplete lawn
furniture set and a some reheated mayonnaise. Can five grown adults
survive the chaos and dysfunction surmounting at their beach house?
(Cast: 2 female, 3 male)
• Procedure by Joyce Carol Oates.
Two nurses' aides prep a body for the morgue in this dark comedy. (Cast: 2 female)
• Pyramid Effect by Marcia Dixcy. Six
college students attempt to beat the Guinness Record for human
pyramids. That seems easy enough but some sneezes and hiccups could
bring their whole attempt crashing down. (Cast: 3 female, 3 male)
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Scruples by Jon Jory. Set in the waiting room of a huge
casting office where three young women, Lois, Marti, and Jane
anxiously await their final callback for a commercial advertising
sexy pantyhose. A tense argument ensues between the women until the
extravagant executive, Mrs. Dobbs, strides in and prepares the
actresses for their audition. (Cast: 4 female, 1 male)
• Sunday Go
to Meetin' by Shirley Lauro. A turn of the century play
about prejudice, immigration and survival in America. Set on a
country road in Iowa on a Sunday morning, the play centres on three
adolescent girls. Two are on their way to church when they come into
conflict with a newly arrived Jewish girl, selling apples on Sunday
by the roadside. (Cast: 4 female).
• The Visit by Lyudmila
Petrushevskaya, translated. by Steve Jones (Cast: 1 female, 1 male)
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Visiting Dad by Judith Fein. If meeting the parents
wasn't awkward enough... A young man is introduced to the father of
his fiancé. The only problem is that her father is dead. Will they
get her father's blessing … or do the dead know more than we think?
(Cast: 1 female, 2 male)
• What She Found There by John
Glore. When Alice went through the looking-glass, her
mirror-image, Celia, entered our world. Now Celia's shacked up with a
truck-driver named Lou, and after making love they talk of many
things, "of ships – and shoes – and sealing wax" –
and new beginnings. (Cast: 1 female, 1 male)
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Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
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Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Amy Wegener
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Actors Theatre of Louisville
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Edited by Tanya Palmer, Adrien-Alice Hansel and Steve Moulds
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Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky
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Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Liz Engelman
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