If you’re a drama teacher, why not do a bill of plays that are in this book, instead of yet another production of Arsenic and Old Lace? All of the plays you’ll find here are easy to produce, and none require kids to spray paint their hair gray and pretend to be a geezer. If you’re a teen who wants to take the initiative and do a play with your friends, look no further. Ten-minute plays are being done as bills all over the world, so why not in high schools, too? This volume amounts to one-stop shopping. I also expressed my opinion that their kids would have a far better experience doing plays to which they could relate. And they’ll have the same audience, because everyone’s going to come to see their kid or their friend in the play. It’s not as if the titles of plays are on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Some directors were resistant, believing that there was some rule that they could only do a famous play from Broadway, largely because it had to be a play that everyone had heard of-to which I replied that they hadn’t heard of anything. When I was senior editor for Samuel French, I received many phone calls each year from high school drama directors asking for help in play selection, and I often steered them toward terrific plays we published that were specifically for teens. It has always been my belief that schools are far too reliant on the usual suspects-famous plays from Broadway with few or no teen characters. All of them have subject matter appropriate for production in schools and that will, I believe, interest teen performers. This doesn’t mean, though, that high school kids can’t do the middle-school plays, and vice versa. The Contents page identifies which are which. Some are for middle-school-aged teens others are for high school kids. This anthology contains twenty-five terrific new plays, with almost exclusively teenaged characters. THE STAR-SPANGLED WOOLY BULLY by Steve Koppman or DOING THE LIGHTNING BOLT! by Alex Broun THE PRESENT MIDNIGHT by Constance Congdon ZOMBIE RADIO by Don Nigro PLAYS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLS SNO-GLOBE & THE BIG ZIP by Sharyn Rothstein SHE CAME IN THROUGH THE BATHROOM WINDOW by Tira Palmquist RED SUGARY SWEET DREAMS by Daniel John Kelley Title: Twenty-five ten-minute plays for teens. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataĢ5 10-minute plays for teens / Lawrence Harbison. Published in 2014 by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, without written permission, except by a newspaper or magazine reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review. I'm looking to build up my 10 minute play collections for scenework.īryan Ringsted (he/him) Theater Teacher/Director Notre Dame High School 596 South Second Street San Jose, CA 95112 A distinctive Catholic, college-preparatory education for young women in the heart of downtown since 1851All rights reserved. Subject: Best 10 minute play collections for high school students they are not written for HS, so you'll read a bunch that won't work, but there's some gems in there. If in class work, I have found a ton from the many, many collections from the Humana Festival. Hi Bryan - not sure if you are looking for collections by one author that you can do all together, or just a place to find as many as you can for in-class work. Subject: RE: Best 10 minute play collections for high school students
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