Take ten II : more ten-minute plays / edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lane, Eric.

Shengold, Nina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

One-act plays, American.

Physical Description:

xii, 417 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Take ten two

Take ten 2

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage, 2003.

Summary:

A ten-minute play is a blaze of theatrical energy. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking collection Taken Ten, editors Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have put together a veritable bonfire of talent. Take Ten II: More Ten-Minute Plays provides a fast-track tour of the current theatrical landscape, from the slapstick ingenuity of David Ives's Arabian Nights to the searing tension of Diana Son's 9/11 drama, The Moon Please, to Susan Miller's luminous fable, The Grand Design. This remarkably diverse anthology includes thirty-five short plays by such major American playwrights as Christopher Durang, Warren Leight, Romulus Linney, and Donald Margulies, alongside a host of exciting new voices.

Actors, directors, producers, and teachers will find Take Ten II an invaluable source of meaty roles for people of every age, ethnicity, and gender; lovers of theatre will find it a richly satisfying read. These deceptively short plays throb with life in all its variety: harrowing, hilarious, and breathtakingly vital.

Contents:

Antigone's red / Chiori Miyagawa

Arabian nights / David Ives

Classyass / Caleen Sinnette Jennings

The Cure / Romulus Linney

Daniel on a Thursday / Garth Wingfield

Deer play / Mary Louise Wilson

El depresso espresso / Laura Shaine Cunningham

El santo Americano / Edward Bok Lee

Emotional baggage / Nina Shengold

Faith / Eric Lane

Fight dreams / Alison Weiss

The find / Susan Sandler

The grand design / Susan Miller

It's not you / Craig Pospisil

Kitty the waitress / Christopher Durang

Left to right / Steven Dietz

The levee / Taylor Mac Bowyer

Marred bliss / Mark O'Donnell

Men's intuition / Itamar Moses

The moon please / Diana Son

My red hand, my black hand / Dael Orlandersmith

Night visits / Simon Fill

Nine ten / Warren Leight

Playwriting 101: the rooftop lesson / Rich Orloff

Rosie in the shadow of the melrose / Craig Fols

A fustle of wings / Linda Eisenstein

Sinnery of a Sunday / Honour Kane

The sniper / Anthony David, Elaine Romero

Space / Donald Margulies

Stuck / Claire Reeve

Table 5 at Empire Szechwan / Alexander Woo

Twenty dollar drinks / Joe Pintauro

21 / Sigrid Heath

Virginia Street / Toni Press-Coffman

A whole house full of babies / Sean O'Connor.

Notes:

"A Vintage original" -- Cover.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1400032172

OCLC:

52257761