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10 Minute Play Scripts
Ten Minute Play Scripts have become increasingly popular with directors to put together an evening of short plays.
Find ten-minute comedies, ten-minute dramas, 10-minute dramedies, 10-minute scripts for interpretation, scripts for flash drama. Popular scripts feature 10 minute Monologues from the Bible New Testament and Old Testament, Short skits for Seniors. Instant printable PDF on purchase.
Some benefits of an evening of Ten Minute Plays are:
• More actors can participate taking major roles, without one or two leading actors having the responsibility of carrying an entire show.
• Rehearsals can be arranged for shorter periods to suit smaller groups.
• Minimal staging/set – less design and stage management work involved.
• Increased ticket sales and revenue – theatres can schedule weekday performances.
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Moments of Madness
$13.70 – $110.00Price range: $13.70 through $110.00A short play collection by Jack J. Berry consists mainly of short comedies. Berry loves to stand the world on its head. A comedy about attempted assassin John J. Hinkley? Travel from Old Testament to WWII in a matter of minutes? These short plays can be produced as an evening of theater or individually as introductions to meetings and events. -
Monsters
$11.97 – $90.00Price range: $11.97 through $90.00Seven contemporary monologues that take the audience into a roller coaster ride of the psyche from predators to bizarre takes on the afterlife. Featuring an electric chair experiment, missing body parts and a weird scientific experiment to name a few. Great solo performance ideas. -
Numbers Have Feelings
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00What if numbers could feel? Does a number feel diminished when it is subtracted? Originally written for a math-tutoring business open house, this short script is perfect as a classroom or meeting diversion. -
Off Our Rockers
$13.70 – $110.00Price range: $13.70 through $110.00This collection of madcap 10-minute comedies appeals to everyone from teens to seniors. Casts include elves, grumpy homophobic neighbors, and a troupe of historical characters come to life. -
Oil Pandango
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00“Oil Pandango” is the fifth installment in the Playroom series, and it’s set in the garage. A lot of teens take over the garage with dreams of starting a band, but Marla isn’t a lot of teens. -
Original Relocation
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00Adam and Eve start the first world war as they negotiate an uneasy peace when they are banished from Paradise. A funny take on the likely conversation after being ejected from Paradise. And of course, there are rules about Apples. -
Papito
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00Papito is a ten-page short play addressing parentification, specifically how a young man who grows up without a father assumes the partnership role with his mother and has difficulty establishing a healthy partnership with a significant other. The narrator, Zoe, is that significant other who is frustrated with her domineering mother-in-law and her husband who refuses to establish needed boundaries for his mom. -
Patres Familias
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00“Patres Familias” is the sixth installment in the Playroom series, and this one finds Rich just off of his back porch, stealing some time (and some beer) with his neighbor. -
Playroom
$13.70 – $110.00Price range: $13.70 through $110.00Playroom is a series of comedies created by the author as a way to explore the short play and "one act" format, one setting (and one evening) at a time. An otherwise ordinary family, the characters of Hinton’s Playroom are thrust into extraordinary, supernatural, and preternatural circumstances. -
Rich’s Well-Made
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00“Rich’s Well-Made”, set in the bathroom, is the second installment in the Playroom series. At its heart, Playroom is a series about exploring the hidden value of everyday spaces, as well as connecting (and reconnecting) with loved ones. Playroom is a theatrical experiment that examines the relationships of the nuclear family against the backdrops of a seemingly normal home. -
Short Plays for Long Lives
$16.97 – $110.00Price range: $16.97 through $110.00A collection of six 10-minute plays for seniors and senior theater groups. With mostly senior cast members, these short comedies plays about old people play well for senior groups and senior actors. They may be produced as Readers Theater, or on stage individually or as a group. These are good plays for amdram groups and community theater. -
A collection of six 10-minute satires - plays written by the renowned Virginia Playwrights Forum, lampoons the American political and social landscape. From taxes and lotteries, to classroom education and TV talk show hosts, the foibles of present-day America are revealed. -
Talk the Night
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00Together, Drake and his grandfather, the dynamic vocal duo, broadcast call-in segments about aliens, werewolves, and all things crypto-zoological, but this particular show is about “time”: lost time, time outs, moments that feel like years, -
Ten After Ten: Ten 10-Minute Comedies
$13.70 – $110.00Price range: $13.70 through $110.00In Ten After Ten, Jack J. Berry uses unique settings to highlight current problems and issues. These short comedies can be performed as a single evening or used separately as part of a larger presentation to underscore a point. Excellent for classroom, church, or senior facility.
