10 Minute Plays
CHLAMYDIA
IN THE CLOSET
Genre: Comedy
Cast Breakdown: 2m, 1f
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Synopsis: When her recently ex-boyfriend, Matthew, asks to come over, Clarissa assumes that he wants to reconcile. Unfortunately, she learns that the truth is far less palatable. Matt has decided to come out of the close but not before having contracted an STI that he may have passed onto Clarissa. Clarissa's evening goes from bad to worse when Matt's current boyfriend arrives, determined to prevent Matt from "backsliding."
BUSINESS AS USUAL
Genre: Dark Comedy
Cast Breakdown: 1m
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Synopsis: In the 1300s, the Black Death ravages Europe. But Father Edmund Godfrey refuses to let some pesky inconvenience like a plague interfere with his rigid instruction of rhetoric. Even if instruction must take place over "Zoom."
THE HEADACHE
OF A ROOSTER
Genre: Children's
Cast Breakdown: 6 flexible
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Synopsis: All the Rooster wants is to crow at the sun-- the only thing stopping him: his splitting headache. In order for the Old Woman to give him the medicine he needs, however, the Rooster must go from person to person, collecting hair from the Dog, bread from the Baker, and so on in an ever increasing list that makes his simple task become monumental.
POLLY/WALLY
THE DOLLY
Genre: Comedy
Cast Breakdown: 1f, 1 flexible
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Synopsis: This meta-theatrical piece features a girl, Eve, and her doll as they spend time playing together before heading off to church. In a story that addresses playwriting structure and with characters that recognize a writer has given them words to say, Eve and Polly/Wally search to understand their own agency and the seemingly meaninglessness of free will.
THE
CHOICEST BITE
Genre: Verse/Drama
Cast Breakdown: 1m, 1f
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Synopsis: In the Garden of Eden, Eve discovers her mind has opened after biting from the Forbidden Fruit. She grapples with the guilt of her choice-- a guilt that only intensifies when Adam joins her. "The Choicest Bite" explores the motives of the Original Couple and their Original Sin as well as the paradoxical notion of a paradise.
MADALYN'S MAGICAL MIRACLES
Genre: Comedy
Cast Breakdown: 1m, 2f
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Synopsis: After a one-night stand, Madalyn, a witch and owner of "Madalyn's Magical Miracles," has to contend with her mother, a leader in the local coven who sneers her nose at the pitiful trinkets Madalyn sells. With clueless Brad looking on, mother and daughter go toe-to-toe about magical respect and familial dignity.