2008: The Best Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors (Contemporary Playwright Series) - Softcover

Lawrence Harbison

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9781575257099: 2008: The Best Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors (Contemporary Playwright Series)

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ISBN 10: 1575257092 ISBN 13: 9781575257099

Publisher: Smith & Kraus, 2009

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The hottest collection of 10-minute plays by American playwrights for 2009, The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2008 for 2 Actors is part of the essential 2-book set for producers looking for high-quality plays and professors who need relevant and engaging material for their class work. Lawrence Harbison has assembled the most compelling comedies, dramas, fantasies, and mysteries of the year a chronicle of what this year's playwrights had to say about the world around them.
Plays for One Man and One Woman
Apricot Sunday by Ed Cardona, Jr.
The A-Word by Linda Faigao-Hall
Bride on the Rocks by David Wiener
Cell Mates by Molly Best Tinsley
The Charm of the British by Laura Cotton
Drury Lane by Don Nigro
Einstein + the Angels by Laura Harrington
Esla and Frinz Go Partying by Bruce Shearer
Flooding by Jami Brandli
Fuck Tori Amos by Caitlin Montanye Parrish
A Funeral Home in Brooklyn by David Johnston
Godfrey by Ian August
A Great-Looking Boat by Joan Ackermann
Happy No-Lidays by Keythe Farley
I Have It by Bekah Brunstetter
Paris Snatch by Brian Dykstra
The Passion of Merlin and Vivien in the Forest of Broceliande by
Don Nigro
Signs of Life by Frederick Stroppel
Skin & Bones by Julian Sheppard
Specter (or, Broken Down by Age & Sex) by Neena Beber
That Thing by John Shanahan
Tongue, Tied by M. Thomas Cooper
Plays for Two Men
Downstairs, Upstairs by Wendy MacLeod
Rats by Ron Fitzgerald
The Train Ride by Daniel Talbott
Two from the Line by Michael Louis Wells

Plays for Two Women
Farewell and Adieu by Jack Neary
Female Dogs by Barbara Lindsay
The Giftbox by Francine Volpe
Hollywood Hills by Stephanie Alison Walker

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The hottest collection of 10-minute plays by American playwrights for 2009, The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2008 for 3 or More Actors is part of the essential 2-book set for producers looking for high-quality plays and professors who need relevant and engaging material for their class work. Lawrence Harbison has assembled the most compelling comedies, dramas, fantasies, and mysteries of the year — a chronicle of what this year's playwrights had to say about the world around them.

About the Author:

For over thirty years Lawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisition for Samuel French, Inc., during which time he was responsible for the first publication of such luminaries as Jane Martin, Don Nigro, Tina Howe, Theresa Rebeck, Jose Rivera, William Mastrosimone, Charles Fuller, and Ken Ludwig, among many others; and the acquisition of musicals such as SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN, PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES, A...MY NAME IS ALICE, and THREE GUYS NAKED FROM THE WAIST DOWN. He is currently Senior Editor for Smith and Kraus Publishers, Inc., the nation's largest theatrical trade publisher, for whom he edits annual anthologies of best plays by new playwrights, best ten-minute plays, best monologues for men and for women and best stage scenes. For many years he wrote a column on his adventures in the theater for the Chelsea News and The Westsider and now writes this weekly column for Smith and Kraus's web site smithandkraus.com. He has also served as literary manager or
literary consultant for several theaters, such as Urban Stages and American Jewish Theatre. He is a member of the NYC press corps and is an Outer Critics Circle member. He has served many times over the years as a judge and commentator for various national play contests and lectures regularly at colleges and universities.

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