Performing 10-Minute Plays with Friends: A guide to do-it-yourself theater

It is great fun when friends get together to perform 10-minute plays. This is very informal do-it-yourself theater. No memorizing lines - - these are script-in-hand performances. Props are minimal. Costumes come right out of your closet - - unless you feel like doing more. Everybody acts. Anyone can choose to direct. Perhaps you will write your own 10-minute play for the group.This is your complete guide. It explains how to find plays, how to cast your actors, and how to set up your “stage,” whether in your home or in a larger space such as the community room of your local library. The book teaches non-actors how to act and never-tried-it directors how to direct. The book points you to many 10-minute plays and includes 10 diverse, fully engaging scripts with which to get started.If you’d like to write your own 10-minute plays, see the companion book Writing the 10-Minute Play. Also check out Dave’s two collections: Fourteen Jewish Flavored 10-Minute Plays and Academic Life in Sixteen 10-Minute Plays. Read more