Take Ten II: More Ten-Minute Plays - Softcover

A second collection of diverse short plays--including comedies, dramas, monologues, and avant-garde works--features the work of such distinguished American playwrights as Steven Dietz, Rebecca Gilman, Christopher Durang, David Ives, Tina Howe, Donald Margulies, Susan Miller, Warren Leight, and Mark O'Donell, among others. Original. 12,500 first printing.

A ten-minute play is a blaze of theatrical energy. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking collection Take Ten, editors Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have put together a veritable bonfire of talent. Take Ten II: More 10-Minute Plays" provides a fast-track tour of the current theatrical landscape, from the slapstick ingenuity of David Ives' "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.