Authors: Eric Lane (Editor), Nina Shengold
ISBN-13: 9781400032174, ISBN-10: 1400032172
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Nina Shengold won the ABC Playwright Award and the LA Weekly Award for her play "Homesteaders." Her one-acts have been performed all over the country, and her TV scripts include Hallmark Hall of Fame's "Blind Spot," starring Joanne Woodward, and "Silent Night." A founding member of the theater company Actors & Writers, she lives in upstate New York.
Eric Lane is an award-winning playwright, filmmaker and book editor. Plays include: Times of War, Cater-Waiter and Dancing on Checkers’ Grave, which starred Jennifer Aniston. His new play Heart of the City has been optioned for off-Broadway. Eric has written and produced two short films: First Breath and Cater-Waiter, which he also directed. Honors include a Writer’s Guild Award, La MaMa Playwright Award, Berrilla Kerr Award and two-time O’Neill Center finalist. He has won fellowships at Yaddo and St. James Cavalier in Malta. Eric is Artistic Director of Orange Thoughts Productions, a not-for-profit theater & film company in New York City.
Shengold and Lane are the editors of Plays for Actresses and Take Ten: New Ten-Minute Plays, both in Vintage. For Penguin they edited Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays, The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays, and The Actor's Book of Gay & Lesbian Plays, which was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award.
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.
Introduction | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Antigone's Red | 3 | |
Arabian Nights | 17 | |
Classyass | 29 | |
The Cure | 41 | |
Daniel on a Thursday | 47 | |
Deer Play | 63 | |
El Depresso Espresso | 77 | |
El Santo Americano | 89 | |
Emotional Baggage | 99 | |
Faith | 111 | |
Fight Dreams | 119 | |
The Find | 129 | |
The Grand Design | 139 | |
It's Not You | 153 | |
Kitty the Waitress | 163 | |
Left to Right | 173 | |
The Levee | 185 | |
Marred Bliss | 197 | |
Men's Intuition | 207 | |
The Moon Please | 217 | |
My Red Hand, My Black Hand | 229 | |
Night Visits | 247 | |
Nine Ten | 259 | |
Playwriting 101: The Rooftop Lesson | 269 | |
Rosie in the Shadow of the Melrose | 281 | |
A Rustle of Wings | 293 | |
Sinnery of a Sunday | 305 | |
The Sniper | 315 | |
Space | 325 | |
Stuck | 333 | |
Table 5 at Empire Szechwan | 343 | |
Twenty Dollar Drinks | 355 | |
21 | 367 | |
Virginia Street | 375 | |
A Whole House Full of Babies | 391 | |
Contributors | 399 | |
About the Editors | 407 | |
Index | 409 | |
Permissions Acknowledgments | 411 |