Ten-minute plays
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Name (Latin)
Ten-minute plays
Other forms of name
10-minute plays
Flash drama
Flash plays
See Also From tracing topical name
One-act plays
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Q1582333
Library of congress:
sh2007001480
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Take ten II: more ten-minute plays, c2003:t.p.; p. vii (In the more than 25 years since the Actors Theater of Louisville announced its first Ten-Minute Play Contest, the ten-minute play has evolved from a novelty item to a vital new force in American theatre)
- Writing the award-winning play, 2003:p. 22 (for ten minute: this is a very short one act, usually running 10-12 pages)
- Young playwrights 101, c2005:p. 6 (ten-minute plays, the haiku of the playwrighting world; once you write a few ten-minute plays, you can write a one-act play of more substantial length)
- The complete idiot's guide to comedy writing, 2004:p. 263 (the ten-minute play, an extremely truncated version of the one-act format; you tell a complete story in about 10 minutes, using a very small number of costumes, sets and props)
- "Simple pleasures: the ten-minute play, overnight theatre, and the decline of the art of storytelling" New theatre quarterly:Vol. 19, pt. 1 (Feb. 2003) p. 67 (the ten-minute play is burgeoning in the United States, yet it has received little critical attention; the ten-minute play and its cousin, the "overnight play) p. 68 (just about every American dramatist seems to be writing ten-minute plays these days; effective short plays can be fun to watch; an evening of ten-minute plays is similar to variety theatre, since there is rarely any narrative thread or voice to hold the programme together)
Wikipedia description:
Flash drama is a type of theatrical play that does not exceed ten minutes in duration, hence the name. Groups of four to six flash drama plays are popular with school, university and community drama companies since they offer a wide variety of roles and situations in a single performance. There are no set rules for flash plays but the typical play has certain characteristics, such as: Consisting of one act Utilising one to three characters Simple, if any, set design
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