Two friends test the bounds of what is real and what is imaginary with their friendly neighborhood street mime. Mime in a Box takes place on the streets of the Village in New York City. Mime in a Box, © 2007 by Stephen Bittrich The fun thing about this play is the theatricality of putting on clown make-up during the piece. A young radical clown challenges the spotlight of a veteran clown. )Īll About Biffo, © 2013 by Stephen BittrichĢ men (and 1 off-stage voice), 10 pages long, simple set.Īll About Biffo is a little like the movie All About Eve. It was recently expanded into a full-length play,Ĭalled Home of the Great Pecan. Of "Dramatics" magazine, a magazine geared toward theatreĮducators. It was directed by William McNulty with the followingīrain Sucking was published in the April, 1995 issue To be chosen that year to be produced at their Victor Jory Theatre,ĭecember, 1994. Was one of the few ten minute plays (out of about 1800 submissions) Of Louisville's "10 Minute Play Contest" in 1994. Relating some rather tasteless recent behavior toward his fiancée.īrain Sucking was a finalist in the Actor's Theatre One man recounts his tale of alien abduction, while also It plays close to 15 minutes), simple set.īrain Sucking takes place on a back porch in South ( Royalty information.)īrain Sucking, © 1992 by Stephen Bittrich There is also a 4 person version available. The jumping point is the old cliché of a man finding a fly in his soup.with some new twists. La Mouche takes place in a French restaurant in New York. South of Houston (Rom-Com, a cowboy from Texas meets a cute, East Village artist in a gallery of paintings he can't understand.)īee (Drama, in a Kafka-esque world of the future a man is interrogated after the disappearance of his "companion.")ģ men (you could sub in women for any of the parts), 11 pages long, simple restaurant set-perhaps only a table and chair. Queue (Comedy, an American actor tries to throw off his British competition as they wait for an audition to begin.) Hole (Drama, this 10-minute Appalachian mining cave-in play was published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011.)Ĭorybungus (Comedy, if you're like me, you might enjoy this ode to Monty Python. The Proposal (Drama, this Jane Austen Era short play was published in 2006: The Best Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors.) Jubilation, Mississippi (Like a Twilight Zone episode, a longer piece - about 20 minutes, a traveler finds himself in a town where everyone is annoyingly happy.) Mime in a Box (Philosophical Comedy, this play about a couple of regular guys pondering a street mime and the nature of reality seems to be a favorite of a lot of high schools and colleges and is often performed.) This is also the first scene of the full-length play, Home of the Great Pecan.)Īll About Biffo (Comedy, a nod to "All About Eve," a young, brash clown threatens the alpha status of an older clown.) Sucking (A Texas comedy, Finalist Actor's Theatre of Louisville Ten-Minute Play Contest, performed at Actors Theatre of Louisville in December, 1994, AND published in Dramatics Magazine, April, 1995. The original is a 3 person play, and there is a 4 person version.) It's a 10 minute play great for high schools or colleges / universities. Mouche (Comedy, Stephen's favorite of his one-acts with silly French waiters. One-Acts Written for (or Edited for) High Schools Short One-Acts | 10 Minute Plays for High Schools by Stephen Bittrich
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