| Kelly Stuart is the author of Mayhem, produced at The Evidence Room in Los Angeles; Demonology, produced at the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival and at Playwrights Horizons; and The Life of Spiders, which earned her a Whiting Fellowship in 2000, and will be produced by Holderness Theatre Company in New York City in the spring of 2004. Her other plays include Furious Blood, produced at Sledgehammer, and The Square Root of Terrible, produced at The Mark Taper Forum. Ms. Stuart currently lives in New York, and teaches Playwriting at Columbia University. |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
10 females, 13 males (10-24 actors possible)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
Bill of (W)Rights is a political funhouse growing from a moment in history when self-censorship abounds and the populace is increasingly governed by fear. Nine playwrights offer ten plays, each based on one of the U.S. Constitution's first ten amendments. These pieces focus less on government interference and more on the interpersonal, from a father and daughter facing a criminal trial to the silence of an unfaithful husband "pleading the fifth" to his family -- not to mention a company of actors yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. The creation of the script, encompassing a diversity of voices and opinions, was itself an act of democracy, demonstrating that theatre can be a voice of revelation and revolution.
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| "Mixed Blood's prescient, potent blend of zeitgeist and bold vision makes Bill of (W)Rights feel like the CNN of theater... The theatrical meditation on the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution is extraordinary in almost every respect." |
| --Dominic Papatola, St. Paul Pioneer Press |
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 10-12 minutes
3 females, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Ten-Minute Plays from the Guthrie Theater: Volume 2.
Four employees at a publishing company gab and gossip about how to pitch a dark new prison memoir, in this satire on the young white liberals' attitude towards race, and their willingness to embrace amorality.
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Comedy/Drama
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 6 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Since its founding in 1963, the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis has pioneered the American regional theater movement, bringing to life both the traditional classical repertoire and a diverse body of new works. The ten-minute plays in this volume were commissioned by the theater for its Guthrie Experience summer acting conservatory. The Volume 2 anthology includes six plays by six outstanding playwrights, every one expanding the possibilities of the ten-minute form.
To purchase this book of six plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Fairy Tale by Tracey Wilson In Darkness by Kevin Kling The Joy of Having a Body by Julie Marie Myatt The New New by Kelly Stuart Pleasure Cruise by Kira Obolensky The Roads That Lead Here by Lee Blessing
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