PLAYS TEN MINUTES or LESS

FIVE - TEN MINUTE PLAYS
_______	>COMIC STRIP – 10 mins. 1/f 1/m Daisy & Glum (clowns) getting ready for a Circus-People spouse-swapping party. - Part of “No Sweetheart Required”, An evening of short plays about love…or the lack thereof.  February 2005 at The Village Players Theatre – Toronto, On. Canada. ABOUT SURREAL LIFE – 4/f 5/m – 10 mins. Set in a bar. It’s like in Star Trek – you know, the guy in the landing party wearing the red shirt. – Asphalt Jungle Shorts I – various locations downtown Kitchener.  Sept 2006. Flush Ink Productions. >STRINGER – 6min – 1/f 1/m Landlord and tenant discuss the prospect/absurdity of putting a window in the 2^nd bedroom. - Därk Horse Drämatists (200 Miles Off Broadway) – Deposit NY, June 2013 - Asphalt Jungle Shorts IX – Kitchener, Ont. - Därk Horse Drämatists (200 Miles Off Broadway) – Binghamton NY, June 2013 EXIT THE SOMALIAN FIRE MAN 9min – 2/f (late teens) Can a story talk her best friend out of suicide? – Rabid Marmot Productions – FAR FROM CRAZY – October 2011. > THE POINT OF SURRENDER – 8 mins. 1/f 1/m Is Kate on the verge of discovering her sexual submissive side, with the aid of a very alpha Vincent? (a bit risqué) - Asphalt Jungle Shorts VII by Flush Ink Productions –Kitchener, ON. Directed by Robin Bennett, performed by Nicholas Cumming &Katharine Mills. - Asphalt Jungle Shorts X – Directed by Paddy GB, performed by Jane & John Watson > CHAOS OF THE MINDS – 8min. 2/f 2/m The weirdo magnet is on and on high. Why do all the crazy people want to talk to her? - Asphalt Jungle Shorts VII by Flush Ink Productions –Kitchener, ON. Directed by Paddy Gillard-Bentley, performed by Arlene Thomas, Roger Sumner, Kate Gregg & Bruce Wolff. THIS QUANTUMM ENTANGLEMENT – 10 mins. 1/f 1/m (a ten-minute version of the one-act play) One misunderstood sentence – seven words – and the fate of these two lovers is altered – forever. > COAXING THE KITTY – 2/f 10mins. Kat is dying. Can her uptight friend help her find a ‘woman’ to taste? Getting through the bucket list the interesting way. Funny, the journey might be more about Cynthia, than it is about Kat. - The Women’s Theatre Project – Girl Play – June 2009, WILTON MANORS – FLORIDA. - Part of She Speaks 2007 - Part of She Speaks 2011 (called, Kat’s Meow) > RING TONE – 1/f 2/m – 10 mins. He’s going to have to marry her now, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer schmuck. This is a site-specific piece that only works if it’s performed 25 feet below the sidewalk, with the audience watching through a huge grate. – Asphalt Jungle Shorts IV, Downtown Kitchener, May 22 – 31, 2008.  Presented by Flush Ink Productions. >HONEY MEET THE BICKERSONS – 2/f 1/m 10 mins. They never stop fighting, and it does not make them charming. – ASPHALT JUNGLE SHORTS III – Downtown Kitchener, Sept. 2007 – Flush Ink Productions. ENIGMAS – Written by Virgil Burnett with Paddy Gillard-Bentley. 8mins. 1/f 1/m A beautiful poetic exchange between strangers. He is an aged artist, and she – youthful and inquisitive. What will they learn from each other? - Part of Asphalt Jungle Shorts VI – June 2010. PICTURES
	FIVE MINUTE PLAYS > WELL BREAD – 1/f 1/m A chance meeting, he’s smitten. She hates puns. They both like Shakespeare. - Asphalt Jungle Shorts X – Kitchener, On. Sept. 2013 DAMN FINE – 1/f 1/m (either) Crazy banter between two friends/lovers/strangers – you decide. – Asphalt Jungle Shorts IX – Kitchener, On. June 2013 GIVE THESE MOMENTS BACK TO ME – 2/f Two young women meet and discover the source of their grief is connected. A two-hander version of the monologue performed in AJS VIII > HOWARD & THE SNAKE – 2/m (doesn’t matter) God and Satan converse about the state of things. - Asphalt Jungle Shorts X – Kitchener, On. Sept. 2013 - Asphalt Jungle Shorts I – Kitchener, Sept 2006.  Flush Ink Productions.
UNDER FIVE MINUTES AND COUNTING Sometimes, a one or two-minute version of a longer play.
HOWARD & THE SNAKE – 2/m Short version of God and the Devil throwing slings and arrows. - The Harvest Theatre of Toledo's 1 - Page International Play Festival, Sept. 12005 Toledo Ohio, USA GIVE THESE MOMENTS BACK TO ME – 3 mins. 1/f late teens. A young girl laments the death of her boyfriend due to a drunk driver. – Asphalt Jungle Shorts VIII (Flush Ink Productions) May/June 2012 IN TENSE CITY – 1/f 2/m - “PICKING UP THE PIECES”, a series of thought provoking monologues and short plays dealing with domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.  January 2005, Grand Forks ND, USA. - The Harvest Theatre of Toledo's 1 - Page International Play Festival, Sept. 12005 Toledo Ohio, USA - JAVA THEATRE PRESEN - FIVE VERY SHORT PLAYS At Tazza Caffe, Providence, RI, USA. September 9 -11. Directed by Directed by Milton Coykendall.  With Scott Levine and Sarah Robinson.  MORE HERE EXTERNAL MUSINGS – 1/f 1/m 1 min. - Gone in 60 Seconds.  June 16 - 18 at 8:00 pm, in the New Workshop Theater at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.   Julia – Emily Zempel, Michael – Chris Ford. FRAILTY THY NAME IS WOE – 1/f 1/m 1m (2, 3, 10 also available) sidebar of Hamlet – what has more power in death, love or revenge? Hamlet’s Father’s ghost and The Neophyte ghost, Ophelia, sort it out. (1min, 2min) - Gone in 60 Secs. Thursday, June 30, 2005 in the New Workshop Theater at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.  Hamlet’s Father’s Ghost – Christopher Gilkey, Ophelia – Jenn Perez. ONE TENDER LIE - 1/f 1/m (teens) 2min. - Two-Page Play Festival in Sacramento in July – Aug 2004 at the Geery Theatre. - Java Theatre’s 32 2-min plays, 8 actors, 2 locations, May 2005, at The Actor’s Workshop, Boston MA. OSCILLATING CURRENT - 3/f 2min. - GI60 – Leeds UK, June 2008	LIFE–THE EPILOGUE - 2mins. 2/f 2/m Would most people recognize when the world is coming to an end? - Part of GI60 – directed by Rose Burnett Bonczek, with Mike Pierre Louis, Vera Khodasevich and Mack Exilius.  Brooklyn, NY – June 2010. - Asphalt Jungle Shorts VII by Flush Ink Productions – Kitchener, ON. Directed by Tracey Kenyon, performed by Jessica Singh, John Fielding & Roger Sumner. WELL BREAD & LOAFING AROUND – 1/f 1/m – 2mins. Romeo and Juliet never made horrible puns like these. But soft…what light rye through yonder window bake. - Part of Spare Change Theatre’s ‘In a NY Minute’. - GONE IN 60 SECONDS – June 8 & 9, 2007 – New Workshop Theatre at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.  Directed by Jonathan Hadley. - Asphalt Jungle Shorts II – Downtown Kitchener, SEE THIS ON YouTube – Asphalt Jungle Lederhosen – Downtown Kitchener, October 2007 – Flush Ink Productions.  MORE MUCK – 1/f 1/m (1min & 3min. version) 1/f 1/m - Breaking up is so much easier to do, when she does it for you. - Part of GI60 – directed by Rose Burnett Bonczek, Sabrina C. Cataudella & Mack Exilius.  Brooklyn, Ny – June 2009. - Asphalt Jungle Shorts V – Flush Ink Productions. Directed by Tracey Kenyon. Performed by Emma Dines & Bruce Wolff. ROSE-COLOURED SHOT GLASSES – 2/f 1min. Two friends wonder where they will be in five years. GI60 – Brooklyn NY, June 2008 ONCE RUPTURED – 1/f 1/m – 1min. One lie is like an earwig, somewhere in your tent. GONE IN 60 SECONDS – June 8 & 9, 2007 – New Workshop Theatre at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.  Directed by Rose Burnett Bonczek. EXTERNAL MUSINGS – 1/f 1/m – 1min. 1/f 1/m – An allegory for a man who is afraid to love. - GI60 – Brooklyn NYC , 2009 - The Harvest Theatre of Toledo's 1 - Page International Play Festival, Sept. 12005 Toledo Ohio, USA
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