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A More Perfect Ten |
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A More Perfect Ten Writing and Producing the Ten-Minute Play
2009 • 978-1-58510-327-0 • paper • 178 pages • 6 x 9 • $16.95
A brief guide to writing the short play with introduction, list of theaters and producing organizations that look for ten-minute plays, and helpful sample templates. | About the Author | Table of Contents | Introduction | Reviews |
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Description A More Perfect Ten is a revision of Gary Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute play, and it is now the most authoritative book on this emerging play form. The 10-minute play has become a regular feature of theatre companies and festivals from coast to coast, and Garrison has distilled the advice of many of those people who had been instrumental in promoting the ten minute play for the last few years. Replete with advice and tips on creating the successful 10-minute play, and cautions for avoiding the pitfalls, this new edition also includes addresses for the biggest and most important ten-minute festival opportunities, new sample ten minute plays and questions for thought and discussion, and sample layout templates for laying out the play for submission. The savvy playwright at any level of skill can use this little book to great advantage. Plus Gary Garrison is warm, funny, irreverent, and essential.
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Gary Garrison is a playwright and author, as well as the Executive Director for Creative Affairs of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Artistic Director and Division Head of Playwriting for the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at the Tisch School of Arts. He is also the former National Chair of Playwrighting for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival, as well as the Artistic Director for the First Look Theatre Company and the recently formed Playwrights PlayGround.
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I wouldn’t be crazy enough to label this a "How To Write A Ten-Minute Play" book, but I will suggest that what follows is a brief guide for writing the newest form in theatre. If you’re a playwright, consider this a primer for what makes good, compelling theatre and discover how that has no less a place in these little hors d’oeuvre dramas. If you’re a theatre manager, director, or artistic director, we’re going to look at the very real practicalities of producing ten-minute plays. We’ll also examine six different writers’ approaches in constructing a ten-minute play and discover how singularity of voice is every bit as true in a tightly constricted form. And last, you’re going to write your own ten-minute play and explore it, dramaturgically, against the ideas presented in the book. A word of caution: like all creative ventures, the process takes longer than the product. And that’s a good thing. And don’t take the title of the book wrong: I’m not trying to get you to write a perfect ten-minute play; I’m tying to perfect you writing a ten-minute play. |
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Gary Garrison's plays are simply the best short plays around. We beg him every year to put something in our Boston Theater Marathon, and every year he outdoes himself with plays that speak to our foibles, our complexities, and always, always our humanity. It's no wonder he has written a how-to book about it—he's the master! Kate Snodgrass It is not often that you can find an expert who is able to share their knowledge and guide others as openly and tirelessly as Gary Garrison does during the Southeastern Theatre Conference's annual convention. As the respondent for the Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, he not only teaches through the production critiques, he can often be found working with a production group long after the formal theatre response. Bravo Gary Garrison!
~Betsey Baun |
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