10-Minute
10 Minute Play Scripts
Ten Minute Play Scripts have become increasingly popular with directors to put together an evening of short plays.
Find ten-minute comedies, ten-minute dramas, 10-minute dramedies, 10-minute scripts for interpretation, scripts for flash drama. Popular scripts feature 10 minute Monologues from the Bible New Testament and Old Testament, Short skits for Seniors. Instant printable PDF on purchase.
Some benefits of an evening of Ten Minute Plays are:
• More actors can participate taking major roles, without one or two leading actors having the responsibility of carrying an entire show.
• Rehearsals can be arranged for shorter periods to suit smaller groups.
• Minimal staging/set – less design and stage management work involved.
• Increased ticket sales and revenue – theatres can schedule weekday performances.
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$7.25 – $35.00
Daddy’s Silhouette
- 10 minutes
- 2F1M
From her earliest memory, Quiana, an African American woman in her twenties, is desperate for the love of an absentee father, which carries into her adulthood. Her fear of abandonment bleeds into her marriage to Tommy, an easy-going seaman, who demonstrates saint-like patience with his wife’s chronic daddy issues.
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$7.25 – $35.00
Papito
- 10 minutes
- 2F1M
Simple Set
Papito is a ten-page short play addressing parentification, specifically how a young man who grows up without a father assumes the partnership role with his mother and has difficulty establishing a healthy partnership with a significant other. The narrator, Zoe, is that significant other who is frustrated with her domineering mother-in-law and her husband who refuses to establish needed boundaries for his mom.
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$7.25 – $35.00
Candy and Toys
- 10 minutes
- 1 M/1F /Max/Min 2
Simple Set
A ten-page short play from a series of plays within a collection – Legacy of a Father – by playwright, Monique Franz. The script addresses the emotional toll on women raised without the love and affection of a father. Based on a real-life interview, the story highlights the negative impact of a culture that values sons over daughters, men over women.
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$7.25 – $35.00
Far from the Tree
- 10 minutes
- 1F2M
Simple Set
A father should be proud to witness his ambitious son strive to fulfill his career goals, except if the father is a narcissistic dad whose failures come to light by his son’s successes. In “Far from the Tree”, a comedy short play within “Legacy of a Father” series by playwright Monique Franz, the main character has to overcome his father’s tactics of sabotage to stay focused on his future.
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$7.25 – $35.00
The Legacy of an Invisible Father
- 10 minutes
- 2F2M
flexible cast, Simple Set
“The Legacy of an Invisible Father” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series “Legacy of a Father.” The short play highlights one woman’s futile attempt to locate a father through a private investigator. Angela’s lifelong loss of a father figure is further complicated by her biracial identity and her struggles with an unloving mother. Within the script, Angela must come to the terms that fate hadn’t been cruel to her at all, that maybe the absence of her father was the heavens working in her favor.
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$7.25 – $35.00
Unlocked Doors
- 10 minutes
- 0M2F
Simple Set
“Unlocked Doors” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series, “Legacy of a Father” , and touches on the impact of incest for one woman. Christine, a wife and mother in her thirties, is losing her faith and has hit an emotional wall due to the past sexual abuse of her father. Decades after the abuse, Christine is challenged to aggressively take back the control robbed from her as a child.
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$7.25 – $35.00
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
- 10 minutes
- 4-5M, 01-F, Max/Min 5
flexible cast, Simple Set
“Wrong Place, Wrong Time” is another 10-minute short in Monique Franz play series, “Legacy of a Father.” The script touches on the soil on which many troubled inner-city youth grow, especially those without the presence of a quality father figure. The script highlights the lack of choices that men of urban contexts are presented with, from birth until adulthood.
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$11.00 – $70.00
Playroom
- 110 Minutes
- 2F-5F, 2M - 5M
Simple Set
Playroom is a series of comedies created by the author as a way to explore the short play and “one act” format, one setting (and one evening) at a time. An otherwise ordinary family, the characters of Hinton’s Playroom are thrust into extraordinary, supernatural, and preternatural circumstances.
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$8.00 – $35.00
Talk the Night
- 20 Minutes
- 1F3M
Simple Set
Together, Drake and his grandfather, the dynamic vocal duo, broadcast call-in segments about aliens, werewolves, and all things crypto-zoological, but this particular show is about “time”: lost time, time outs, moments that feel like years,
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$8.00 – $35.00
Rich’s Well-Made
- 20 Minutes
- 1-4F, 1-4M
Simple Set
“Rich’s Well-Made”, set in the bathroom, is the second installment in the Playroom series. At its heart, Playroom is a series about exploring the hidden value of everyday spaces, as well as connecting (and reconnecting) with loved ones. Playroom is a theatrical experiment that examines the relationships of the nuclear family against the backdrops of a seemingly normal home.
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$8.00 – $35.00
Patres Familias
- 20 Minutes
- 2M/0F Max/Min 2
Simple Set
“Patres Familias” is the sixth installment in the Playroom series, and this one finds Rich just off of his back porch, stealing some time (and some beer) with his neighbor.
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$8.00 – $35.00
Out Out
- 20 Minutes
- 1 Male 1 Female Max/Min 2
Simple Set
“Out, Out” is the fourth installment in the Playroom series, and it may be set in the master bedroom. It seems like an ordinary end to an ordinary day when Rich and Carol retire for the night–until
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$8.00 – $35.00
Oil Pandango
- 20 Minutes
- 0-4M, 2-5F
Simple Set
“Oil Pandango” is the fifth installment in the Playroom series, and it’s set in the garage. A lot of teens take over the garage with dreams of starting a band, but Marla isn’t a lot of teens.
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$8.00 – $35.00
Dinner With Osmina
- 20 Minutes
- 2-3F, 2-4M
Simple Set
“Dinner with Osmina” is the seventh installment in the Playroom series, and it finally features the whole family in one place! The anticipation of a nice family dinner bringing everyone together explodes because of an unexpected guest.
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$8.00 – $35.00
All the Year
- 10 minutes
- 2F2M
Simple Set
Where has the time gone? The eighth and final installment of Hinton’s Playroom series, “All the Year”, is set in the living room – one decorated for every big day on the calendar.
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$8.00 – $35.00
The Straight Dope
- 10 minutes
- 2F2M
Simple Set
Jeff, a college student who, in his words, “has honorable intentions, a good future, and works out 3 times a week” asks his friend Bob for advice on women after he learns that Veronica can’t stomach him. He wonders if he’s asked the right person when he discovers that Bob doesn’t even know how Marvin Gaye died. Alicia puts it all into perspective.
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