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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 comediesten-minute dramas10-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.

  • John Hinkley Jr. (attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan) must use his newly-learned coping skills to deal with the news that the "love of his life", Jodie Foster, is not "playing on the same team" that he'd always assumed she was.
  • A man is lied to when he volunteers for a psychological experiment on the role of pain in learning. His experience leaves him scarred. Twenty years later, he confronts the psychologist who conducted the experiment. To inflict revenge? T0 get an apology? Does he even know why? Do we?
  • A one-act Christmas comedy - a play with live music for young actors, telling the story of how the Christmas song "Silent Night" came to be written. Set in Oberndorf, Austria in 1818, the play is staged with live guitar in a Readers Theatre format. Memorized historical vignettes are combined with a straight-forward Christmas reading. But it soon goes "off-book" as student readers question the truth of the text they're reading, and they end up squabbling on stage among themselves. Just when their performance seems doomed, Josef Mohr remembers a short poem he had been writing—Silent Night.
  • All the Year

    $9.97$50.00
    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.
  • Anecdotal Evidence

    $8.00$55.00
    A comedic look at how, as a society, we have become so dependent on double-blind studies that we can no longer make simple decisions. A quick journey thru history!
  • Candy and Toys

    $7.25$35.00
    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.
  • Cell

    $9.97$50.00
    Cell, a 10-minute comedy for 4 actors, takes us inside connecting and disconnecting calls among 4 different cell phone users. Each looking for answers to the central problems in their lives with hilarious results.
  • Daddy’s Silhouette

    $7.25$35.00
    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.
  • Who hasn’t struggled with expanding technology? In these three 10-minute comedies, cell phones disrupt lives to uncover a serial philander, a GPS unit miraculously provides comfort to a widower, and Everyman seeks, in vain, a Representative!
  • Dinner With Osmina

    $8.00$35.00
    “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.
  • A man commits triple murder and his lawyer is stricken with guilt at the realization that “success” means his client will get three meals a day and cable TV for the rest of his life.
  • Employee of the Month

    $9.97$50.00
    Randy works at a large department store but is very creative in generating sales. Just when he thinks that he'll win "Employee of the Month" for the 2nd time in a row (and impress Mary in the process), he learns that his winning would not fit with the company goals.
  • Far from the Tree

    $7.25$35.00
    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.
  • Going to the Dogs

    $6.97$17.99
    In this 10-Minute original farce, a free-thinking retired woman, Sylvia, discovers that her deceased husband has been reincarnated as her dog. A surreal and hilarious Fantasy/Comedy by Pamela Steadman. Acting script.
  • Inside and Out

    $9.97$50.00
    This 10-minute poetic play dramatizes a mother's attempt to reach inside the autistic mind of her young son. Characters include Jonah, the boy, his mother, Jonah's mind. The play is a great change of pace in an evening of short plays and as an introduction to discussion groups and classes in social work and mental health settings.
  • Kings and Pawns

    $9.97$50.00
    Kings and Pawns is a comic 10-minute play based on the story of David and Bathsheba--a contemporary-sounding look at the spoils of love and war.

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