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Alice In Love
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A teenage girl making a decision about becoming sexually active
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Bakers Plays
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Youth one act
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Big Random, The
Claire is a troubled teen in a psychiatric ward when her middle aged godFather helps her escape
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Penstroke Press
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Helen At Risk
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Helen takes her ideals to prison along with her workshop in creative mask-making. When a wise-guy inmate starts acting up, however, self-expression takes a nasty turn, and art provides the imprimatur for deadly craft
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Samuel French in Ten-Minute Plays: Volume 3 from Actors Theatre of Louisville; by Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '95, the Complete Plays; by Vintage Books in Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays; and in the journal Art Teatral: Cuadernos de Minipiezas Ilustrad, 1995
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Ten Min
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Importees
Now an annual tradition, the Boston theater Marathon utilizes hundreds of actors and dozens of directors to sponsor 50 ten-minute plays in 10 hours (five plays per hour!), each one supported by a different New England theatre company
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Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 Anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 Anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays ~ By Kate Snodgrass (ed) - Smith and Kraus, 2010
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Mad River Rising
A Vermont farm family and the effects of the 1927 floods
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Penstroke Press
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Men in Heat
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Emerson Stage
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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 2, Bakers Plays,
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Midwives
Midwife Sybil is stranded by the weather with a woman who is having a complicated birth. Sybil is put on trial by the medical authorities over what happened that night
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Based on the novel by Chris Bohjalian
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Round House Theatre, Bethesda, Md
01 Feb 2006
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Penstroke Press
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Missing Bagel Factor, The
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Speakeasy Stage Co.
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Redshirts
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What do Emily Dickenson, iambic pentameter, and modern poetry have to do with a bunch of newly recruited black college football players, itching to make the next great play and score with a just gimme the ball, dammit mentality? these are just a few of the many elements mixed in cuisinart whirling speed in Round House's Silver Spring production of redshirts.
Debbie Minter Jackson, dctheatre scene
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Round House In Silver Spring, Washington Dc
2007
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Roundhouse Theatre
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Running For Daylight
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Swing State
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Bonnie has promised God she'll save every little soul in her Appalachian Kindergarten class, and if that means risking her job, or happens to trigger her chronic back pain - well, so be it. Neil, the new chiropractor in town, sees things differently. A gay, new-age transplant from Brooklyn, Neil is over the moon when his first treatment turns out to be a miracle cure. But Bonnie is feeling things she hasn't felt in years and has a different response: Put me back. the moment Neil refuses, they're off. . ..and another epic battle in the Culture Wars is ON.This show is part of the New York Musical theatre Festival.
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Music By: Andy Mitton; Book & Lyrics By: Dana Yeaton
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Gay/Lesbian, of interest
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Ten-Minute Dad , The
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Pilgrim Theatre and Performance Collaborative
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play Ten Min
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