The Ten-Minute Workshop

by Con Chapman

The Ten-Minute Workshop is a play about . . . ten-minute plays: an actor/actress shows up at a school offering a course in acting for ten-minute plays, and is abused/disabused by the instructor as to the essence of the genre.
It was performed at the Hovey Players Summer Shorts Festival in Waltham, Mass., where it was the favorite comedy of “The Theater Mirror: New England’s Live Theatre Guide.” It was also...

The Ten-Minute Workshop is a play about . . . ten-minute plays: an actor/actress shows up at a school offering a course in acting for ten-minute plays, and is abused/disabused by the instructor as to the essence of the genre.
It was performed at the Hovey Players Summer Shorts Festival in Waltham, Mass., where it was the favorite comedy of “The Theater Mirror: New England’s Live Theatre Guide.” It was also performed as part of the “Buffalo Quickies Festival” at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, New York.

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The Ten-Minute Workshop

One male, the student; one female, the instructor. There are four other bit roles that may be doubled, tripled or even quadrupled by a single male: The announcer, the show-tune singer, the actor, and the stage manager.