Recommended by Emmet L.F. Cameron

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    If you love a play that stretches the consequences of one moment of past panic out on a longer timeline than any of us will live to see, this one's for you.

    If you love a play that stretches the consequences of one moment of past panic out on a longer timeline than any of us will live to see, this one's for you.

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    A spectacularly spun tale of the hazards of creating under capitalism. Wonderful audio version on Gather by the Ghostlight.

    A spectacularly spun tale of the hazards of creating under capitalism. Wonderful audio version on Gather by the Ghostlight.

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    Wow, this is a play community theatres need right now! Andrea Aptecker skillfully uses an office allegory to paint fascist creep on the scale of 2 colleagues over ten minutes, as one of them begins to realize who she's been working with.

    Wow, this is a play community theatres need right now! Andrea Aptecker skillfully uses an office allegory to paint fascist creep on the scale of 2 colleagues over ten minutes, as one of them begins to realize who she's been working with.

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    Alaina Tennant doesn't shirk from depicting complex world history & personal history on the small canvas of a 10 minute play. The tightness of the time limit is played as a strength here, highlighting how brief the most impactful moments of our lives can be in real time -- & more often than not, they arrive not when we are rested & ready for them, but whenever we happen to get caught, ragged & bruised, in an opportunity to understand how another person's struggle is wrapped up in our own.

    Alaina Tennant doesn't shirk from depicting complex world history & personal history on the small canvas of a 10 minute play. The tightness of the time limit is played as a strength here, highlighting how brief the most impactful moments of our lives can be in real time -- & more often than not, they arrive not when we are rested & ready for them, but whenever we happen to get caught, ragged & bruised, in an opportunity to understand how another person's struggle is wrapped up in our own.

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    Williams speculates well, creating characters whose choices & desires make human sense within their circumstances, even though they are so alien to most of us looking into this diorama from our own circumstances.

    Williams speculates well, creating characters whose choices & desires make human sense within their circumstances, even though they are so alien to most of us looking into this diorama from our own circumstances.

  • Emmet L.F. Cameron: Pink Slippers by Jessica Feder-Birnbaum
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    A 10 minute window into what it can be like to put your health in the hands of a professional who you don't trust politically, though you have a good rapport with them personally. This play has great rhythm & resists the urge to wrap anything up, though it shows where the strings are that could eventually be pulled together in these characters' lives.

    A 10 minute window into what it can be like to put your health in the hands of a professional who you don't trust politically, though you have a good rapport with them personally. This play has great rhythm & resists the urge to wrap anything up, though it shows where the strings are that could eventually be pulled together in these characters' lives.

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  • Emmet L.F. Cameron: I Still Wonder What Happened To Robin Williams by Louis DeVaughn Nelson
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    This is the rare monologue that truly functions as a self-contained play. These 7 pages contain the ingredients for 1 human body to communicate to an audience the lonesomeness of suicidality, the mysterious bond between humans & our animal dependents/protectors, the weight of death, & the searchingness of life. On a personal note, as a mentally ill queer person who recently lost my cat, this hit me in a real place.

    This is the rare monologue that truly functions as a self-contained play. These 7 pages contain the ingredients for 1 human body to communicate to an audience the lonesomeness of suicidality, the mysterious bond between humans & our animal dependents/protectors, the weight of death, & the searchingness of life. On a personal note, as a mentally ill queer person who recently lost my cat, this hit me in a real place.

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  • Emmet L.F. Cameron: Ahavah by Dana Hall and David Lipschutz
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    You'll find love, loss, and a little bit of Jewish mysticism in this sweet 10 minute 2-hander. Easy to produce, hard to forget.

    You'll find love, loss, and a little bit of Jewish mysticism in this sweet 10 minute 2-hander. Easy to produce, hard to forget.

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  • Emmet L.F. Cameron: Joy Ride by Christine Foster
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    When presented with the tight boundary of a 10 minute play, it's easy & understandable for playwrights to lean on conventional family roles as a shorthand to tell a story quickly. In Joy Ride, Foster shows her skill, being just as efficient in introducing characters, living & dead, who don't necessarily relate to each other as their roles might suggest they "should" -- & will be all the more relatable to audiences for it.

    When presented with the tight boundary of a 10 minute play, it's easy & understandable for playwrights to lean on conventional family roles as a shorthand to tell a story quickly. In Joy Ride, Foster shows her skill, being just as efficient in introducing characters, living & dead, who don't necessarily relate to each other as their roles might suggest they "should" -- & will be all the more relatable to audiences for it.

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  • Emmet L.F. Cameron: Winter Light by Christine Foster
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    Whenever my sibling & I have fought, as children or as adults, our mother has always reminded us that our relationship with each other will outlive her, & will only become more complex as we face more challenges together. I've never encountered a play that feels so much like that advice, depicting how adult siblinghood is composed of moments of enduring childishness intertwined with the heaviness of those adult burdens & what we carry from our parents, whether or not we acknowledge it.

    Whenever my sibling & I have fought, as children or as adults, our mother has always reminded us that our relationship with each other will outlive her, & will only become more complex as we face more challenges together. I've never encountered a play that feels so much like that advice, depicting how adult siblinghood is composed of moments of enduring childishness intertwined with the heaviness of those adult burdens & what we carry from our parents, whether or not we acknowledge it.

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