The Future is Short: Contemporary Short Plays for High School and College Students (Methuen Drama Play Collections)

Have you struggled to find short plays that challenge actors and directors for class and production?Do you require plays that are 10 minutes in length for competitions or class work?Are you interested in reading plays from some of the most exciting contemporary American writers? This anthology solves the above problems for theatre teachers and their students, offering excellent, contemporary material written for high school and college age actors within the last ten years. Each play selected features a distinct and unique voice in this eclectic and diverse volume targeted toward college and high school age actors, directors, and audiences. In these pages, you’ll find a delightful mix of plays - comedic, dramatic, thrilling, coming-of-age, political, silly, and just plain strange - created in the last few years. The 20 plays all feature no more than 5 characters, with a mix of gender roles for actors of different ages.Written by some of the most exciting contemporary voices in American