![]() ![]() He has two “big” plays on his computer, he explains, that will never be produced. So Fitzmorris read the other plays and wrote something for the occasion, though not exactly from scratch. “My 10-minute plays are pretty wild and imaginative, though, and Mark didn’t think they fit in with the others he’d chosen.” “Mark (Jenkins) knew I’d had some of my plays produced elsewhere, so he asked me to submit some scripts for consideration,” Fitzmorris says. James Fitzmorris, a doctoral student in theory and criticism, is the author of Le Chat Noir, which tells the story of one couple’s relationship. Only one of the playwrights, William Mastrosimone ( Extremities, Shivaree) is well known generally, but one of them is well known in the drama school. He says their themes and approaches vary widely, from comedy to fantasy to drama. It was out of these collections that Jenkins chose the plays to be presented. Ten-minute plays are established enough as a format that there are actually collections of them available for purchase. “If you don’t like one of the plays, wait 10 minutes and it’ll be over and another one will start.” “It’s really a fail-safe evening of theater,” Jenkins says. ![]() And 11 actors from the Professional Actor Training Program take on multiple roles to form the casts of all the plays. Three graduate directors are each directing one of the remaining plays. “With the 10-minute plays, a graduate actor can work with a student director in one play and a faculty director in another.”įaculty member Mark Jenkins is directing five of the plays and coordinating the festival as a whole. “It allows us to address a perennial problem, which is the constant balance we have to strike between directing students who need to work with graduate actors and graduate actors needing to work with more experienced directors,” said Drama School Director Sarah Nash Gates. Now that ATL’s former director, Jon Jory, is a professor in the School of Drama, it’s no surprise that the school has decided to launch a 10-minute play festival. Never heard of a 10-minute play? It’s a form popularized by Actors Theatre of Louisville, which has been producing them at its Humana Festival of New Plays for years. How can they make such an offer? By presenting 10-minute plays - brief gems of dramatic writing that take you through a complete story in less time than most people spend on a coffee break. Next week the School of Drama is inviting people to see eight plays for the price of one. ![]() Eight short plays are planned for the event, which will run from Feb. Mark Jenkins, director of the UW’s 10-minute play festival, meets with actors who will participate in the first such event on campus. ![]()
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