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A Simpler Time

We challenged nine playwrights to find the funny and familiar in every era in this collection of ten-minute plays.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 130 minutes

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary
We challenged nine playwrights to find the funny and familiar in every era in this collection of ten-minute plays. Designed to be flexible for your trip through the fourth dimension, these plays can be performed in any combination, and you can choose to thread them together with optional interludes that form a tale of three time travelers.

When you find yourself fighting with your friends on the night before the Constitution is due, listening in at a telephone switchboard in the 1940s, trying to avoid the more gruesome aspects of medieval times, or exploring a mysterious possible future, only one thing is certain: there's humor in human nature. 

This book contains nine 10-minute plays. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

Medieval Medicine by Claire Epstein
Safe Salem by Jonathan Dorf
Founding Fathers (Mothers) by Don Zolidis
Lady Washington by Tyler Dwiggins
Selfie Portrait by Carrie McCrossen
Weekend Warriors by Kathryn Funkhouser
Switcheroo by Mora V. Harris
A Forest Was This by Patrick Greene
Kids Today! by Ian McWethy

Characters

  • Casting: 8M, 8F, 14M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Flexible casting
  • Casting Notes: 16-55 actors possible: 8-47 f, 8-47 m

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We challenged nine playwrights to find the funny and familiar in every era in this collection of ten-minute plays. Designed to be flexible for your trip through the fourth dimension, these plays can be performed in any combination, and you can choose to thread them together with optional interludes that form a tale of three time travelers.

When you find yourself fighting with your friends on the night before the Constitution is due, listening in at a telephone switchboard in the 1940s, trying to avoid the more gruesome aspects of medieval times, or exploring a mysterious possible future, only one thing is certain: there's humor in human nature. 

This book contains nine 10-minute plays. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

Medieval Medicine by Claire Epstein
Safe Salem by Jonathan Dorf
Founding Fathers (Mothers) by Don Zolidis
Lady Washington by Tyler Dwiggins
Selfie Portrait by Carrie McCrossen
Weekend Warriors by Kathryn Funkhouser
Switcheroo by Mora V. Harris
A Forest Was This by Patrick Greene
Kids Today! by Ian McWethy

$24.95

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