BARROOM TALES
Patrons can't help noticing the 6' rat quietly drinking at the bar. Bartender just wants to let him the guy have his drink, but the patrons have a different take on the situation. A short tale with a little bite to it.

Cast: 6

Length: 10 minutes

Performance Rights: Meredith Bean McMath

BLIND DATE
When an internet blind date goes from really bad to let-me-crawl-under-the-table-and-die, you have a ten-minute comedy that tweaks our understanding of prejudice toward the physically challenged.

A woman arranges a blind date through the internet. When he meets her at the restaurant, she discovers he's actually blind (something he told her by e-mail on a day her e-mail was down). The audience is allowed to believe her discomfort is due to the discovery of his handicap. But when her date leaves, we discover the truth: she tells the waiter she wants to leave, and he brings her wheelchair to the table.

Vanessa Smiley as Gwen, Keegan Donovan as John, and Aaron Magaha as the Waiter - working
through Blind Date in an Ike Stoneberger Drama Class, Loudoun Valley High School, March 2004

One Set or Black Box: table, two chairs, wheelchair

Cast: 3

Length: 10 minutes

Performance Rights: Meredith Bean McMath

HONOR: Finalist in the 2006 Theatre Oxford 10- Minute Play Competition, Oxford, MS.

THE COLLEGE OF HER CHOICE

She's run away to follow her dream; what's a parent to do?  The signs were all there — the big shoes, the plastic flowers, the never-ending handkerchiefs, the way she and her friends used to stuff themselves into a mini coup — they just didnt' want to see it.  So, she's run away to Clown School.  So embarrassing... especially when her parents happen to run a famous School for Mime.
Cast: One male; One female

Length: Ten Minutes

Performance Rights: Meredith Bean McMath

FLY THE PIG
Whilte pitching a Civil War movie to a Hollywood producer, the writer quickly realizes why true stories never make it to the Big Screen. "No one wants to watch the truth crawl by," yells the producer as she desparately looks for a cigarette.  Out of her top drawer come bottles, a needle, and finally a cigarette... which she proceeds to try to light from the wrong end.  In the end, the writer lets her know she'll send the script along just as soon as pigs fly.  The producer's final word, "Yeah, Babe?  I had a piece of that..."   Based on all too true conversation with a Hollywood producer.

One Set: Table and 2 chairs

Cast: 2

Length: 10 minutes

Performance Rights: Meredith Bean McMath

STICKS & STONES
Her brother needed to ask forgiveness. She'd always blamed herself. For once in their life, they may find the truth
doesn't hurt at all.

This ten-minute, two character play explores childhood sexual abuse. A brother in a Twelve Step for cocaine abuse needs to do his ninth step: make amends. In trying to apologize for sexual exploration in their youth, his sister explains it wasn't his fault but hers - that she let a boy do things to her years before, when she was only five. Her brother begins to question her memories of the event - it might not have been her fault at all...

L to R: Morgan El-Shafey, Meredith Bean McMath, Tom Sweitzer and Charles Upton

at the 2003 Source Theatre Ten-Minute Play Competition. Morgan and

Tom portrayed Beth and James and Charles Upton directed.

One Set: table, two chairs

Cast: One Male, One Female

Length: 10 minutes

Performance Rights: Meredith Bean McMath

AWARD: First Prize in the 2003 Source Theatre 10-Minute Play Competition, Source Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Kate Yuhas as Beth, William Repoley as James in the University of North Carolina

performance in December 2003, directed by Nate Juraschek.