Overview

The tenth collection of published plays by the Theater Masters’ National MFA ten-minute play festival, Take Ten.

This collection, Theater Masters’ Take Ten Vol. 10, is comprised of the following plays:

The Moon is Upside Down by Comfort Ifeoma Katchy (2 women)
The Moon is Upside Down is an exploration of what it means to have faith amidst crisis.

The Quiet Rule by Connor Johnson (1 woman)
This play is an apology to all the people I have secretly gotten upset with for talking at the library.

Usurpations by Natalie Lambert (3 women, 3 men)
A group of children collect what little scraps of writing are left in the fallout of a world in which words are being destroyed and forgotten.

Carrots by Ally Merkel (2 men)
Best friends Jack and Everett shoot hoops the night before Jack is supposed to depart for a summer at piano camp - an event that Jack is determined to get himself out of, even if that means losing some appendages.

2052 by Gretchen Suárez-Peña (2 women, 1 man)
It's not the end of the world, but it feels like it. Almost three billion have died so far, and Isolde struggles to find the reasons for the losses - including that of his late girlfriend, Maite.

The Courtship Ritual of Sandhill Cranes by Emma Watkins (2 femme actors)
Two docents at the Heart of Texas Natural History Museum contemplate what happens when you study your life instead of living it. A play in dioramas.