Twenty 10-Minute Plays for Teens Volume I

I purchased this book along with several others. It's worthless and devoid of any artistic merit.The plays are filled with monosyllabic replies, the dialogue is often 1-2 lines or less per character and the stories are devoid of conflict and characterization.What's worse is that the plays aren't 10 minutes. They're all over the place on page count.This does not sound anything like teens either. Maybe teens in Idaho or somewhere out in the Bible belt, but nowhere near any inhabited urban areas.If you can get away with it and want to do "edgy theater", just give the kids a Danny Hoch book. If you want a garden variety book of YA plays, get "Center Stage".How something like this was published baffles me.

I purchased this with two other collections of short plays for teens to use with the high school drama club I run. I was rather disappointed with the characterizations and some of the very large cast sizes for very short plays. The students (urban high school) I work with and I found the characters to be rather flat caricatures of teenage angst rather than deeper characters that my students have become interested in portraying. The one gem I found here was 'The Ten Minute High School Experience,' which takes a modern stripped down approach to theatre and puts experimental theatre into a lens that my students can understand. I wish more of the writing, characterization and dialogue had been like it.

I was looking for material for ages 12 - 18 for a summer camp. Most of the material in this book has drug or sexual references, not in a positive light for teaching about theater craft. It appeals to the lowest common denominator of teen life. There was not one of twenty plays that was suitable.

Good compilation.

I bought these to use with my first-year drama students! They are a great resource for quick-to-memorize scenes! Highly recommended for students who are just exploring their dramatic side!

After reading Ms. Dabrowski's first book, I was intrigued to see what else she could produce, especially for an age group that's difficult to please when it comes to finding material that both they like and that adults can appreciate too. While many kids are starting to read Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and the like at this age, it's hard for them to associate completely with those works. Having short plays, on subjects that are close to home and that they can relate to, makes more of an impact, and Ms. Dabrowski doesn't disappoint with this latest installment. She hits a lot of home runs - 20 of them, in fact, with this book. I highly recommend reading-- and acting -- the plays in this book.

When I read Kristen Dabrowski's Twenty 10-Minute Plays for Teens it made me wish I was a teenager again.The writing is extremely witty and as every good actor knows, you need to have a character that goes on a journey, a character that changes through the course of the play. Some playwrights find this a hard graft when they have an hour and a half to prove their point, so it amazes me that Kristen Dabrowski can do this in ten minutes.Teens won't be disappointed.

I purchased this book for my sister who teaches drama to teenagers. She loves this work. It's funny, touching and speaks directly to the kids. I would recommend Dabrowski's books to anyone who wants to introduce quality material to young performers.