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The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theater enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our time. Selections include:
- Beta Testing by Jenny Lyn Bader
- The Fourteenth Annual Foot Puppet Festival by Holly Hepp-Galvan
- Glasstown by Don Nigro
- Incident on the Golden Gate Bridge by David MacGregor
- Oxycontin Follies by Steve Gold
- Two Artists Trying to Pay Their Bill by Lucy Wang
- The Scottish Loo by J. Thalia Cunningham
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