found: Work cat.: Take ten II: more ten-minute plays, c2003:t.p.; p. vii (In the more than 25 years since the Actors Theater of Louisville announced its first Ten-Minute Play Contest, the ten-minute play has evolved from a novelty item to a vital new force in American theatre)
found: Writing the award-winning play, 2003:p. 22 (for ten minute: this is a very short one act, usually running 10-12 pages)
found: Young playwrights 101, c2005:p. 6 (ten-minute plays, the haiku of the playwrighting world; once you write a few ten-minute plays, you can write a one-act play of more substantial length)
found: The complete idiot's guide to comedy writing, 2004:p. 263 (the ten-minute play, an extremely truncated version of the one-act format; you tell a complete story in about 10 minutes, using a very small number of costumes, sets and props)
found: "Simple pleasures: the ten-minute play, overnight theatre, and the decline of the art of storytelling" New theatre quarterly:Vol. 19, pt. 1 (Feb. 2003) p. 67 (the ten-minute play is burgeoning in the United States, yet it has received little critical attention; the ten-minute play and its cousin, the "overnight play) p. 68 (just about every American dramatist seems to be writing ten-minute plays these days; effective short plays can be fun to watch; an evening of ten-minute plays is similar to variety theatre, since there is rarely any narrative thread or voice to hold the programme together)
found: Wikipedia, Oct. 30, 2012(under Playwright: Play formats: 10-minute play: Popularized over the past 20 years and now a staple of most play festivals, and many play contests. Takes on a number of approaches from traditional conflict-driven to very experimental. Useful in playwriting workshops and with beginning playwrights since the format requires rigor, yet can be processed or produced without onerous technical requirements; under One-act play: In recent years, the 10-minute play known as "flash drama" has emerged as a popular sub-genre of the one-act play, especially in writing competitions; under Flash drama: Flash drama is a type of theatrical play that does not exceed ten minutes in duration. Groups of four to six flash drama plays are popular with school, university and community drama companies since they offer a wide variety of roles and situations in a single performance. There are no set rules for flash plays but the typical play has certain characteristics, such as: Consisting of one act; Utilising one to three characters; Simple, if any, set design)
found: The art of the one-act, 2007:section 1 (Ten-minute one-act plays) section 2 (Longer one-act plays)
