The Collected Plays of Eric Samuelsen • Volume 7 • 16 Ten-minute and 6 Other Short Plays

INTRODUCTION by Matthew Ivan Bennett, Resident Playwright at Plan-B Theatre Company

• Behind the Blue Door – 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2007
• Blind Date – 10 minute play about a really different blind date – Covey Center for The Arts, Provo, Utah, 2012
• Blood Pudding – 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2006
• Burning Desire – 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2008
• The Butcher, The Beggar and the Bedtime-Buddy – 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2005 (Later became the full length, “Miasma” [see Volume 3])
• Cannibal Bondage Fiasco — 10 minute play (unproduced)
  
• Cassandra – Produced at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, 2018
• Control-Alt-Delete — 10 minute play – Premiered at Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2011 in Salt Lake City.
• CoughLaugh (experimental) Premiered by BYU in 1998 and again in 2010
• Dreamers — 10 minute play at The Rose Exposed in 2018
• FIVE — 10 minute play – Premiered as a Plan-B Theatre/Theatre Arts Conservatory co-production at the STUDENT SLAM 2011
• Fingerprint Smile — 10 minute play – Premiered as a Plan-B Theatre/Theatre Arts Conservatory STUDENT SLAM, Salt Lake City, 2012
• Foursquare — 10 minute play  – Premiered as a Plan-B Theatre/Theatre Arts Conservatory STUDENT SLAM
• Gaming The DMV — 10 minute play – Premiered at Plan-B Theatre’s ninth annual SLAM 2012.
• Perfect Circle – 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2009
• Spoiled Cheese — 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company as part of their SLAM 2005
• Kiss (stand alone version) (originally from the film version of PECULIARITIES)
• NCMO (Non-committal making out) (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
• Pizza and a Movie (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
• Tahoe (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
• Temps (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
• Last Chance — 20 minutes of Seniors and relationships

Eric Samuelsen’s playwrighting career has spanned 40 years and produced a body of work almost unparalleled in modern theatre. More than 80 plays, short plays, including a musical or two, and an opera libretto.

He has been produced across the nation. His work remains in your heart and mind long after the lights go down or the book closes.

Eric’s body of work is deserving of attention. He had a knack, an insight, a talent for capturing the essence of a character in dialog. His plays are compelling, thought-provoking. After you have participated in an Eric Samuelsen play, you know that you have been touched, changed, enlivened, taught, entertained — that you, somehow, will no longer be the incomplete person you were, but are moving steadily through further exposure, towards becoming that whole and more complete person that somehow you were intended to be.

This is accomplished whether you have laughed heartily, or cried drippingly, or have had your heart enlarged, like the grinch you didn’t know you were.

BOOK DETAILS:

• ISBN: TBD
• Interior & paper type: Black & white interior with cream paper
• Paperback cover finish: Glossy
• Trim Size: 8.5 X 11 in
• Page Count: 220
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