The Chicago One-Minute Play Festival May 15, 2011

100 one-minute plays by 50 or so established and emerging playwrights will be commissioned for the two-night only event. A One-Minute Play is a form of theatre that looks at the ten-minute play structure and distills it down to the most immediate story-telling event or core emotional content. The evening promises to be as quick as it is epic in its scope. The One-Minute Play Festival was created in New York in 2007 by Dominic D'Andrea to promote the spirit of radical inclusion for writers of different age, gender, race, culture and point of career. The One-Minute play challenges the playwrights to expertly craft a theatrical moment. It requires a new sensibility to work in this deceptively small form.