 
Each year, Theatre UAB produces a festival including at least eight intriguing and diverse plays, all written, directed, and performed by UAB students and faculty. These plays are all performed each night of our annual Festival of Ten-Minute Plays (or TMPs, as we sometimes call them). The student writers are members of the Theatre Department's scriptwriting classes. They've learned that writing these ultra-short plays is harder than it might seem. The best TMPs are not simply skits or scenes -- they are entire short plays, demanding each playwright to focus with extreme precision on the story they want to tell. There's no time for a lot of character development, and there's never a lot of scenic spectacle. The story and the performances come forward in ways that audiences don't usually get to see. And for the audience, each Festival means an evening of fresh, vibrant drama and comedy, served up like a banquet with many dishes to sample and savor. For more information about the Festival -- such as how to join the group that writes these scripts -- contact Lee Shackleford at (205) 975-8755 or by email at leeshack@uab.edu.
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