Rogues' Gallery

📖 The Scoop

Nine playwrights take on the absurdity of the art world in Rogues’ Gallery, a collection of ten-minute plays framed in a rapid-fire comedy. When two hapless security guards find the gallery’s prize sculpture has been destroyed on their watch, it’s a race through the day’s security camera footage to find out what happened - and come up with a really good excuse before the artist comes back with the toughest critic in town. Each play features a different group that comes through the gallery, from employees to tourists to art thieves, and optional transition scenes can be used to thread any combination of plays together into one story. A series of hilarious mistakes just might add up to a masterpiece in Rogues’ Gallery. This collection includes the following short plays: 

Midnight Bandits by Rachel Bublitz

Fancy People Like Fondue by Maria Pretzl

Pranksy by Elissa C. Huang

The Sketch Pod by Tyler Dwiggins

Mayonnaise Mayonnaise by Patrick Greene

The Participant by Jason Pizzarello

The Art Dealer is Impressed by Carrie McCrossen

The Collector by Kathryn Funkhouser

Two Ships Passing by Ian McWethy 

(*These plays can be licensed together or separately. If you license the whole collection, you have permission to pick and choose which plays to perform.) 

Comedy

120-130 minutes,* each play is 10 minutes

6-35+ actors, flexible casting

Genre: Drama / American / General (fancy, right?)