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The Unsaddest Theatre Ten Minute Play Festival Book includes Bath Time is Fun Time

The Unsaddest Theatre ten Minute Play Festival

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"Grumble Soup and Other Stories" is now available for Kindle.


The official site for award winning screenwriter and playwright Arthur M. Jolly.


Here, you can learn all about Arthur, download free monologues for auditions and classes, purchase playscripts, and get all the info on past productions, screenplays and upcoming events. Welcome!


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Latest News

Posted May 2012

THIS JUST IN!
TRASH will be at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference.

Upcoming productions

Bailing Out will be at the Next Act Theatre courtesy of the Pink Banana Theatre Company in Milwaukee, WI, June 1-9th, 2012, at the Next Act Theatre space, 255 S. Water St., Milwaukee.

Bailing Out

Thicker than Water will be at the Howard Conn Fine Arts Center courtesy of the Eat Street Player's Fresh Bites Festival in Minneapolis, June 1-10th, 2012. More details to follow!

Fresh Bites

A new one minute play will be at the Gi60: The International One Minute Play Festival now in its eighth year, (and the fourth year running with a play by Arthur M. Jolly) at the New Workshop Theater, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, on Friday June 8 at 8:00 pm, and Saturday June 9 at 8:00 pm.

Gone in 60 Seconds

I'll be back at PRT for a fourth time! The Secret of Jarlsberg will be performed as part of the Summer Shorts Festival by the Playwright's Round Table, July 27-August 5th, 2012 at the John & Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center in Orlando, Florida.

Summer Shorts

TRASH will have a staged reading by the Ritual Theatre Company in New York City, August 2012. More details to follow!

Ritual Theatre Company

One minute plays on video!

GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS - the one minute play festival - just posted this year's entry PARENT TEACHER.

This year's GI60 entry Parent Teacher is viewable on YouTube.

And here's the 2010 and 2009 entries, NOT EXPECTING THAT and HAVE YOU SEEN MY...