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Festival of 10-Minute Plays back at UAB for another wild ride
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By JESSE CHAMBERS
Lee Shackleford, far right, with students Andrew Taylor and Kara Ward-Tobin. Photos courtesy of UAB.
heatre UAB’s annual Festival of 10-Minute Plays, now in its 14th year, is an opportunity for audiences to enjoy an evening of innovative short plays written by UAB students, faculty and staff. The event usually offers a wide variety of emotion and a wild ride through every genre from drama to romance to slapstick. And audiences should find themselves moved by the work of these young playwrights, said UAB assistant professor Lee Shackleford, the event’s founder. “There aren’t going to be a lot of depictions of ho-hum everyday life, but rather passionate journeys through the hearts of people experiencing joy, pain, fear and love,” he said. Audiences can join the playwrights and actors in these passionate journeys when the Festival of 10-Minute Plays comes to the Odess Theatre at UAB March 6-10 at 7:30 p.m.