Ten Minute Play Festival

This is “sort of a mini Fringe,” according to the organizational brains behind this endeavor, although this particular festival does bear the modest touch of a curator. Hundreds of scripts for ten-minute plays, mostly by local writers, were submitted to the Bedlam company. They plucked the finest of the bunch—which, in most cases, meant the funniest—assigning them a director and cast of Bedlam regulars as well as non-actors from the streets of Cedar-Riverside. The resulting program of sixteen bite-sized playlets leans heavily upon stilt-walkers and other lo-fi antics that are the signature of Bedlam’s punk-rock gypsy aesthetic. 514 1/2 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-341-1038; www.bedlamtheatre.org