In the past decade, the annual Ten Minute Play Festival has gone from a classroom project to one of the more popular presentations on the HSU production calendar. This year—the 11th—there are more plays than ever: 10 instead of the usual eight.

“Every year is different,” said Margaret Thomas Kelso, HSU professor in the Theatre, Film and Dance department and coordinator of the festival since she began it in 1998. “This year the emphasis is comedy, but different kinds of comedies, including some that incorporate drama.”

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