Short Plays by Lee Shackleford
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PUSHED TO THE LIMIT
 A collection of six short plays, most of them first produced as part of Theatre UAB's annual Festival of Ten-Minute Plays. Each tells the tale of someone driven to the edge of endurance ...
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A Company of Players Cometh Nigh
Two friends disagree so strongly over a question of politics that they end up in a fight to the death. Written in Elizabethan English and rhyming iambic pentameter. Yes, really. read more
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How Revolutions Get Started
A couple of millionaire executives try to one-up each other while the cleaning lady and window washer listen in growing astonishment...and mounting rage. (Incidentally, I do not by any means advocate the course of action the maintenance workers take.) read more
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Into Fire
What would it be like to literally hold the fate of the world in your hands? A soldier of fortune has that experience -- and decides to back out of the plan for which his partner has already sacrificed everything... read more
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The Road
What does the future hold for you? Will you live a long and happy life, full of love and promise? Or will your life be cut off far too soon and in hideous agony? The most popular and frequently-produced of my short plays. read more
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Two Kinds of Tired
In segregation-era Alabama, an African-American woman struggles to do things white women do with ease.
A winner of the Panoply Arts Festival and a popular competition piece. read more
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Why I Love My Doctor
A hapless patient (the playwright) is shuttled from one doctor to another, each more bizarrely unhelpful than the last. Every word entirely true -- including the heartwarming ending. read more
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