This weekend’s outing, AtTENtion Span: A Festival of 10-Minute Plays, squeezes eight new works — about topics ranging from death to politics — into less than an hour and a half. So, if one really, really sucks, just step out for a smoke.
Oct. 19-20, 8 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 21, 3 p.m.
This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2006.