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$14.95 per book
Looking for the perfect monologue? Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens is here to help. From hilarious comedy to cutting-edge drama and everything in between, an exciting selection of monologues is at your fingertips. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. From classwork to competitions to auditions, this book has you covered!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
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| "This is an excellent monologue book for middle and high school students with applications for competition as well as use in drama, speech, or English classes." |
| --Terrilyn Fleming, The Midwest Book Review |
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Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
by Liz Duffy Adams, Janet Allard, Yuri Baranovsky, Courtney Baron, et al.
Edited by Jason Pizzarello
With "Tips for Student Actors" by director Jon Jory |
 
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$14.95 per book
Looking for the perfect scene? Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens is just what you need. From hilarious comedy to cutting-edge drama, this collection offers 40 exciting 2-person scenes with plenty of fascinating characters for young actors. Unlike other scene books, the source of every scene is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. From classwork to competitions to auditions, this book has you covered!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
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| "The acting bug doesn't care what age you are. Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens is a collection of simple yet fun scenes aimed at younger teen actors who want to embrace drama as a hobby or even a potential career. Designed for two actors with themes and times easily doable for any would be teen thespian, Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens is a resource no drama teacher should miss." |
| --The Midwest Book Review |
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Comedy
Short, 32-34 minutes
10 females, 9 males, 15 either
(21-34 actors possible: 8-28 females, 6-28 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Welcome to the Advanced Placement Theatre examination. To demonstrate your knowledge of theater history, you will adapt three classic styles (Bunruku, Greek Theater, and Theater of the Absurd) into short plays dealing with the problems of the modern adolescent. You have thirty minutes to finish. Your time begins...now.
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Drama
Short, 32-34 minutes
3 females, 3 males, 12 either
(13-32 actors possible: 2-16 females, 2-16 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
After losing her entire family in a fatal tornado, Pam, a college sophomore, must embark on an unimaginable journey as she copes with her loss. To separate herself from her grief, she transfers schools and isolates herself from her fellow students, but these steps do not lessen her sadness and guilt over their deaths. Not until a fellow classmate makes an attempt at conciliation does Pam finally begin to realize that healing doesn't have to be a solitary endeavor. A moving exploration of the difficulty of continuing to live in the wake of great tragedy.
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Drama
Short, 30-35 minutes
6 females, 5 males, 6 either
(11-17 actors possible: 5-12 females, 5-12 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In the near future, an American soldier sits in a combat zone, trapped by a land mine. As he waits to see what will happen to him, scenes from his past, present, and future unfold around him.
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| "An extraordinary theatrical event!" |
| --Del Austin, Florida Thespians |
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Dark comedy
Short, 30-35 minutes
6 females, 6 males, 6 either
(9-20 actors possible: 3-15 females, 3-12 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
And now it's time for The Cards of Fate, the hit game show where contestants win fabulous prizes, and control the destinies of unsuspecting innocents. Fate is kind and the prize is yours when you get a question right. But get a question wrong, and fate will deal a crushing blow to some poor, blameless soul -- live on camera! It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt, or the ratings slip too low...
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Drama
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
7 females, 9 males, 9 either
(20-36 actors possible: 8-21 females, 6-20 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
A lean, entertaining, and faithful adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
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Comedy
Short, 45-60 minutes
5 females, 4 males, 15 either
(12-29 actors possible: 3-24 females, 3-19 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
It's the night of the royal ball and Cinderella must get to the palace if she is ever to meet her one true love, Prince Charmfull. But when she calls for her Fairy Godmother, it turns out that some bad potato salad has given all the Fairy Godmothers food poisoning. Enter Lucretia Fossilwart, scented candle saleswoman and Substitute Fairy Godmother. This will not end well. (Or will it?)
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Comedy for young audiences
Short, 45-55 minutes
3 females, 3 males, 3 either (8-9 actors possible: 1-8 females, 1-8 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Cucumber Phil is the finest cucumber farmer in all of Cucumber Valley. His life with his somewhat goofy cucumber-growing friends is perfect. Then Artichoke Annie shows up and wants to grow something different. Can Phil be friends with Annie and keep his old friends? Or will he choose to join them in driving Annie away? And what does all of this have to do with Buster the Evil Pig?
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Comedy
Short, 30-40 minutes
5 females, 6 males, 3 either
(10-14 actors possible: 0-14 females, 0-14 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
A group of actors rehearses a play within a play within a play. As the plot complications multiply, the actors begin to forget who is playing whom and who is the real director -- as opposed to the actor who is playing the director, or vice versa. Then they can't seem to remember who they really are, as opposed to the people they are playing in any of the various scripts. Then things start to get confusing...
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Comedy
Short, 30-40 minutes
11 females, 8 males, 1 either
(16-21 actors possible: 9-13 females, 7-11 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
It's the last day of creation, and time is running out. To help smooth things along, God has set up committees to design all the animals in the world. The Committee to Design Humans is having its last meeting, and things are not going so well...
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Comedy for young audiences
Full-length, 90-115 minutes
2 females, 1 male, 18 either
(11-21 actors possible: 0-21 females, 0-21 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
125 million years ago, Aloysius the dinosaur was taken from Earth to the famous Planet X Zoo. One day he escapes and returns to Earth, only to discover that dinosaurs are now extinct. Fortunately he makes friends with sisters Dakota and Raven, and winds up as the new star on PIG TV, a cable network run by the Three Pigs. But to stay on Earth, Aloysius has to avoid the Big Bad Wolf, the Space Zoo Rangers, and becoming trapped in a life he doesn't want.
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Comedy
Short, 32-35 minutes
4 females, 4 males, 3 either
(10-11 actors possible: 4-7 females, 4-7 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Nick is going off to college for the first time. The only problem is, his family is taking him -- his mother worries he will starve to death, his father forgot his tuition check, his teenage sister doesn't see why she has to go, his younger sister just wants to go to her ballet recital, and his grandmother "don't hear so good no more." It's going to be a fun day.
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Comedy
Short, 45-55 minutes
3 females, 4 males, 17 either
(12-24 actors possible: 3-22 females, 2-21 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Goldilocks is on trial for breaking and entering. Will she be found guilty and sent to prison, or will the truth come out? It's up to Judge Wallabee and some very silly jurors to decide, after hearing testimony from Goldee, the bickering Three Bears, and surprise witness Merwin the Big Bad Wolf, among others...
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Comedy for young audiences
Short, 50-60 minutes
3 females, 4 males, 13 either
(11-21 actors possible: 3-17 females, 4-18 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Did you know that penguins could fly? Billy McGee didn't, but he also didn't know they could dance, play games and tell the future either. Billy is worried because it seems he can't do anything right. No one in his family has time to play with him, and to make matters worse, he has to spend the weekend with his icky Aunt Terri. On a visit to the zoo, Billy saves some penguins from a bully. When the Penguins visit Billy to thank him, the fun really begins.
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Comedy
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
16 either (16 actors possible: 0-16 females, 0-16 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Little Red, of Little Red's Gourmet Catering and Home Delivery Service, is on a mission to deliver some goodies to Grandma's house. Unfortunately, Oswald The Big Bad Wolf, president and founder of Oswald's School for Wolves, is trying to teach his somewhat dim students how to steal baskets of goodies. Only The Power Mutants, a strange and mysterious group of mutant superheroes with rather silly powers, can help Little Red. Will the goodies get to Grandma's house on time?
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Children's comedy
Short, 55-60 minutes
2 females, 4 males, 6 either
(12-30 actors possible: 2-15 females, 4-15 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Princess Perfect -- the most beautifulest princess in the whole wide world -- must be married, as her subjects are fed up with her expensive tastes. To win her hand, a courageous knight must defeat the dreaded Two-Headed Monster of Bad Stuff, and steal the Ruby it is protecting. Three valiant souls quickly put their lives on the line: Sir Jun the Brave, Sir Prize the Wise ... and Bob the Porcupine. Does a blue-collar porcupine have a sliver of a chance against such a deadly monster? And what will happen to the Princess if he does?
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| "Comedy is easy to pick up, yet hard to master. Random Acts of Comedy is a collection of assorted plays that range in many types of humor from outright parody to twisting of classics to meta humor on the art of theatre. For anyone seeking to teach their students the art of humor, [this] is quite the excellent source for inspiration." |
| --Midwest Book Review |
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Comedy for young audiences
Full-length, 70-80 minutes
6 females, 5 males, 6 either
(8-30 actors possible: 2-16 females, 1-15 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In the zany village of Veesaldorf, a young girl named Charity is more interested in fairy tales than her daily farm chore of painting the pigs. To her delight, her dreams of adventure come true one day when she finds a poetry-loving dragon in the woods. But her new friendship is quickly threatened when the frightened villagers call for Sir Wombat to slay the dragon. Can Charity come up with a plan to save her friend and convince the village that dragons are peaceful creatures?
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Drama/Comedy
Short, 30-35 minutes
11 females, 12 males, 1 either
(4-24 actors possible: 2-12 females, 2-13 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Nick and Meg are high school sweethearts, but the night before Meg leaves for college they have a huge fight about trying a long-distance relationship. Nick comes to the train station to find Meg and see if he can fix things. While he waits for her to arrive, he imagines all of the different ways their conversation could go. The various people in the station act out what Nick is imagining as he tries to find the right words to save their relationship.
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Comedy
Short, 30-35 minutes
8 females, 3 males (9-11 actors possible: 7-10 females, 1-4 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Today is a hectic day for Annie at her sound studio, which specializes in creating radio spots. The schedule is screwed up, the mattress girls have yet to be cast, the car girl doesn't know how to sound sexy, the diarrhea ad isn't finished, and time is running out.
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