Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
by Liz Duffy Adams, Janet Allard, Yuri Baranovsky, 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, 25-40 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Half an hour before his daughter's wedding, Bert puts his foot down about his wardrobe: he wants to wear a lurid pair of golf pants. Will his long-suffering family change his mind? Brutally funny, Bert's Golf Pants is a humorous peek under the lid of the family pressure cooker.
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Drama
Short, 20-30 minutes
2 females, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
One morning over breakfast, a mother and father watch their daughter grow up -- from birth to adulthood.
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Comedy
Short, 10-20 minutes
1 either (1-4 actors possible: 0-4 females, 0-4 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A thin man on a bare stage picks up a phone, desperate for help from the Good Samaritan Life Line. Little does he know that he is about to enter Voice Mail Hell.
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Drama
Short, 20-35 minutes
4 females, 4 males, 1 either
(9-11 actors possible: 3-8 females, 4-8 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In a dark classroom, eight students sit in an "official lockdown," not knowing if it's just a drill or an actual emergency. When a hysterical younger girl bolts from the room and the teacher follows, the remaining students are left alone to decide if it's safer to stay or run.
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Comedy
Short, 30-55 minutes
2 females, 2 males, 3 either (4-7 actors possible)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
John and Jane are having relationship troubles: she's always lecturing him about the way he eats bananas, and he hogs the tire swing. Life at the zoo becomes even more tense with the arrival of Sarah, a sexy young gorilla with a scent that drives John wild. Monkey Do is a comedy about love, betrayal, very human relationships...oh, and bananas.
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Comedy/Satire with music
Short, 20-45 minutes
20 either (10-30 actors possible: 0-30 females, 0-30 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Reflex Action is a fast-paced, self-reflexive send-up of theatrical conventions, traditions, and techniques, with a flexible cast size and composition. The plot concerns two characters, Itchy and Knee, who discuss the mystery of a place called Woodpecker Plateau. As they await the entrance of their dire arch-nemesis, Professor Unfrenabulous, they must endure choral drama, tableau, body-bag dream sequences, a nineteenth-century operetta, stichomythia, monologues, pauses, Shakespeare, Beckett, Pinter, and Enya.
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Comedy
Short, 25-40 minutes
5 females, 3 males, 5 either (13 actors possible: 5-10 females, 3-8 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Five very different students audition for parts in their school's production of Othello. Each student's expectations and fears are reflected by changes in the audition panel of their drama teachers, who transform from hippies, to demons, to an alien hive-mind, to an interpretive dance troupe. Stand Centre Stage and Bark! is a fast-paced, comical look at the serious business of high school auditions.
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