| Timothy Mason wrote the book and lyrics for the seasonal Broadway hit, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical. His novel, The Last Synapsid, an adventure-fantasy for kids, is being published by Delacorte Press (2009). Mr. Mason was a company playwright with Circle Rep in New York City, which produced his plays Levitation, Only You, Babylon Gardens (with Timothy Hutton and Mary-Louise Parker), and The Fiery Furnace (with Julie Harris). His plays have also been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Victory Gardens, the Jungle Theatre, the Old Globe, the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, and the Guthrie Lab, among others. He is currently completing his 5-play Young Americans Cycle, commissioned and first produced by The Young Conservatory of San Francisco's A.C.T. (Mullen's Alley, Time on Fire, The Less Than Human Club, Ascension Day, and the upcoming My Life in the Silents). He has won a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, a Hollywood DramaLogue Award, a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Berilla Kerr Playwrights Award, and the National Society of Arts and Letters Award. |
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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, 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/Drama
Full-length, 85-105 minutes
10 females, 15 males (19-40 actors possible: 8-20 females, 11-20 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Not only one of the greatest American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn also ranks among literature's most powerful condemnations of racism. The story of the "no-account" boy who fakes death and flees society with Jim, the runaway slave, pits convention against the common sense of childhood, and the hypocrisy of the "pious" against the integrity of the individual. And because this is an action-packed dramatization of Mark Twain, it's also hilariously funny...
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 75-105 minutes
6 females, 8 males, 6 either (14-40 actors possible: 6-20 females, 8-20 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
One of the most beloved characters of American fiction, Tom Sawyer is a force of nature -- whether he's sneaking out of his Aunt Polly's house at night to visit the graveyard, or duping his playmates into white-washing a fence, or stealing a kiss from the ravishing Becky Thatcher, or taking a stand against the murderous Injun Joe. Tom's small-town adventures on the banks of the Mississippi are the magical essence of childhood, a joyous leap into the great river of time and memory.
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Adventure
Full-length, 80-100 minutes
8 females, 11 males, 3 either (14-40 actors possible: 3-20 females, 11-20 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Aladdin is inconsiderate toward his poor mother, rude to authority, and generally unwashed and unmannered. But the powerful Jinn of the Lamp, fiercely sought by an evil-hearted sorcerer, gives Aladdin the chance to rise above himself, to dare great things -- even to win the hand of the Princess of the realm. The classic story of a ne'er-do-well's rise from obscurity to greatness, filled with breathtaking adventure, dark magic, and the poetry of the youthful romance.
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Adventure/Romance
Full-length, 80-100 minutes
4 females, 5 males, 7 either
(10-40 actors possible: 4-20 females, 6-20 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In this mysterious, gorgeous adaptation, Beauty and her Beast exist in a shadowy world of magic and poetry, and extremes of light and dark, cold and heat, pain and joy. Beauty must leave behind her beloved father, adventure-hungry brothers, and uproariously self-absorbed sisters, entering a dark castle filled with strange mute servants obedient to their beastly master. The story tests the nature and the limits of physical beauty, as she finally looks beyond the Beast's ugliness and understands her transforming love for him.
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Drama/Comedy
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 6 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From an unlikely and hilarious friendship between a tough black messenger and a quiet Asian delivery boy (Bike Wreck by Qui Nguyen), to a very revealing wedding dance (Mr. and Mrs. by Julie Marie Myatt), to the powerful relationship between an Israel boy and a Palestinian girl (Holier Ground by Jonathan Denn), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Bike Wreck by Qui Nguyen
A Bone Close to My Brain by Dan Dietz
The Grand Design by Susan Miller
Holier Ground by Jonathan Denn
Hum of the Arctic by Sarah Hammond
Light by Jeni Mahoney
Mr. and Mrs. by Julie Marie Myatt
Pumpkin Patch by Patrick Gabridge
Reading List by Susan Miller
Sorry by Timothy Mason
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Drama
Full-length, 90-105 minutes
4 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
The unexpected arrival of a postcard plunges Davis into his vivid memories of 1968 -- a wildly turbulent year in both his high school and in the U.S. In the throes of navigating complex relationships, racial tensions, crises of sexual identity, and self-worth, Davis and his friends search for purpose in a society struggling through its own weighty issues. While school dances mark milestones in their high school careers, tensions bubbling up in the U.S. are increasingly mirrored in their lives, until an explosion seems imminent. A moving exploration of the often comical absurdities of teenage life in the midst of the heartbreaking realities of a changing world.
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Drama
Full-length, 65-75 minutes
3 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In the 1880s, Jacob Riis took a camera into the tenements and dives of New York's Lower East Side, showing the world "How the Other Half Lives" in his famous book. Born out of a haunting photograph, this play delves into the world of Mullen's Alley, and the lives of a handful of kids who are ferociously determined to grow and live in spite of the many obstacles in their way. With wit, anger, and ingenuity, these immigrant children carve out lives for themselves as they interact uneasily with the intrusion of Riis and his omnipresent camera.
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Drama
Full-length, 70-80 minutes
4 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Six undergraduates spend a summer in an isolated wilderness, studying the surrounding ecosystem under the tutelage of two graduate teaching assistants. As they learn of the five global mass extinctions that life on Earth has suffered in its history, and the sixth that may be upon us, they get to know each other and themselves. Unrequited love is in the air along with the mosquitoes. Requited love comes with its own perils. Is one of the students an imposter, a so-called eco-terrorist? Is he a hero or a con man?
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Comedy
Short, 25-30 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 6.
New York City can be an unforgiving and lonely place. But when Pat shoots Wayne, mistaking him for an intruder, the two are given an opportunity to make a connection. Although love can be found under strange circumstances, what will Pat think when she finds out the secret behind Wayne's true identity?
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Drama
Full-length, 70-80 minutes
4 females, 7 males (11-13 actors possible: 4-5 females, 6-9 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Caught in the upheaval of the American Revolutionary War, a group of young people must decide where they stand. Who will take up arms and who will pass the buck? From indentured farmers to the wealthy elite, from runaway slaves to Quaker pacifists, not one of these sons or daughters escapes the decisions that define them and young America.
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