Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors

Preface

How to Approach a Scene

Part I: Scenes for One Man and One Woman

Lovers and Other Strangers by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Two for the Seesaw by William Gibson

Gemini by Albert Innaurato

I Never Sang for My Father by Robert Anderson

Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Owl and the Pussycat by Bill Manhoff

Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade

Kingdom of Earth by Tennessee Williams

Thieves by Herb Gardner

Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray

Golden Boy by Clifford Odets

The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler

A Cry of Players by William Gibson

Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Inge

The Tenth Man by Paddy Chayefsky

When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? by Mark Medoff

27 Wagons Full of Cotton by Tennessee Williams

Hello Out There by William Saroyan

The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare

The Sea Horse by Edward J. Moore

Serenading Louie by Lanford Wilson

The Trip Back Down by John Bishop

Moony's Kid Don't Cry by Tennessee Williams

6 RMS RIV VU by Bob Randall

Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Lionel Abel

The Goodbye People by Herb Gardner

You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running by Robert Anderson

Days of Wine and Roses by J. P. Miller

Did You Ever Go to P.S. 43? by Michael Schulman

The Only Game in Town by Frank D. Gilroy

The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy

At Home by Conrad Bromberg

The Tiger by Murray Schisgal

Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer by Jason Miller

Part Two: Scenes for Two Women

In the Boom Boom Room by David Rabe

Hello from Bertha by Tennessee Williams

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus

Antigone by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Lewis Galantiere

The Children's Hour by Lilian Hellman

Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard

Moonchildren by Michael Weller

Father's Day by Oliver Hailey

The Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstermaker by William Snyder

The Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Stuart Gilbert

Ladies at the Alamo by Paul Zindel

The Girl on the Via Flaminia by Alfred Hayes

The Gingham Dog by Lanford Wilson

Patio/Porch by Jack Heifner

And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little by Paul Zindel

Part Three: Scenes for Two Men

American Buffalo by David Mamet

A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Equus by Peter Shaffer

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel by David Rabe

Play It Again, Sam by Woody Allen

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Butley by Simon Gray

A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman

Short Eyes by Miguel Piñero

Luv by Murray Schisgal

A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner

Becket (or The Honour of God) by Jean Anouilh, translated by Lucienne Hill

Streamers by David Rabe

Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? by Don Petersen

A Hatful of Rain by Michael V. Gazzo

The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

The Wager by Mark Medoff

Hogan's Goat by William Alfred

Knock Knock by Jules Feiffer

Count Dracula by Ted Tiller

The Creation of the World and Other Business by Arthur Miller

Family Business by Dick Goldberg

The Private Ear by Peter Shaffer

Deathtrap by Ira Levin

Index