This collection of contemporary scenes provides the student actor, as well as professional and untrained performers, with material from some of the best plays ever written. Each selection contains critical information on characters, setting, and background to give a clear sense of what the play is about. Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors accommodates a wide variety of acting styles, from naturalistic to poetic to highly stylized, spanning a range of ages and a variety of locales, and incorporating excerpts of various lengths. Includes scenes from plays by · Woody Allen · Maxwell Anderson…mehr
This collection of contemporary scenes provides the student actor, as well as professional and untrained performers, with material from some of the best plays ever written. Each selection contains critical information on characters, setting, and background to give a clear sense of what the play is about. Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors accommodates a wide variety of acting styles, from naturalistic to poetic to highly stylized, spanning a range of ages and a variety of locales, and incorporating excerpts of various lengths. Includes scenes from plays by · Woody Allen · Maxwell Anderson · Jean Anouilh · Simon Gray · John Guare · Lillian Hellman · Albert Innaurato · David Mamet · Mark Medoff · Arthur Miller · Miguel Pinero · David Rabe · Sam Shepard · Tennessee Williams · And many more!
Having taught acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and at The Actors Studio, Michael Schulman now teaches at his own workshop in New York City. He has also written and directed a number of plays for Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre. He is director of The British-American Acting Academy, a school with braches in New York and London, dedicated to the synthesis of the best of British and American acting techniques. He is also chairman of the theatre department of The Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. In addition to his theatrical career, he is a clinical and research psychologist who has held assistant professorship at Fordham and Rutgers universities. His PhD is from the City University of New York. Eva Mekler is both a playwright and a former actress who has performed on and off Broadway. Trained in psychology, with a master’s degree from New York University, she divides her time between her work as a clinician and writing. She is also the editor of The New Generation of Acting Teachers.
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Acknowledgments 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
Acknowledgments 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
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