The actor's scenebook
Subtitle: scenes and monologues from contemporary plays
By: edited by Michael Schulman and Eva Mekler
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780553263664
Subjects: Drama; Acting
Other titles: Actor's scene book
Description: Here is wonderful, up-to-date material for scene study, selected from the best plays from recent theater seasons. More than 20 monologues for both men and women, carefully chosen to display the widest range of dramatic ability, are essential for auditioning actors. A large selection of parts for woman provide exciting opportunities to sharpen acting skills in roles that brought accolades from New York's toughest critics. More than 80 scenes in all, many previously unpublished, allow every actor, professional, amateur or student, to choose from either smart, sassy, often outrageous comedy or deeply moving drama--a unique, balanced collection of the most successful contemporary plays. 84 fully playable scenes with story notes. Monologues from the best new plays--including Agnes of God, Sly Fox, Key Exchange and Nuts. The best contemporary selection of scenes for women--more than 50 in all. Schulman and Mekler provide 78 new, fully playable scenes with story notes, including more monologues for men and women from today's best new plays. A diverse selection of scenes and characters to challenge the full range of readers' talents as actors.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Scenes for one man and one woman: Barefoot in the park / Neil Simon. Talley's folley / Lanford Wilson. California suite / Neil Simon. Key exchange / Kevin Wade. The prisoner of second avenue / Neil Simon. Romantic comedy / Bernard Slade. The dresser / Ronald Harwood. Whose life is it anyway? / Brian Clark. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Edward Albee. The woolgatherer / William Mastrosimone. Betrayal / Harold Pinter. Vieux Carré / Tennessee Williams. Bedroom farce / Alan Ayckbourn. Table settings / James Lapine. The collector / David Parker. Duet for one / Tom Kempinski. Hopscotch / Israel Horovitz. The American clock / Arthur Miller. Modigliani / Dennis McIntyre. Anne of the thousand days / Maxwell Anderson. Awake and sing! / Clifford Odets. Caligula / Albert Camus.Waiting for lefty / Clifford Odets. Jimmy Shine / Murray Schisgal. The runner stumbles / Milan Stitt. Gigi / Anita Loos. Ondine / Jean Giraudoux.; title: Come back, little Sheba / William Inge. Innocent thoughts, harmless intentions / John Heuer; title: Scenes for two women: Agnes of god / John Pielmeier. Crimes of the heart / Beth Henley. The gingerbread lady / Neil Simon. Uncommon women and others / Wendy Wasserstein. On golden pond / Ernest Thompson. Album / David Rimmer. A coupla white chicks sitting around talking / John Ford Noonan. Lunch hour / Jean Kerr. Table manners (from the Norman conquests) / Alan Ayckbourn. The great nebula in Orion / Lanford Wilson. A delicate balance / Edward Albee. Laundry and bourbon / James McLure. Once a Catholic / Mary O'Malley. My sister Eileen / Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Everything in the garden / Edward Albee. Everybody loves Opal / John Patrick. My cup ranneth over / Robert Patrick. The faculty lounge / Michael Schulman. Teach me how to cry / Patricia Joudry; title: Scenes for two men: Chapter two / Neil Simon. True west / Sam Shepard. Mass appeal / Bill C. Davis. Say goodnight, Gracie / Ralph Pape. Da / Hugh Leonard. Geography of a horse dreamer / Sam Shepard. G. R. Point / David Berry. Loose ends / Michael Weller. Lone star / James McLure. Scapino! / Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale. Galileo / Bertolt Brecht. Mr. Roberts / Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan. Luther / John Osborne. Teahouse of the August moon / John Patrick. The Andersonville trial / Saul Levitt; title: Scene for three characters (and a narrator): The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby / David Edgar (from the novel by Charles Dickens); title: Monologues for women: A lovely Sunday for creve coeur / Tennessee Williams. Agnes of god / John Pielmeier. The west side waltz / Ernest Thompson. Nuts / Tom Topor. Death comes to us all, Mary Agnes / Christopher Durang. Stops along the way / Jeffrey Sweet. A sea of white horses / Peter Dee. The faculty lounge / Michael Schulman.; title: It's been wonderful / John Patrick. Love is a time of day / John Patrick. Waiting for the parade / John Murrell; title: Monologues for men: Sly fox / Larry Gelbart. Key exchange / Kevin Wade. Indians / Arthur Kopit. Lone star / James McLure. Still life / Emily Mann. Romantic comedy / Bernard Slade. The faculty lounge / Michael Schulman. Fathers and sons / Thomas Babe. Teach me how to cry / Patricia Joudry. A prayer for my daughter / Thomas Babe.