Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays : 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today's Hottest Playwrights

by Lane, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780140104875
• ISBN10: 0140104879
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Today's most exciting work for the stage is emerging far from Broadway's "mainstream," at Off and Off-off Broadway theaters, at regional companies around the country, and from abroad. Here is an up-to-the-minute collection of scenes-ideally suited for both classroom and audition use-from the best dramatists now being produced.

Table of Contents

SCENES FOR ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN
Am I Blue	3	(8)
Beth Henley
The Art of Dining	11	(6)
Tina Howe
Asian Shade	17	(6)
Larry Ketron
Betrayal	23	(4)
Harold Pinter
Beyond Therapy	27	(6)
Christopher Durang
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea	33	(12)
John Patrick Shanley
A Different Moon	45	(8)
Ara Watson
Domino Courts	53	(3)
William Hauptman
the dreamer examines his pillow	56	(13)
John Patrick Shanley
Edmond	69	(6)
David Mamet
Entertaining Mr. Sloane	75	(5)
Joe Orton
FOB	80	(6)
David Henry Hwang
Getting Out	86	(4)
Marsha Norman
Hello and Goodbye	90	(5)
Athol Fugard
Huryburly	95	(9)
David Rabe
Joe Turner's Come and Gone	104	(5)
August Wilson
A Kind of Alaska	109	(8)
Harold Pinter
Landscape of the Body	117	(4)
John Guare
Life and Limb	121	(4)
Keith Reddin
Mojo	125	(10)
Alice Childress
Open Admissions	135	(7)
Shirley Lauro
Out of Gas on Lovers Leap	142	(9)
Mark St. Germain
Progress	151	(4)
Doug Lucie
Quartermaine's Terms	155	(5)
Simon Gray
Reckless	160	(5)
Craig Lucas
The Red Coat	165	(5)
John Patrick Shanley
Stops Along the Way	170	(7)
Jeffrey Sweet
Strange Snow	177	(6)
Steve Metcalfe
A Taste of Honey	183	(4)
Shelagh Delaney
Vanishing Act	187	(5)
Richard Greenberg
A Weekend Near Madison	192	(5)
Kathleen Tolan
What the Butler Saw	197	(4)
Joe Orton
The Wrong Man	201	(6)
Laura Harrington
SCENES FOR TWO WOMEN
Between Daylight and Boonville	207	(4)
Matt Williams
Blue Christmas	211	(6)
Eric Lane
Elm Circle	217	(5)
Mick Casale
Final Placement	222	(5)
Ara Watson
Footfalls	227	(6)
Samuel Beckett
Graceland	233	(9)
Ellen Byron
Homesteaders	242	(5)
Nina Shengold
Hothouse	247	(7)
Megan Terry
In the Boom Boom Room	254	(6)
David Rabe
Laundry and Bourbon	260	(9)
James McLure
Lydie Breeze	269	(5)
John Guare
The Mound Builders	274	(5)
Lanford Wilson
Sarita	279	(3)
Maria Irene Fornes
Savage in Limbo	282	(7)
John Patrick Shanley
A Taste of Honey	289	(6)
Shelagh Delaney
Top Girls	295	(10)
Caryl Churchill
Waiting for the Parade	305	(6)
John Murrell
SCENES FOR TWO MEN
The Blood Knot	311	(10)
Athol Fugard
The Colored Museum	321	(4)
George C. Wolfe
The Dance and the Railroad	325	(8)
David Henry Hwang
Father Dreams	333	(8)
Mary Gallagher
Fences	341	(5)
August Wilson
Highest Standard of Living	346	(4)
Keith Reddin
The House of Ramon Iglesia	350	(4)
Jose Rivera
How I Got That Story	354	(4)
Amlin Gray
A Lie of the Mind	358	(6)
Sam Shepard
The Mound Builders	364	(5)
Lanford Wilson
The Nerd	369	(7)
Larry Shue
The Normal Heart	376	(6)
Larry Kramer
Not About Heroes	382	(9)
Stephen MacDonald
A Prayer for My Daughter	391	(5)
Thomas Babe
Principia Scriptoriae	396	(4)
Richard Nelson
Ties	400	(6)
Jeffrey Sweet
Victoria Station	406	(7)
Harold Pinter
Vivien	413	(4)
Percy Granger
What's Wrong with This Picture?	417
Donald Margulies