Duo: The Best Scenes for the 90's

by Temchin, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781557830302
• ISBN10: 1557830304
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-03-01
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corp

Summary

Over one-hundred and thirty great scenes erupt from page to stage in this addition to the Applause Acting Series. Each scene has been selected as a freestanding dramatic unit offering two actors a wide range of theatrical challenge and opportunity. Each scene is set up with a synopsis of the play, character descriptions and notes on how to propel the scene to full power outside the context of the play. DUO! offers a full spectrum of age, region, genre, character, level of difficulty, and non-traditional casting potential.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Michael Howard
Editors' Note	xii
Man/Woman Scenes (Guide to Genre/Age Range)
American Notes	1	(4)
Len Jenkin
Apocalyptic Butterflies	5	(4)
Wendy Macleod
Away	9	(3)
Michael Gow
Beirut	12	(6)
Alan Bowne
A Betrothal	18	(6)
Lanford Wilson
Beyond Your Command	24	(4)
Ralph Pape
Big Time	28	(4)
Keith Reddin
Borderline	32	(3)
John Bishop
The Boys Next Door	35	(4)
Tom Griffin
Brilliant Traces	39	(6)
Cindy Lou Johnson
Burn This	45	(4)
Lanford Wilson
The Cocktail Hour	49	(5)
A. R. Gurney
Coyote Ugly	54	(4)
Lynn Siefert
A Critic And His Wife	58	(3)
John Ford Noonan
Driving Miss Daisy	61	(4)
Alfred Uhry
Emerald City	65	(5)
David Williamson
For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls	70	(3)
Christopher Durang
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune	73	(4)
Terrence McNally
Fresh Horses	77	(5)
Larry Ketron
The Girl Next Door	82	(3)
Laurence Klavan
The Girl Next Door	85	(2)
Laurence Klavan
Going in	87	(4)
David Kranes
Handy Dandy	91	(3)
William Gibson
The Heidi Chronicles	94	(5)
Wendy Wasserstein
Hunting Cockroaches	99	(4)
Janusz Glowacki
Ice Cream	103	(3)
Caryl Churchill
In a Pig's Valise	106	(3)
Eric Overmyer
Italian American Reconciliation	109	(6)
John Patrick Shanley
June 8, 1968	115	(5)
Anna Theresa Cascio
Laughing Wild	120	(5)
Christopher Durang
Lend Me A Tenor	125	(3)
Ken Ludwig
A Lie of the Mind	128	(6)
Sam Shepard
Life Under Water	134	(3)
Richard Greenberg
Lips Together, Teeth Apart	137	(3)
Terence McNally
A Little Like Drowning	140	(4)
Anthony Minghella
The Loman Family Picnic	144	(3)
Donald Margulies
Lost	147	(4)
Robert Holman
Love is Not a Water Solution	151	(2)
Leonard Melfi
Millenium Approaches	153	(3)
Tony Kushner
Mollie Bailey's Traveling Family Circus	156	(3)
Megan Terry
Music From a Locked Room	159	(4)
John Logan
Other People's Money	163	(4)
Jerry Sterner
The Perfect Party	167	(4)
A. R. Gurney
Personals	171	(2)
David Crane
Seith Friedman
Marta Kauffman
Psycho Beach Party	173	(2)
Charles Busch
Road	175	(5)
Jim Cartwright
Shivaree	180	(5)
William Mastrosimone
Sight Unseen	185	(3)
Donald Margulies
Spoils of War	188	(7)
Michael Weller
The Talented Tenth	195	(4)
Richard Wesley
To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday	199	(4)
Michael Brady
The Value of Names	203	(4)
Jeffrey Sweet
Wrong Turn at Lungfish	207	(2)
Lowell Ganz
Garry Marshall
Scenes for Two Women
Across Oka	209	(3)
Robert Holman
Aunt Dan and Lemon	212	(4)
Wallace Shawn
Blind Date	216	(3)
Horton Foote
Breaking the Prairie Wolf Code	219	(5)
Lavonne Mueller
Candy and Shelley Go To The Desert	224	(4)
Paula Cizmar
The Early Girl	228	(4)
Caroline Kava
Emily	232	(2)
Stephen Metcalfe
Gertrude Stein and a Companion	234	(2)
Win Wells
Blanche Marvin
Ghost on Fire	236	(3)
Michael Weller
A Girl's Guide to Chaos	239	(1)
Cynthia Heimel
Greenland	240	(4)
Howard Brenton
Lettice and Lovage	244	(4)
Peter Shaffer
Loon Woman	248	(4)
Margaret Hunt
Mama Drama	252	(3)
Leslie Ayvazian
Donna Daley
Christine Farrell
Marianna Houston
Rita Nachtmann
Anne O'Sullivan
Ann Sachs
The Miss Firecracker Contest	255	(3)
Beth Henley
Mrs. Klein	258	(5)
Nicholas Wright
My Mother Said I Never Should	263	(4)
Charlotte Keatley
A Narrow Bed	267	(6)
Ellen McLaughlin
Once Removed	273	(4)
Eduardo Machado
Our Country's Good	277	(3)
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Paducah	280	(3)
Sallie Bingham
Phantasie	283	(3)
Sybille Pearson
Playing For Time	286	(3)
Arthur Miller
The Possibilities	289	(5)
Howard Barker
Rita, Sue and Bob, Too	294	(4)
Andrea Dunbar
The Road to Mecca	298	(8)
Athol Fugard
A Shayna Maidel	306	(3)
Barbara Lebow
Steel Magnolias	309	(3)
Robert Harling
Still Waters	312	(4)
Caludia Allen
The Talented Tenth	316	(3)
Richard Wesley
What Mama Don't Know	319	(2)
Jane Martin
Women of Manhattan	321	(4)
John Patrick Shanley
Scenes for Two Men
Amongst Barbarians	325	(3)
Michael Wall
Antigone in New York	328	(3)
Janusz Glowacki
Beggars in The House of Plenty	331	(4)
John Patrick Shanley
Boy's Life	335	(7)
Howard Korder
Cat's-Paw	342	(5)
William Mastrosimone
Chez Rikers	347	(5)
Charles Leipart
Club Hellfire	352	(3)
Leonard Melfi
Cuba and His Teddy Bear	355	(7)
Reinaldo Povod
The Day The Bronx Died	362	(4)
Michael Henry Brown
Death in the Pot	366	(4)
Manuel Van Loggem
Digby	370	(6)
Joseph Dougherty
Eastern Standard	376	(3)
Richard Greenberg
El Salvador	379	(3)
Rafael Lima
Eyes of the American	382	(5)
Samm-Art Williams
Goose and Tomtom	387	(4)
David Rabe
A Handful of Stars	391	(5)
Billy Roche
Haut Gout	396	(4)
Allan Havis
Hope of the Future	400	(4)
Shannon Keith Kelley
The House of Correction	404	(7)
Norman Lock
Jeffrey	411	(2)
Paul Rudnick
Killers	413	(4)
John Olive
The Lisbon Traviata	417	(6)
Terrence McNally
Living At Home	423	(6)
Anthony Giardina
M. Butterfly	429	(4)
David Henry Hang
Man Enough	433	(4)
Patty Gideon Sloan
The Medal of Honor Rag	437	(4)
Tom Cole
Meeting the Winter Bike Rider	441	(6)
Juan Nunez
Mr. Universe	447	(3)
Jim Grimsley
A Most Secret War	450	(4)
Kevin Patterson
Moving Pictures	454	(3)
Stephen Lowe
Nasty Little Secrets	457	(4)
Lanie Robertson
On The Open Road	461	(4)
Steve Tesich
Other Peoples' Money	465	(3)
Jerry Sterner
Perestroika	468	(4)
Tony Kushner
A Perfect Relationship	472	(6)
Doric Wilson
Power Failure	478	(5)
Larry Gelbart
Precious Sons	483	(6)
George Furth
Pvt. Wars	489	(4)
James McClure
Safe Sex	493	(5)
Harvey Fierstein
Saxophone Music	498	(6)
Bill Bozzone
The Speed of Darkness	504	(4)
Steve Tesich
Speed-The-Plow	508	(3)
David Mamet
A Walk in the Woods	511	(5)
Lee Blessing
Yankee Dawg You Die	516	(3)
Philip Kan Gotanda
Zero Positive	519	(6)
Harry Kondoleon
Acknowledgements	525