34 Scenes to Challenge & Excite Your Acting StudentsIntroducing Contemporary Scenes for Young Actors, a new eBook featuring 34 high-quality, instantly involving scenes for actors aged 8-16 and for the teachers, directors and acting coaches who work with them.Written by award-winning NYC playwright Douglas M. Parker, this incredible collection of high-quality scenes uses only accessible, contemporary language and situations and offers your young actors a broad range of circumstances and emotions to work with. Ideal for kids and teens of today.Scroll down below to preview 3 FREE scenes! Scenes with SubstanceIf you work with young actors, you’ve experienced the difficulty of trying to find quality material for them to work with in class.You want something that will excite your students, while challenging them with unique, accessible and authentic characters with real emotions.Scene work is crucial to developing young actors because it gives them the chance to work on dialogue, character and relationships in a focused, intimate setting.Unfortunately, finding quality scenes that don’t “write down” to kids can be a challenge. Most scene books available to kids and teens are either anthologies, in which scenes are taken from older plays, lack context and use outdated language, or they’re filled with unappealing original scenes that offer little more than cliche situations and unrealistic dialogue.Contemporary Scenes for Young Actors is packed with 34 rewarding, relevant scenes guaranteed to electrify your actors, your audience, and you!With this eBook you’ll receive.

• 2 Person Dialogue Scenes

2 Person Dialogue Scenes

Re: Looking for a 2 person scene #12 Posted: 3/4/05 at 2:26am There's a wonderful show called 'The Children's Hour' that is about two school teachers that are best friends and have been accused of.

A note from playwright Douglas M. ParkerScenes are the most basic building block of any theatrical work that has a plot. And although not all scenes involve two or more actors, most scenes do. At Beat by Beat we’re passionate about raising the bar on the quality of resources that are available for young actorsand you’ll find this eBook to be no exception. Over 55,000 people a month visit the Beat by Beat website, discovering tools and resources which have brought joy to teachers and inspiration to young actors in over 60 countries.You have our personal guarantee that if you aren’t completely satisfied, if you don’t love this scene book and use it semester after semester, call or email us within 30 days and we’ll refund every penny immediately.

You've got to work up a classical two-person scene for audition, performance, or practice. Poring through Shakespeare's plays to locate material that's workable, accessible, and compatible with your needs would take days if not weeks. Fortunately Douglas Newell presents a compact, complete alternative in Shakespeare for Two.Following the same format as his successful and essential Shakespeare for One, Newell has dug out important and well-known dialogues as well as buried treasures, presenting an unprecedented array of Shakespearean scenes. In addition, Shakespeare for Two gives you the context vital to understanding and playing each scene, including carefully crafted plot and scene summaries, a guide to pronunciation, definitions of obscure words no longer in common usage, and tools to help locate the right scene for your purposes.Shakespeare For Two is the invaluable, comprehensive resource that actors contemplating Shakespearean scene work can not afford to be without. Arguably the greatest English-language playwright, William Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and is known as the 'Bard of Avon.' Under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous narrative poems and short verses. Equally accomplished in histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare's most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and As You Like It.Like many of his contemporaries, including Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare began his career on the stage, eventually rising to become part-owner of Lord Chamberlain's Men, a popular dramatic company of his day, and of the storied Globe Theatre in London.Extremely popular in his lifetime, Shakespeare's works continue to resonate more than three hundred years after his death.

His plays are performed more often than any other playwright's, have been translated into every major language in the world, and are studied widely by scholars and students.Among many other things, Douglas Newell has acted professionally on stage, film, and television. While earning an M.F.A. In Acting from U.C.L.A., he couldn't help but notice the need for a more comprehensive and actor-friendly collection of classical monologues. Enter, Shakespeare for One.