The Methuen Drama Book of Duologues for Young Actors

by Anne Harvey (Editor)

Overview

Selected by Anne Harvey, an experienced actress, director, writer and adjudicator, these scenes are suitable for performance at auditions, solo acting classes, festivals and examinations. Ranging from Renaissance to contemporary literature, the pieces are varied in content, tone and style and are equipped with an introduction setting the context.

Writers include: Edward Bond, Ken Campbell, David Crampton, Caryl Churchill, Noël Coward, Monica Dickens, Lisa Evans, Dario Fo, John Ford, David Hare, Jonathan Harvey, Lillian Hellman, Adrian Henri, Robert Holman, Moliere, Willy Russell, Diane Samuels, G B Shaw, David Storey, Frank Wedekind and many more...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413689009
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/27/2009
Series:	Audition Speeches
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Notes to the Actor	xi
	Anne Boleyn	1
	The Cuckoo Sister	5
	The Sea	10
	Skungpoomery	16
	Split Down the Middle	21
	Top Girls	27
	Easy Virtue	32
	Kate and Emma	38
	Middlemarch	44
	Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home	48
	Walking Through Seaweed	53
	The Virtuous Burglar	60
	'Tis Pity She's a Whore	65
	Alphabetical Order	71
	My Children, My Africa	77
	Warrior	82
	A Proper Little Nooryeff (from the novel by Jean Ure)	88
	Murmuring Judges	93
	The Day After the Fair (from a short story by Thomas Hardy)	99
	Beautiful Thing	104
	The Children's Hour	110
	The Wakefield Mysteries	116