The Best Stage Scenes for Women from the 1980's / Edition 1

by Jocelyn A. Beard, Kristin Graham

Overview

In this volume, featuring 24 scenes for one woman and one man and 21 scenes for two women, actresses will find a diverse assortment of dramatic scenes from talented playwrights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780962272271
Publisher:	Smith & Kraus, Inc.
Publication date:	10/28/1991
Series:	Scene Anthologies Series
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.13(w) x 7.82(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Playwright/Editor JOCELYN A. BEARD, a veteran of NYU's film school and the Yale School of Drama, has edited almost forty monologue books for Smith and Kraus. Her Screenplay, Igor and the Lunatics, was made into a feature film and subsequently listed in Heavy Metal magazine as "One of the 10 Sleaziest Movies Ever Made!" Notwithstanding, Jocelyn lives in an old haunted house in the Hudson River Valley with her husband, Kevin Kitowski, their beautiful daughter, Blythe, and lots of dogs.

Table of Contents

24 great audition scenes for 1 woman and 1 man, and 21 scenes for 2 women from the 1980's.
The pieces in the volume include selections from:
When We Were Women by Sharman MacDonald
The Undoing by William Mastrosimone
Sally And Marsha by Sybille Pearson
Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas
The Pink Studio by Jane Anderson
Henceforward by Alan Ayckbourn
Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer
La Chunga by Mario Vargas Llosa

Editorial Reviews

It is hard to imagine any actor or acting student who would not benefit greatly from these titles which are enlightening a great pleasure to read and filled with lines that literally jump off the page. An outstanding group of books, most highly recommended.

The Coast Book Review