The Book of Scenes for Acting Practice provides a variety of styles, characters, and types of drama to sharpen students' acting skills. The scenes range from Sophocles and Shakespeare to O'Neill and Ionesco, and were selected for variety and ease of presentation.

Acting scenes for youth featuring clean language and family-friendly, real-life scenarios. Ideal for for stage and screen. A practical approach for training student actors that can be applied immediately in the home and classroom. Positive imagery, social relevance, and civic-mindedness are written into the scenes as subtext.

A collection of professional level short scenes.

Provides advice for mastering monologues and improving auditioning techniques, and includes acting exercises, sample scripts, lists of Internet resources, improvisation tips, and more.

A superb resource for speech contests, acting exercises, auditions, or audience entertainment. In a stage review, these short monologues can be indispensable. Warm, funny, and best of all -- real. Sixty characterisations for girls, boys or either. Any young person will relate to the topics of these scripts. And they will like them as performance material that is 'scare-free'.

Monologues for Teens is a collection of 60 original monologues on a wide variety of topics. They are designed to help teenage actors reach, stretch and stand out from the crowd. Each individual piece is gender-neutral and may be performed equally well by both male and female actors. These monologues are clean, thought-provoking, and designed to encourage positive attitudes and behaviors in our youth ¿ and audiences. They are appropriate for film, television, and theater training. Includes a foreword by Emmy Award winner Jean Carol, and a detailed introduction to monologue selection, preparation and performance by the author. Monologues for Teens also includes helpful, behind-the-scenes suggestions on actor training and audition psychology.

The scenes contained in this volume are presented exactly as written by the playwrights, with no internal deletions. The introductions to each follow the headings "Characters," "Scene," and "Time"; the playwrights' stage directions are contained in parent

Mastery of craft depends on repetition: the more opportunities student actors have to be guided through analyzing scripts, the more likely they are to develop a reliable process for making choices when the time comes to work independently. That's why Acting on the Script contains eight short plays, which can be used independently or as parts of one full-length play, giving aspiring actors the practice they need to tell the story of the play and of their characters clearly, believably, and compellingly. With each new scene, readers are given the opportunity to think through the analysis and synthesis process independently, then they are guided clearly through that process. The first section reintroduces the basic elements of acting craft. The book then lays out how these elements relate to a script in general and then more specifically – by using a short play to illustrate the basic principles. The second section focuses on specific analysis and synthesis problems using original scenes especially composed to help students develop their analysis and choice-making skills and to address individual acting issues. The plays, already tested in classes and two productions (one professional and one college), are filled with the kinds of acting problems that beginning actors often have trouble with and need to learn to solve. In addition, specific problems that actors might have with certain types of material are addressed as well.

A library of characters for study and practice. Each audition is about two minutes long.

Group Scenes for Young Actors contains 32 three to six-person scenes with themes, characters and subject matter specifically tailored to performers age 7-14. Each scene contains emotional arcs and strong endings to challenge actors and keep audiences engaged, contemporary language that doesn't talk-down to kids, and gender-neutral characters to provide ultimate flexibility. These scenes are ideal as short performance pieces and for use in the classroom. Written by award-winning NYC playwright Jessica Penzias and publsihed by Beat by Beat Press, the world's #1 resource for high-quality theatre resources for young actors.