Scene-Speare!: Shakespearean Scenes for Student Actors

Scene-Speare! offers a selection of age-appropriate scenes by Shakespeare. Each one has been hand-picked for the student actor.

The scenes come with acting tips, background information, character notes, and vocabulary assistance.

Includes selections for two men, two women, one man and one woman, and group scenes.

Comedy Drama Shakespeare

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

Set

Simple set

Length

127 pages

Free Excerpt

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Performance Royalty Fees

Royalty fees apply to all performances whether or not admission is charged. Any performance in front of an audience (e.g. an invited dress rehearsal) is considered a performance for royalty purposes.

Exemption details for scenes and monologues for competition.

Characters in this play are currently identified as male or female. Directors are welcome to assign any gender (binary or non-binary) to any character and modify pronouns accordingly.

Two Women

Julia and Lucetta ................................. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Olivia and Viola .................................. Twelfth Night

Juliet and Nurse .................................. Romeo and Juliet

Rosalind and Celia .............................. As You Like It

Juliet and Nurse .................................. Romeo and Juliet

Julia and Silvia .................................... The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Adriana and Luciana ........................... The Comedy of Errors

Two Men

Antipholus and Dromio........................ The Comedy of Errors

Arthur and Hubert ............................... King John

Benvolio and Romeo............................ Romeo and Juliet

First and Second Murderer................... Richard III

Falstaff and Prince Henry ..................... Henry IV Part One

Dromio and Antipholus........................ The Comedy of Errors

Claudio and Benedick ......................... Much Ado About Nothing

One Woman and One Man

Cloten and Imogen ............................. Cymbeline

Romeo and Nurse ............................... Romeo and Juliet

Paulina and Leontes ............................ The Winter’s Tale

Orsino and Viola................................. Twelfth Night

Albany and Goneril ............................. King Lear

Beatrice and Benedick ......................... Much Ado About Nothing

Marina and Leonine ............................ Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Suffolk and Margaret........................... Henry VI Part One

Demetrius and Hermia ........................ A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Petruchio and Katherine....................... The Taming of the Shrew

Phebe and Silvius ................................ As You Like It

Luciana and Antipholus ....................... The Comedy of Errors

Regan and Oswald.............................. King Lear

Group Scenes

Olivia, Maria, Malvolio ........................ Twelfth Night

Iago, Desdemona, Emilia..................... Othello

Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick ............. Much Ado About Nothing

Hero, Beatrice, Ursula ......................... Much Ado About Nothing

Host, Julia, Proteus, Silvia .................... The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Princess, Rosaline, Katharine, Maria ..... Love’s Labour’s Lost

Helena, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia .. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Charmian, Iras, Alexas, Soothsayer ...... Antony and Cleopatra

Diana, Mariana, Widow, Helena.......... All’s Well That Ends Well

First & Second Murderers, Clarence...... Richard III

Oliver, Celia, Rosalind......................... As You Like It

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