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Scene-Speare!: Shakespearean Scenes for Student Actors

Scene-Speare!: Shakespearean Scenes for Student Actors

edited by Lindsay Price

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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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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