TEEN ACTING

Doylestown Library Fall 2007

These are scenes we'll be working on in class. You may choose a scene, work on it, and bring it in or I will assign one to you. These plays are available at the library. Some (with links) are available here.

HARVEY
by Mary Chase
Act I,
scene 1
3 women,
1 man
Mrs. Chauvenet,
Elwood,
Veta,
Myrtle
Act III
2 men Elwood,
Dr. Chumley
OUR TOWN
by Thorton Wilder
Act I 2 men Dr. Gibbs,
Joe Crowell Jr
"Morning, Doc Gibbs" "No, sir"
Act I 2 women Mrs. Gibbs
Mrs. Webb
Act I 1 man,
1 woman
George,
Emily
"Can I carry your books home for you?" "something before you go home."
Act I 1 man,
1 woman
George,
Emily
"I'll have a strawberry phosphate" "I'll try to make my letters interesting."
Act I 1 man,
1 woman
George,
Emily
"Y'know, Emily, whenever I meet a farmer" "It'll only take me a minute."
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST
by Oscar Wilde
Act I 1 man,
1 woman
Jack,
Gwendolen
"Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax" "Especially when there are other people present"
Act II 2 women Gwendolen, Cecily "You are here on a short visit, I suppose" "It is obvious that our social speres have been widely different"
Act II 1 man,
1 woman
Algernon
Cecily
"I have never met any really wicked person before" "I shouldn't know what to talk to him about"
Act I 1 man,
1 woman
Lady Bracknell Jack "I feel bound to tell you that you are not on my list of eligible young men" "but it could hardly be regarded as an assured basis for a recognized position in good society"
THE CRUCIBLE
by Arthur Miller
Act I 4 women Abigal
Mary Warren
Mercy
Betty
"How is Ruth sick?" "I say shut it, Mary Warren"

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