![]() ![]() The scenes run from 2 minutes to ten minutes. If a publisher is cited, you must go through the publisher for the rights to use these scenes if there is any audience. Still photos are fine.įor uses other than class (competition, student one-acts where there is an audience, etc.), full rights must be obtained. I appreciated being contacted if you use the scenes for class - it's a smile in my day ( your school, city and state). You can sign up by telling me through my entry form. A list of new scenes will be provided with details as to genre and casting requirements. There is no spam and no follow-up emails unless I hear from you (questions, royalty rights). It ONLY comes out the first week of the month from August through May. If you would like to be alerted to when new scenes on this page and new plays for youth appear, sign up for my newsletter. It's an experiment and I've enjoyed creating this way. (Serio-comic.) They play is designed in the style of Gurney's "Love Letters." No memorization, no set, no costumes, 3 props. January 2024: The four new scenes are all 2-female scenes from new play Yours Until Niagara Falls. They are free for classroom use and drama clubs only (sorry but not to be used in festivals or student one-acts even if no admission is charged). The Glass Menagerie is full of sound cues.Below are scenes from published plays as well as short scenes that have been used in short play festivals and published in anthologies. Crucible would be excellent for sets and costumes, as would Romeo and Juliet. Think about using shows that they may already read for school. It has challenge's that need to be solved (suggested nudity and the transitions with the fig leaves). There is a PDF adaptation online in addition to versions at most of the publishing houses. The contrast of those two plays works well with my students.įor costumes, you might try The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain. ![]() I bought a class set of that play, which has scenes taking place in a house, a school, a stage, a parking lot, and a car-and breaks for scene changes will kill it. The second play we read is "Small Actors" by Stephen Gregg. There are some great research topics there. It needs a very realistic set of a kitchen farm house-or realistic elements to suggest such a place-with steps to upstairs. We read Susan Glaspell's "Trifles," which is available for download at, as it was published in 1916 and is public domain. It was in the first volume of 10-minute plays from the Actors Theater of Louisville - which is a little pricy but well worth having.īryan, I have my Theatre I students read two one-act plays near the beginning of the semester to explore the very different settings that are required for plays. The make-up is pretty straight, but there are interesting challenges in all the other areas. "Attack of the Moral Fuzzies" by Nancy Beverly is a great little 10-minute play with lots of design possibilities for a beginning student. Subject: Good scripts for Design exercises Please say WHAT area of design you suggest this for (so I don't make a fool of myself assigning set design for Our Town when you were suggesting an awesome period costume design). The main thing is to have students go through the process of designing for scripts that can be designed in multiple different ways (that way I don't get 35 box sets for Arsenic and Old Lace). My college education is coming up lacking! Short plays are better so we can read them quicker, as are free online plays (if they have cool design possibilities). I'm a bad technical theater teacher sometimes and I rarely teach design in the hurry to build the shows.Ĭan I have some suggestions on some accessible plays for brand new technical theater students that would be a blast to read and design for (and possibly includes some juicy research possibilities)? ![]()
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