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  • 1.  Scenes for High School Students

    Posted 01-29-2023 21:47
    Hello!

    I teach at an all-girls high school, and it's time to pick some scenes for end-of-semester scene work. I would appreciate any scene suggestions for women from plays (not scene books) that would be appropriate for teens. I am not worried about language. I want something they can really sink their teeth into.

    Thanks!

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    Jennifer Jordan
    Director of Theater & Dance
    11th Grade Class Coordinator
    Day Student Advisor
    Miss Hall's School
    413-395-7023
    She/Her/Hers


  • 2.  RE: Scenes for High School Students

    Posted 01-30-2023 08:51
    A few ones off the top of my head along with a rough synopsis:
    Extremities - a woman has captured the man who raped her and argues with her friends over what to do to him. Very intense
    As It Is in Heaven - life in an all-women's Quaker community More natural and restrained.
    Agnes of God - A nun is pregnant and claims it is immaculate. 
    Doubt - a nun investigates the actions of an over-friendly priest.

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    Ken Buswell
    Drama Teacher
    Peachtree City, GA
    http://mcintoshtheater.org/

    Theater kills ignorance
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  • 3.  RE: Scenes for High School Students

    Posted 01-30-2023 09:44
    Thank you! Just to be clear, I need two woman scenes.

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    Jennifer Jordan
    Director of Theater & Dance
    11th Grade Class Coordinator
    Day Student Advisor
    Miss Hall's School
    413-395-7023
    She/Her/Hers



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  • 4.  RE: Scenes for High School Students

    Posted 01-30-2023 10:03
    Doubt and Agnes of God would work. Not certain if Extremities and As it is in Heaven have any two person scenes. There are some good two women scenes in Silent Sky, These Shining Lives, Women of Lockerbie and Dark Road.

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    Ken Buswell
    Drama Teacher
    Peachtree City, GA
    http://mcintoshtheater.org/

    Theater kills ignorance
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  • 5.  RE: Scenes for High School Students

    Posted 01-30-2023 11:39
    Hello Jennifer,

    There is some great scene work from:
    Silent Sky
    Stop Kiss
    Necessary Targets
    Proof
    Doubt
    Rabbit Hole

    Some characters are more mature in age.

    Best,
    Rob Duval





  • 6.  RE: Scenes for High School Students

    Posted 01-30-2023 15:57
    Two all-women plays that have lots of scenes & monologues: Going To See the Elephant, and Out of Our Father's House.  Both old(er) plays. Out of Our Father's House are historical characters in conversation, and ... Elephant is four 19th century women stranded together on the prairie.

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    Robin Share
    Teacher
    CA
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  • 7.  RE: Scenes for High School Students

    Posted 01-31-2023 06:56
    Here are some plays to explore:
    Men on Boats
    Doubt
    Doll's House 2
    Pipeline
    Dance Nation
    Love/Sick
    Into the Breeches
    Space Girl
    Silent Sky
    The Taming
    The Revolutionists 


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    Kent Burnham
    Director of Theatre Arts
    Frederick Gunn School
    Washington, CT 06793
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  • 8.  RE: Scenes for High School Students

    Posted 01-31-2023 08:36
    I can't believe I forgot about one of my all-time favorite plays: The Last Nickel by Jane Shepard. A younger girl is trying to help her adult sister cope with an unknown problem. Very funny and at times, touching, harrowing and devastating. And it has a few scenes with puppets. It's great for scene work.

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    Ken Buswell
    Drama Teacher
    Peachtree City, GA
    http://mcintoshtheater.org/

    Theater kills ignorance
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  • 9.  RE: Scenes for High School Students

    Posted 02-01-2023 16:18
    These are much older plays but with good scenes for 2 women:
         Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette & Gut Bolton  (the "recognition  scene" was sold separately)
         Our Town by Thorton Wilder - Act 1
         The Women by Clare Booth Luce
         Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
         Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
         Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neil  (I think each play in the trilogy has a mother/daughter confrontation)
    And a GREAT 2 women one act:  Tell Me Another Story, Sing Me a Song by Jean Lenox Toddie

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    Marilynn Zeljeznjak
    Retired
    Past CA State Thespian Director
    Blacksburg VA
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  • 10.  RE: Scenes for High School Students

    Posted 01-31-2023 08:53
    There are some great scenes in "Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine's" by Madhuri Shekar, available on the New Play Exchange. I might have some scenes pulled from it -- message me if you'd like me to send/share.

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    Cora Turlish
    NJ
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