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  • 1.  Scenes needed

    Posted 01-30-2024 09:55
    Hello!  I am looking for a scene for three advanced female students that is not Crimes of the Heart.  Any ideas?  I also need a scene for another less advanced trio--two boys and a girl.  Anyone able to help? 

    Amy Neal Bussey
    Stuarts Draft High School
    Theatre and English Teacher
    Fine Arts Department Head
    One-Act Theatre & Forensics Coach
    Musical Director
     

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  • 2.  RE: Scenes needed

    Posted 01-30-2024 14:23

    Would you be interested in a scene with 2 females and 1 male?



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    Robin Blasberg
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  • 3.  RE: Scenes needed

    Posted 01-31-2024 07:17
    There is a three person scene in "Laundry and Bourbon." I always have the same challenge. I end up spending hours looking through new plays only to settle on the tried and true standards like "Crimes..."

    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 needed

    Posted 02-01-2024 10:55
    "On the Verge" by Eric Overmyer has quite a few scenes for that would work. It's a challenging play with terrifically dense and witty dialogue for three women. 



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  • 5.  RE: Scenes needed

    Posted 01-31-2024 08:11

    VANITIES by Jack Heifner has some powerful scenes for three females.




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  • 6.  RE: Scenes needed

    Posted 01-31-2024 10:26

    Three Tall Women by Edward Albee comes to mind.  

    The Art of Dining by Tina Howe has a comedic scene between three women sitting at a table, which makes it difficult for ITS competition, but would work for forensics.  Howe's Museum has a scene between three female friends that is hilarious.  

    Sightings, a one-act by Brad Slaight with 2M/1F.  One of the males is a fairly stereotypical bully, but the relationship between the other male and the female is tender.

     



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    CJ Breland
    Retired Theatre Arts Educator
    Asheville, NC
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  • 7.  RE: Scenes needed

    Posted 01-31-2024 14:19
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    As It is In Heaven, published by Dramatists Play Service, has a scene for three young women. The characters are Fanny, Izzy and Polly, three young Shakers in the woods by their village in 1800s Kentucky. I've attached a copy of the scene. 



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    Arlene Hutton, playwright
    Letters to Sala
    I Dream Before I Take the Stand
    Kissed the Girls & Made Them Cry
    As It Is In Heaven
    Susie Sits Shiva (EdTA commission)
    According to the Chorus

    faculty, The Barrow Group, NYC
    arlene@barrowgroup.org
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  • 8.  RE: Scenes needed

    Posted 01-31-2024 14:57

    I have used scenes from Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Independence (by Lee Blessing), Anton in Show Business, These Shining Lives, and The Children's Hour.



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    Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
    Theatre, Film, and Communications Instructor
    Shenandoah Valley Governor's School
    Fishersville, VA
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  • 9.  RE: Scenes needed

    Posted 02-01-2024 08:30

    Amy - anything from Lauren Gunderson for the two women: Silent Sky, The Revolutionists, etc.



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    Craig A Miller
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  • 10.  RE: Scenes needed

    Posted 02-01-2024 09:27

    I sometimes tell my students that this is the "Holy Grail" of theatre teachers - scenes or songs for three or more women.  Seems like most of us have mostly female students, while a lot of the literature involves mostly male casts.  Sometimes as a community of theatre teachers, we feel honor-bound to let our colleagues know any time we find a new female group scene or song!

    Lee Blessing's Eleemosynary has a cast of three - all women - and my students have often pulled scenes from it for classroom performance.  It offers students the added challenge of same-age kids differentiating characters over three generations, since the roles are a teen-aged girl, her mother, and her grandmother.



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    Jeff Grove
    Theatre Teacher, Aesthetics Department Chair
    Stanton College Prep
    FL
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  • 11.  RE: Scenes needed

    Posted 02-01-2024 22:53

    For 2 M and 1 W, I recommend Star Spangled Girl by Neil Simon and Wait Until Dark, the Jeffrey Hatcher adaptation of Frederick Knott's play.

    For 3 W, I second the suggestion of Lee Blessing's Eleemosynary--beautiful script!

    The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux has a scene for 4 W, delightful character parts.  If I'm remembering right, the scene starts with 3 of them.



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    Laurie Nebeker
    Eden Prairie High School
    Eden Prairie, MN
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