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

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Robin Blasberg
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Original Message:
Sent: 1/31/2024 7:17:00 AM
From: Jennifer Jordan
Subject: RE: Scenes needed

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..."

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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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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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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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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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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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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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