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  • 1.  Comedy of Manners Scenes

    Posted 12-04-2017 20:12
    Compiling as many go-to scenes for students to work on for Comedy of Manners as I can.  List all you got - don't assume I'll think of the obvious. :)  Thanks!

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    Jessica Shaw
    Speech and Drama Teacher
    Alexandria VA
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  • 2.  RE: Comedy of Manners Scenes

    Posted 12-05-2017 09:53
    ​Cecily-Gwendolen and Algernon-Jack in Act II of The Importance of Being Earnest

    Lots of good two-person (and larger) scenes in The Misanthrope.

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    Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
    Theatre Department Coordinator
    Fishersville VA
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  • 3.  RE: Comedy of Manners Scenes

    Posted 12-05-2017 11:41
    I love The Constant Wife, by Somerset Maugham, and anything by Oscar Wilde.



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  • 4.  RE: Comedy of Manners Scenes

    Posted 12-05-2017 12:08
    Richard Sheridan's School for Scandal has several wonderful scenes for study.

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    Amy Learn
    Ballwin MO
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  • 5.  RE: Comedy of Manners Scenes

    Posted 12-05-2017 12:12
    If you want to open up your curriculum to contemporary comedies of manners, Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed. And The Country Club. And As Bees in Honey Drown. Also: Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage. Possibly even Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park.

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    Victoria Chatfield
    Executive Director
    National Theatre for Student Artists
    www.nationalstudenttheatre.org
    vchatfield@nationalstudenttheatre.org
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