Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors - Michael Schulman

This collection of contemporary scenes provides the student actor, as well as professional and untrained performers, with material from some of the best plays ever written. Each selection contains critical information on characters, setting, and background to give a clear sense of what the play is about. Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors accommodates a wide variety of acting styles, from naturalistic to poetic to highly stylized, spanning a range of ages and a variety of locales, and incorporating excerpts of various lengths.

Includes scenes from plays by

Woody Allen

Maxwell Anderson

Jean Anouilh

Simon Gray

John Guare

Lillian Hellman

Albert Innaurato

David Mamet

Mark Medoff

Arthur Miller

Miguel Pinero

David Rabe

Sam Shepard

Tennessee Williams

And many more!