Duo! Best Scenes for the 90s (Applause Acting Series)

Over one-hundred and thirty great scenes erupt from page to stage in this addition to the Applause Acting Series. Each scene has been selected as a freestanding dramatic unit offering two actors a wide range of theatrical challenge and opportunity. Each scene is set up with a synopsis of the play, character descriptions and notes on how to propel the scene to full power outside the context of the play. DUO! offers a full spectrum of age, region, genre, character, level of difficulty, and non-traditional casting potential.

Forthrightly addressed to actors looking for good audition material, this hefty helping of two-character interactions from recent successful plays belongs in libraries serving acting communities, to be sure. Given its big, wide-ranging selection, however, the book's not just for actors. Anyone interested in dramatic literature may find it a handy tool for selecting new playwrights to study or new candidates to consider for the next night of theatergoing. With excerpts from hits by the likes of A. R. Gurney, Athol Fugard, Christopher Durang, Beth Henley, David Henry Hwang, Harvey Fierstein, and Cynthia Heimel, neither actor, student, nor theatergoer can go wrong. Ray Olson