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Tables of Contents for Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
11
10
Preface
21
2
How to Approach a Scene
23
16
Part I---Scenes for One Man and One Woman
39
186
Lovers and Other Strangers
41
5
Renee Taylor
Joseph Bologna
A Streetcar Named Desire
46
7
Tennessee Williams
Two for the Seesaw
53
7
William Gibson
Gemini
60
4
Albert Innaurato
I Never Sang for My Father
64
2
Robert Anderson
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
66
2
David Mamet
The Lion in Winter
68
4
James Goldman
The Crucible
72
4
Arthur Miller
The Owl and the Pussycat
76
5
Bill Manhoff
Same Time, Next Year
81
5
Bernard Slade
Kingdom of Earth
86
6
Tennessee Williams
Thieves
92
5
Herb Gardner
Otherwise Engaged
97
5
Simon Gray
Golden Boy
102
4
Clifford Odets
The Great White Hope
106
5
Howard Sackler
A Cry of Players
111
6
William Gibson
Butterflies Are Free
117
4
Leonard Gershe
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
121
5
William Inge
The Tenth Man
126
6
Paddy Chayefsky
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
132
4
Mark Medoff
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
136
6
Tennessee Williams
Hello Out There
142
3
William Saroyan
The House of Blue Leaves
145
5
John Guare
The Sea Horse
150
6
Edward J. Moore
Serenading Louie
156
3
Landford Wilson
The Trip Back Down
159
3
John Bishop
Moony's Kid Don't Cry
162
5
Tennessee Williams
6 RMS RIV VU
167
4
Bob Randall
Dirty Hands
171
2
Jean-Paul Sartre
Lionel Abel
The Goodbye People
173
6
Herb Gardner
You Know I can't Hear You When the Water's Running
179
5
Robert Anderson
Days of Wine and Roses
184
3
JP Miller
Did You Ever Go to P.S. 43?
187
10
Michael Schulman
The Only Game in Town
197
4
Frank D. Gilroy
The Subject Was Roses
201
3
Frank D. Gilroy
At Home
204
6
Conrad Bromberg
The Tiger
210
5
Murray Schisgal
Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer
215
10
Jason Miller
Part II---Scenes for Two Women
225
74
In the Boom Boom Room
227
3
David Rabe
Hello from Bertha
230
4
Tennessee Williams
The Miracle Worker
234
4
William Gibson
The Killing of Sister George
238
5
Frank Marcus
Antigone
243
4
Jean Anouilh
Lewis Galantiere
The Children's Hour
247
4
Lillian Hellman
Curse of the Starving Class
251
3
Sam Shepard
Moonchildren
254
3
Michael Weller
Father's Day
257
5
Oliver Hailey
The Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstermaker
262
7
William Snyder
The Bad Seed
269
3
Maxwell Anderson
No Exit
272
4
Jean-Paul Sartre
Stuart Gilbert
Ladies at the Alamo
276
4
Paul Zindel
The Girl on the Via Flaminia
280
4
Alfred Hayes
The Gingham Dog
284
3
Lanford Wilson
Patio/Porch
287
4
Jack Heifner
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
291
8
Paul Zindel
Part III---Scenes for Two Men
299
134
American Buffalo
301
2
David Mamet
A View from the Bridge
303
5
Arthur Miller
Equus
308
10
Peter Shaffer
The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
318
3
David Rabe
Play It Again, Sam
321
3
Woody Allen
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
324
5
Tennessee Williams
Butley
329
8
Simon Gray
A Man for All Seasons
337
4
Robert Bolt
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
341
4
Dale Wasserman
Short Eyes
345
3
Miguel Pifiero
Luv
348
6
Murray Schisgal
A Thousand Clowns
354
4
Herb Gardner
Becket (or The Honour of God)
358
4
Jean Anouilh
Lucienne Hill
Streamers
362
4
David Rabe
Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
366
6
Don Petersen
A Hatful of Rain
372
5
Michael V. Gazzo
The Boys in the Band
377
3
Mart Crowley
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
380
4
Lorraine Hansberry
Inherit the Wind
384
4
Jerome Lawrence
Robert E. Lee
The Wager
388
5
Mark Medoff
Hogan's Goat
393
9
William Alfred
Knock Knock
402
5
Jules Feiffer
Count Dracula
407
2
Ted Tiller
The Creation of the World and Other Business
409
5
Arthur Miller
Family Business
414
5
Dick Goldberg
The Private Ear
419
8
Peter Shaffer
Deathtrap
427
6
Ira Levin
Index
433