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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Meriwether Pub
Published date: 1991
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Ages: 10 to 12
Synopses
Scenes for acting students to perform, based on high school experiences such as breaking up, peer pressure, dances, dating, cheating, telephones, and teenage pregnancy.
Publisher's Notes
Thirty-four real-life scenes for guys and girls and mixed casts of two to four actors. Suitable for classroom or stage performance. Excellent contest scripts because student actors portray themselves in the bearable and impossible situations of teenage existence. Themes include dating, popularity, growing up, graduation, suspension from school, and moving -- experiences to laugh about and cry about. Scene lengths vary from four to seven minutes each. Royalty-free performance with book purchase. Sample scenes include: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Beaching It, Girl Talk, Moving Out, The Jerk, Midnight Run, and Taking a Joke.
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