11 of the Best Scenes for Three or More Actors
Written by Tiffany Wilkie
November 12, 2018
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1. A scene from Fugue by Laura Elizabeth Miller
Drama / 1 m, 3f
ABOUT THE PLAY: Fugue gives voice to the tragic recollections of three murdered children who relive their eerily similar nightmares of being kidnapped. Written as a staged poem, Fugue has been produced across the US and in multiple countries.
2. A scene from The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe
Dramatic Comedy/ 6f
ABOUT THE PLAY: Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
3. A scene from Water by the Spoonful by
Drama/ 2m, 2f
ABOUT THE PLAY: Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of family and community are stretched across continents and cyberspace as birth families splinter and online families collide. WATER BY THE SPOONFUL is a heartfelt meditation on lives on the brink of redemption.
4. A scene from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Drama/ 8m
ABOUT THE PLAY: The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.
5. A scene from The Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage by David Ives
Comedy/ 3m, 2f
ABOUT THE PLAY: There’s a body on the carpet. Three ridiculous Masterpiece Theatre-style suspects and a bumbling Scotland Yard detective solve philosophical quandaries as they investigate: Who killed Jeremy Thumpington-Fffienes?
6. A scene from For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls by Christopher Durang
Comedy/ 2m, 2f
ABOUT THE PLAY: In this parody of THE GLASS MENAGERIE, the fading Southern belle, Amanda, tries to prepare her hyper-sensitive, hypochondriacal son, Lawrence, for “the feminine caller.” Terrified of people, Lawrence plays with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers. Ginny, the feminine caller, is hard of hearing and overbearingly friendly. Brother Tom wants to go the movies, where he keeps meeting sailors who need to be put up in his room. Amanda tries to face everything with “charm and vivacity,” but sometimes she just wants to hit somebody.
7. A scene from Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
Comedy/ 2m, 2f
ABOUT THE PLAY: CLYBOURNE PARK explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.
8. A scene from Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz
Comedy/ 1m, 4f
ABOUT THE PLAY: Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history—a wound they don’t want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it.
9. A scene from Sweat by Lynn Nottage*
Drama/ 4m
ABOUT THE PLAY: Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.
10. A scene from The Humans by Stephen Karam*
Drama/ 2m, 4f
ABOUT THE PLAY: Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside the ramshackle pre-war duplex, eerie things start to go bump in the night and the heart and horrors of the Blake clan are exposed.
11. A scene from God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
Comedy/ 2m, 2f
ABOUT THE PLAY: Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside the ramshackle pre-war duplex, eerie things start to go bump in the night and the heart and horrors of the Blake clan are exposed.
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