Get in the Act!
Sixty monologs, dialogs, and skits for teens
By Shirley Ullom
This exciting collection of monologs, dialogs and short skits gives teenagers a chance to laugh at themselves and still feel good about it. It also gives them a tool to explore issues important to them: drunk driving, elderly grandparents, parties, smoking, broken homes, alcoholic parents and death. There are scripts for laughter and scripts for pathos. Overall, they create an awareness of the perils of passage as teens reach for adulthood. This book contains 60 superb, original short scripts for speech contests, acting exercises, auditions, variety shows and classroom use. It’s a book ideal for any school theatre library.(184 pages, 5½ x 8½, paperback)
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Hear what directors and critics are saying:
Just for the fun of it, Get in the Act!, and some teen problems and attitudes may come into focus. Shirley Hilderbrand, Eclectic Book Reviews
Lines for laughter and pathos to create an awareness of the perils of passage as teens reach for adulthood? drinking and driving, teenage parties, smoking, alcoholic parents and much more. Highly recommended. Cynthia Rogers, teacher