Dramatic Duets

Afraid Of The Dark         $4.00 Callahan. From the play. 10 min. Scene: Death Row. Characters: warden, chaplain, and three prisoners: A Mexican, afraid to die, but strengthened in faith by the Captain; the Captain-'a gentleman but for one mistake,' and a hardened criminal who is last to go to chair. In spite of his 'wisecracks,' he succumbs to fear, then turns to God as he tries to recall the Lord's Prayer. ISBN 1-60045-112-8

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Antigone         $4.00 By Sophocles, greatest of Greek poets. Adaptation from the tragedy. 10 min. Antigone defies decree of Creon, the king, that her dead brother should not be buried. Her sister, Ismene, fearfully and unwillingly offers to help, but Antigone refuses her aid and buries him by herself, and thus meets king's wrath. ISBN 1-60045-106-3

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Antony And Cleopatra         $4.00 Shakespeare. An arrangement from the tragedy. 10 min. The death scenes of both Antony and Cleopatra with all their drama and pathos are here portrayed. Several characters. ISBN 1-60045-163-2

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Ase's Death         $4.00 Ibsen. From the play, 'Peer Gynt.' 10 min. Peer arrives home just in time to make his mother's last minutes easier. For her, he enacts scenes of his childhood. ISBN 1-60045-219-1

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Bad Seed         $4.00 Maxwell Anderson. From the spinetingling, chilling play. One of Broadway's outstanding successes. 10 min. Mother of drowned boy visits school he attended. Adult characters. ISBN 1-60045-046-6

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Brutus And Cassius         $4.00 Shakespeare. From 'Julius Caesar.' 10 min. The two characters speak. ISBN 1-60045-341-4

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Caesar And Cleopatra         $4.00 Shaw. From the play. 10 min. Caesar comes, by moonlight, to the Sphinx and finds there, Cleopatra, the sixteen-year-old Queen of Egypt. She has come there 'because the Romans are coming to eat us all.' Caesar persuades her to go back to her throne to meet the Romans in bravery. She does not know who he is until the soldiers salute him. A most delightful piece. 1-60045-342-2

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Cherry Orchard         $4.00 Chekov. An outstanding reading from this famous author's greatest play. 10 min. We consider this the best of the Chekov readings. Several good characters. ISBN 1-60045-049-0

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Comedy And Tragedy         $4.00 W.S. Gilbert. from the drama. 10 min. To keep the knowledge from their guests that her husband is fighting a duel in garden. Clarice improvises, in comedy and tragedy, many impersonations. A challenge to the best talents. ISBN 1-60045-137-3

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Dark Victory         $4.00 Brewer-Bloch. From play that was produced in New York with Tallulah Bankhead, and as motion picture with Bette Davis. 10 min. The story of the transformation love wrought in the life of young woman. It portrays the sacrifice she makes when she knows that death is coming suddenly. Characters: society woman, the doctor and the servant. ISBN 1-60045-267-1

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Darkest Hour, The         $4.00 Charles George. From powerful one act drama. 10 min. An innocent young man has been charged with murder on circumstantial evidence. He has no way of proving his innocence as appearances are against him. His mother comes to pay last visit before his execution. ISBN 1-60045-018-0

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Doll's House, A         $4.00 From Isben's play. 10 min. The scene in which Nora leaves her husband because he regards her nothing but a doll. The two characters. ISBN 1-60045-350-3

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Electra's Revenge         $4.00 This reading from Euripides' drama. 7 min. This adaptation is for those who wish a shorter selection with no male characters. (There are only Electra and her mother). An exceptionally strong, short reading. ISBN 1-60045-155-1

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Finger Of God         $4.00 Percival Wilde. From the play. 10 min. A man prepares to abscond with a large sum of money. He is saved to his better self by a young woman who reminds him of people's faith in him. The two are the principal characters. ISBN 1-60045-355-4

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Ghosts         $4.00 Isben. Arranged from tragic closing scene of the drama. 10 min. Young man, who has been informed that he will go insane, exacts a promise from his mother that when time comes she will give him pills to end it all. Even as he speaks, his reason leaves him and his mother stands in speechless terror. Good dual act. ISBN 1-60045-359-7

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I'M NOT GOING         $4.00 I'm Not Going. Bob Myers. 5 min, Duet, Val feels responsible for death of nephew who died of SIDS while in her care. Because of the guilt, she has been unable to get past her grief and be a part of her husband's family again. Characters: Val and her husband. ISBN 1-60045-365-1

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Isabella Pleads For Her Brother         $4.00 Shakespeare. From 'Measure for Measure.' 10 min. Isabella comes to wicked Angelo to plead for her brother who is condemned to die. Most Dramatic. ISBN 1-60045-368-6

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Jane Eyre         $4.00 Charlotte Bronte. From book. 8 min. Dramatic scene where Jane returns to Rochester after he is blinded. ISBN 1-60045-080-6

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King Lear's Daughters         $4.00 Shakespeare. From play, 'King Lear.' 10 min. One of best Shakespeare readings for a girl. Characters: Lear and his three daughters. ISBN 1-60045-370-8

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Last Rendezvos, The         $4.00 E. Rostand. From play, 'Cyrano de Bergerac.' 10 min. Cyrano meets Roxane for the last time, and she learns that it is he who prompted her soldier lover, and helped him to 'rally his poor eloquence.' Thus enlightened, she says, 'I see through all the generous counterfeit-you. On this letter which he never wrote, the tears were your tears.' Adult characters. Most Dramatic. ISBN 1-60045-026-1

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Mary Stuart         $4.00 From Schiller's drama. 8 min. With this reading, 'Miss Nashville' won the Miss America trophy, 1958. The conversation between Mary, Queen of Scots, and Queen Elizabeth. Mary is pleading for her life. ISBN 1-60045-191-8

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Moon Is Down         $4.00 John Steinback. From the Broadway play. 10 min. Story of Mayor Orden who stood true in spite of Nazi conquerors who took over his country. ISBN 1-60045-381-3

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No Best Friend Of Mine         $4.00 Deborah Karczewski. 8 min. Duet. Candy wants her H.S. friend Sue to drive her to a party for older college students. Sue reminds her of a previous party where alcohol and drugs were freely used. Candy is determined to go, she wants to show Billy that she is 'cool'. Even though she loses her friend, Sue refuses to drive her to the party. ISBN 1-60045-258-2

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Of Mice And Men         $4.00 John Steinbeck. From the Broadway drama. 12 min. It is the story of George and Lennie, farm hands. Lennie is weak and affectionate and George becomes his protector. Lennie loves animals so much that his petting kills them. Finally he strangles a girl but is unaware of what he has done except that it is something that George will think is wrong. To save him from a worse fate, George shoots Lennie. Several adult characters. 1-60045-194-2

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On Borrowed Time         $4.00 Paul Osborne. From the successful Broadway play. 10 min. Death is chased up an apple tree by a boy and his grandfather. ISBN 1-60045-382-1

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Rebecca         $4.00 Dalphne du Maurier. From the successful London and New York play. 10 min. Mrs. de Winter, a young bride is made to suffer from reminders of her husband's first wife, Rebecca. Good characters. ISBN 1-60045-135-7

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Swan Song, The         $4.00 Anton Checkov. From story. 10 min. A worn out old actor, rallies in empty theatre. He gives powerful bits of classic dramas before an old stage hand. Then his eloquence slips away. Good opportunity for display of talent. ISBN 1-60045-391-0

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Thing, The         $4.00 Percival Wilde. From the tense drama. 10 min. A man is followed everywhere. By a startling disclosure, we find that it is his conscience that has been following him. Characters: a man and his conscience. ISBN 1-60045-054-7

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Time To be Noticed         $4.00 Deborah Karczewski. 8 min. Duet. Jane and Eileen sit outside the H.S. principal's office door. Jane knows Eileen obtained the teacher's copy of a test. Because they both got an 'A', they will both be accused. Eileen tries to get Jane to lie. Even though she may lose her college scholarship Jane realizes she cannot lie for her. Names could be changed for two male actors. ISBN 1-60045-069-5

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Trifles         $4.00 Susan Glaspell. From the drama. 10 min. To the state's attorney the evidence was only 'trifles,' but to two women, these trifles read a tale of heartbreak and tragedy. ISBN 1-60045-248-5

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When The Sun Rises         $4.00 Dorothy C. Allen. From the play. 10 min. Tom and Louise, just before their wedding day, have been injured. (They had been driving too fast). They are now lying at the point of death. A powerful reading. ISBN 1-60045-154-3

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Witches' Scene From Macbeth         $4.00 'From the tragedy. 10 min. It has been said that 'no other drama of Shakespeare seems to condense so oppressive a body of emotion into a space so narrow.' Characters: three witches and Macbeth. ISBN 1-60045-256-6

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