Get in the Act!; 60 Monologs, Dialogs, and Skits for Teens

This exciting collection of monologues, dialogs and short skits gives teenagers a chance to laugh at themselves and still feel good about it. It also provides 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 produce 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, 51/2 x 81/2, paperback)