DUO!: THE BEST SCENES FOR TWO FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Spotlighting the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental writings since 2000, Duo! offers strong dramatic pieces for performance and study. Culled from the work of over one hundred playwrights—veterans as well as up-and-coming talents—this follow-up compendium to the popular edition of the 1990s is by turns comic, serious, or both, but always intensely human.
Filled with rich characters and universal storylines, Duo! speaks to people of all ages and backgrounds and tackles all the paramount issues of our time—from race and gender to class and politics to love and sex. Tracy Letts confronts the aftermath of betrayal on a night too hot for sleep in August: Osage County; Karen Finley exposes sexual politics outside the Oval Office in George & Martha; Lynn Nottage delineates gentility, the fear of being alone, and the passage of time in Intimate Apparel; Richard Greenberg weighs the costs of being godly or becoming merely human in the baseball-themed Take Me Out; and Tina Howe bends time, showing the universal power of dramatic recognition across the ages, in Water Music.
The table of contents:
SCENES FOR A MAN AND A WOMAN
T H E A LT R U I S T S by Nicky Silver
AUGUST: O S A G E C O U N T Y by Tracy Letts
“ B E N C H S E AT ” F R O M
A U T O B A H N by Neil LaBute
THE AUTOMATA P I E TA by Constance Congdon
BLACK THANG by Ato Essandoh
D E A D M A N ’ S C E L L P H O N E by Sarah Ruhl
D E V E L O P I N G I N A
D A R K R O O M by Joseph Catalfano
E C S TAT I C S TAT E S by Juliana Francis Kelly
ELEPHANT by Margie Stokley
E L L I O T, A S O L D I E R ’ S
F U G U E by Quiara Alegría Hudes
ERRAT I C A by Reina Hardy
E X P E C T I N G I S A B E L by Lisa Loomer
FORCE CONTINUUM by Kia Corthron
FREEDOM HIGH by Adam Kraar
GAP by Carol S. Lashof
GEORGE & MARTHA by Karen Finley
T H E G R A N D D E S I G N by Susan Miller
GROUNDWORK OF THE META P H Y S I C
OF MORALS by Young Jean Lee
HENRY by Claudia Barnett
T H E I M P O S S I B I L I T Y O F M O S T
T H I N G S by Albert Innaurato
T H E L A S T F R E A K S H O W by Philip Zwerling
L E F T by Laura Henry
L E T I T G O by Crystal Field
MAGGIE MAY by Tom O’Brien
M A R E ’ S N E S T by Joseph Goodrich
T H E M E R C Y S E AT by Neil LaBute
M R . L U C K Y ’ S by Stephen Fife
ORSON’S SHADOW by Austin Pendleton
O U R L A D Y O F 1 2 1 S T
S T R E E T by Stephen Adly Guirgis
PA R A D I S E by Glyn O’Malley
PA R A D I S E PARK by Charles Mee
PERSEPHONE UNDERGROUND by Carol S. Lashof
PROPHECY by Karen Malpede
REBEL MOON by Brian Granger
R E D L I G H T W I N T E R by Adam Rapp
S C E N E S F R O M A N U N F I N I S H E D
L I F E by Leigh Kennicott
S C R I P T E D by Mark Harvey Levine
S H Y N E S S I S N I C E by Marc Spitz
S O M E G I R L ( s ) by Neil LaBute
S O M E G I R L ( s ) by Neil LaBute
SOUND by Robert Patrick
S O U V E N I R by Stephen Temperly
S O U V E N I R by Stephen Temperly
STUFF HAPPENS by David Hare
T H E Y ’ R E J U S T L I K E
U S by Boo Killebrew
V- E D AY by Faye Sholiton
WA I T I N G by Lisa Soland
WAT E R M U S I C by Tina Howe
WOMAN KILLER by Chiori Miyagawa
WTC VIEW by Brian Sloan
SCENES FOR TWO WOMEN
A G E O F A R O U S A L by Linda Griffiths
A L L T H I N G S B E I N G E Q U A L by Faye Sholiton
A M E R I C A N T E T by Lydia Stryk
A M S T E L I N T E L AV I V by Allyson Currin
D E A D M A N ’ S C E L L P H O N E by Sarah Ruhl
D E D I C AT I O N O R T H E S T U F F O F
D R E A M S by Terrence McNally
T H E D I R E C T O R by Barbara Cassidy
DOUBT by John Patrick Shanley
T H E E L E K T R A F U G U E S by Ruth Margraff
E Y E S O F T H E H E A R T by Catherine Filloux
F O R E I G N B O D I E S by Susan Yankowitz
G R I E V I N G F O R
G E N E V I E V E by Kathleen Warnock
H O T E L S P L E N D I D by Lavonne Mueller
I N F I N I T E SPACE by Rob Handel
T H E I N T E L L I G E N T D E S I G N
O F J E N N Y
C H O W by Rolin Jones
I N T I M AT E A P PAREL by Lynn Nottage
K I S S A N D C RY by Tom Rowan
T H E L A N G U A G E O F
K I S S E S by Edmund De Santis
M E A S U R E F O R P L E A S U R E:
A RESTORATION ROMP by David Grimm
MISS WITHERSPOON by Christopher Durang
N I G H T T R A I N T O B O L I N A by Nilo Cruz
R A B B I T H O L E by David Lindsay-Abaire
S C E N E S F R O M A N U N
F I N I S H E D L I F E by Leigh Kennicott
SECOND. by Neal Utterback
S T I L L L I F E W I T H PARROT
& MONKEY by Paula Cizmar
T H I R D by Wendy Wasserstein
V- E D AY by Faye Sholiton
WRINKLES by Rebecca Basham
YOGA WA R R I O R by Katherine Burkman, Susie Gerald, Ann C. Hall, Deborah Burkman,
and Richard Esquinas
SCENES FOR TWO MEN
APPA R I T I O N by Anne Washburn
A U N T I E M AYHEM by David Pumo
T H E B AT T L E O F L I G H T
A N D D A R K N E S S by Stephen Fife
BETRAYED by George Packer
B’SHALOM by Meron Langsner
BURNING THE OLD MAN by Kelly McAllister
CAVEMAN by Richard Maxwell
C O R P S VALUES by Brendon Bates
DEWEY BOY & WOOKIE by Dwight Watson
END ZONE by Bob Shuman
“F L O AT I N G H O M E” F R O M
A N I N T I M AT E H I S T O R Y
O F E X I L E by Adrián Rodríguez
A FREE COUNTRY by Stephen Most
G O D ’ S E A R by Jenny Schwartz
H O U S E , D I V I D E D by Larry Loebell
I JUST WA N N A G E T T O
P H O E N I X by John Lane
I N D I A N B L O O D by A. R. Gurney
I S T H AT A G U N I N Y O U R
P O C K E T by Carol Mullen
M E A S U R E F O R P L E A S U R E :
A RESTORATION
ROMP by David Grimm
OPUS by Michael Hollinger
ORSON’S SHADOW by Austin Pendleton
O U R L A D Y O F 1 2 1 S T
S T R E E T by Stephen Adly Guirgis
THE OVERWHELMING by J. T. Rogers
T H E PA R I S L E T T E R by Jon Robin Baitz
T H E P R I VAT E L I V E S
O F E S K I M O S by Ken Urban
R E A S O N S T O B E
P R E T T Y by Neil LaBute
REDEMPTION by Murray Schisgal
TA K E M E O U T by Richard Greenberg
TA K E M E O U T by Richard Greenberg
T I M E O U T by Erik Sherman
T H E W O M E N O F
L O C K E R B I E by Deborah Brevoort
T H E W R I T I N G O N T H E
WA L L by Ed Napier
Y O U A R E H E R E by Christina Anderson
ONE-ACTS FOR TWO
INTERREGNUM by William M. Hoffman
THE OTHER WOMAN by David Ives
Duo!
Duo! The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st Century
Joyce E. Henry, Ph. D., is professor emerita of Theatre and Communication Studies at Ursinus College. She is the editor of The Wisdom of Shakespeare and author of Beat the Bard. She lives in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
Rebecca Dunn Jaroff, Ph. D., is assistant professor of English at Ursinus College, where she teaches American literature, drama, and journalism. She lives in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
Bob Shuman, M.F.A., is an editor, playwright, college professor, and co-author of Simply Elegant Flowers with Michael George. A Fellow of the Lark Theatre Company, he received Hunter College’s
Irv Zarkower Award for excellence in playwriting. He lives in New York City.
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