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Sixty Comedy Duet Scenes for Teens: Real-Life Situations for Laughter

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The book is organized by male-male, female-female, and male-female scenes. A few might be long enough for forensic competitions, but most would be more useful in the classroom as practice pieces for a beginning drama class.

Though the topics would be familiar to teens, the feel of each scene is repetitious. The characterization is not very strong; most of the characters sound exactly alike, and there are very few opportunities for strong emotional choices. The characters drawn are stereotypical teens without depth, and the cultural focus is extremely narrow centering around middle-class, Caucasian students. Because of the previously mentioned failings, the book would be better suited for middle school students in beginning drama or communication classes. English classes could use the book as a springboard to journals or other topics middle-schoolers would want to discuss.

This is useful for anyone needing to find dialogue for a presentation, competition, or just for fun in class. Teens sometimes have difficutly finding scenes to present and this is a great resource.

Great work! My students love it. It's written by someone who knows drama and teenagers. The sketches are very funny!

These scenes are hilarious! Students will love performing these scenes! Some of my favorites are: Public Display of Affection, Mighty Senior, Sole Student, Parking Permit and Poetry is Stupid. Awesome!