10 Intense Scenes Featuring Couples in Conflict

10 Intense Scenes Featuring Couples in Conflict offers actors wanting to work on relationship material a short list of one-act play scenes.

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What is scene study in acting class?

Scene study is a fundamental approach to learning the craft of acting.  A drama teacher will oftentimes assign an actor with a scene partner to work on a scene from a play script together.

The aim is to concentrate on character development, relationship building, and various forms of exercise building.

Depending on what the acting teacher wishes to cover, the actors studying the scene will develop a better understanding of scene/script analysis.

We’ve selected 10 scenes where characters are in a relationship together with exploration on breaking up, marriage, abuse, cheating and much more.

The Echoes of Our Existence

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Seanna, Hopper
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: After Seanna challenges Hopper the nature of their relationship gets focused on and whether or not they continue seeing one another is open for debate.
• Scene Snippet: “I don’t believe I’m in love with my own manhood. I’m just an average guy.” ~Hopper
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Charade

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Philip, Reginald
• Duration: 12 Minute Play Script
• Description: Philip and Reginald are out for dinner at one of their favorite restaurants but when the check comes neither wishes to pay the bill.
• Scene Snippet: “You mean to tell me you just sat there waiting for me to take it?” ~Reginald
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The Woebegone

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Lex, Ray
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Lex and Ray are at the beach during a heatwave not to enjoy the atmosphere but to sell camera lenses to a stranger in order to have money to survive.
• Scene Snippet: “Ahhh God, stop working me up, always gotta work me up. You’re not the only moron out here baking in the sun, alright?” ~Ray
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Jef

• Genre: Drama / Science Fiction
• Characters: Jef, Landia
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: After losing the man of her dreams to an accident, Landia found his identical humanoid replacement but is no ready to move on in her life again.
• Scene Snippet: “Maybe I don’t deserve to have a place on this Earth.” ~Jef
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Mad to the Core

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Phebe, Dean
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Phebe has just found out her father died, which made her realize that the guy she’s dating may be a waste of time.
• Scene Snippet: “But, your dad just died, you’re thinkin’ irrational.” ~Dean
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Cuts 2

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Dawn, Grant
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: A dramatic one-act play written in verse wherein a couple still communicates together even though they are separated by death.
• Scene Snippet: “It was dark I swam there Some bits of light sparks in a tunnel took me to an endless sea The sea was light blue Bright florescent I could hear you Almost You kept calling me closer I kept swimming I saw something that looked like a body I reached out I thought it was you Reached out My fingers reached but nothing Was a mass of seaweed Beautiful still but not you” ~Dawn
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Five Months Later

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Bree, Carlston
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: After five months of not seeing Bree, she shows up unannounced at Carlston’s apartment during the middle of the night in need of help.
• Scene Snippet: “Yeah, with this woman who owns a gallery out there. She saw my work out here and picked it up, so…” ~Carlston
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See Me As A Stranger

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Gordy, Tammy
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Gordy is a young father who has no prospects going for himself in his life, but is doing the best he can to provide for his daughter.
• Scene Snippet: “There ain’t no nearby shops for baby food. That’s the whole point of you showing up!” ~Tammy
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Lost Against the Alley

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Buck, Orla
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Buck doesn’t feel as though he is good enough to get a corporate job, but Orla won’t allow him to stop believing in himself.
• Scene Snippet: “I’m not interested in what you’re just sayin’. I’m only interested in what you’re doin’.” ~Orla
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Petals From a Rose

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Margaret, Clifford
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: After many years have gone by without seeing one another, a former couple bumps into one another in town and make room to speak honestly.
• Scene Snippet: “Hmm. Honor. We are all born with a clean slate of honor, aren’t we? Till it chips away throughout time to reveal our true selves.” ~Clifford
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