20 Practice Scenes for 2 Actors

20 Practice Scenes for 2 Actors offers scenes for 2 women, 2 men or 1 woman and 1 man.  Great material for auditions or drama class.

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20 Practice Scenes for 2 Actors

2 Women – Drama

Maybe you’re having a mental breakdown at some point.

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Cathy, Barbra
• From the short play Ice Cream From a Window
• Cathy lashes out at her friend inside an ice cream parlor due to the fact that she’s on the verge of a breakdown.

I don’t want another dumb argument.

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Evandro, Salene
• From the short play Four Summers Ago
• Two sisters who don’t get along but love one another stand between their pride and their compassion for one another.

Aren’t you going to try your eggs?

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Corinne, Mom
• From the short play Treat Me Nice
• Corinne does everything for her ailing mother despite how horrific she gets treated on a daily basis.

You are far from sober girl.

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Pina, Tyra
• From the short play Day Follows Night
• Pina comes to the aid of her best friend after receiving a drunken phone call.

Our town is the pits.

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Dawn, Chizel
• From the short play Acid Taste
• Three teenagers hangout at a toxic lake and one of them goes in for a swim based on a challenge.

2 Women – Comedy

I’m not the needy type, right?

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Meagan, Natalie
• From the short play Phone Calls
• After Meagan believes she met the man of her dreams, the annoying fact that he still hasn’t called her is firing her up.

He looked rough around the edges.

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Pam, Kim
• From the short play Rather Be a Man
• While two best friends hang out at a cafe, a guy approaches them with the invite to a house party.

I need a drink.

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Tara, Ella
• From the short play Lunch With The Enemy
• A jealous co-worker doesn’t want her friend dating a guy she doesn’t like.

Your eyes dazzle with that type of green.

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Maggie, Sally
• From the short play Nobody Cares
• A funny one-act play featuring an intense sales rep at a retail store that terrorizes a couple.

Something in the macaroni and cheese bowl moved.

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Alexa, Mara
• From the short play Fungus Among Us
• Roommates battle the elements living inside their filthy refrigerator due to the fact that they never clean their apartment.

2 Men – Drama

Don’t call me nuts, you know I hate that.

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Frank, Salve
• From the short play Hurts When It Rains
• Two brothers involved in crime and a woman who gets in the way of their motives.

I have an ego cause I’ve earned my ego.

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Bill, Vince
• From the short play Mr. Bad Mood
• Bill has a painful admission for his son who visits him unannounced at work.

I’m with you soldier.

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Chester, Tom
• From the short play Facing the Sun
• Two soldiers are left stranded after battle on top of a mountain during a major snow blizzard approaches.

I once seen a boxer.

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Nico, Maddock
• From the short play Big Time
• Maddock realizes he’s past his boxing prime and wants to work for the mob in order to make a living.

How did you find me?

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Billy, Rob
• From the short play Checking In
• Rob finds the father who disappeared when he was two in order to set the record straight.

2 Men – Comedy

You always get headaches when we talk past a third grade level.

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Joe, Dan
• From the short play The Last M&M Samurai
• Dan messes with his friend’s psychology in all good fun.

I’ll meet you halfway.

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Vance, Dono
• From the short play Henry’s Done Enough
• Dono doesn’t want to live with Vance’s creepy statues all over their apartment.

Have you written anything else?

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Max, Nicky
• From the short play Fishin’ For Misery
• An out of work indie filmmaker tries to figure out why he isn’t inspired while drinking with his friend at the local pub.

No flowers, not even a card.

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Joshua, Milton
• From the short play Milton’s Plight
• A dark humor play act about two unhappy men during a pandemic lockdown.

How many people are out for ya, huh?

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Calum, Richie
• From the short play People’s Lives
• Richie admits to Calum that he performed a silent act and now Richie has to cover things up to protect him.