Twenty-Five 5-MINUTE POWER SCENES Lena Harris The Lena Harris Studio Beverly Hills, California In E-Z Read® Format Scene Study Series A Smith and Kraus BookA Smith and Kraus Book Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc. 177 lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755 ‘www.smithandkraus.com © 2005 by Lena Harris Al rights reserved CAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that the mate- rial in this book is fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America, and of all countries covered by the International Copyright Union (including the Dominion of Canada and the rest of the British Commonwealth}, and of all countries covered by the Pan-American Copyright Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention, and of all countries with which the United States has reciprocal copyright relations. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, lecturing, public reading, radio broadcasting, television, video or sound taping, all other forms of mechanical or electronic reproduc- fions such as CD-ROM and CD4, information storage and retrieval sys- tems and phi ing, and the rights of translation into foreign languages, are strictly reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America Cover Photograph of lena Harris © 2005 by Gary Bemstein Cover and Text Design by Julia Hill Gignoux First Edition: November 2005 10987654321 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harris, Lena. 25 five-minute power scenes / Lena Harris. —1st ed. p. cm. — (Scene study series) ISBN 1-57525-432-8 1. Dialogues. 2. Acting. |. Tile: Twenty-five five-minute power scenes, Il. Title. Ill. Series. PN2080.H37 2005 812'.6—de22 2005054140To my wonderful family, Gary, Romé, and Caron. I love you. Special thanks to my actors.