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Why Shakespeare? Shakespeare is pretty stylised by today's conventions. You might want to pick something a bit more modern. Shakespearian acting is a specific skills and you might have a hard time working with actors who aren't used to it.
What is it you're specifically trying to learn? coverage? staging for camera? directing actors? You might be better taking a scene from an film and trying to recreate it shot for shot in order to learn coverage/staging for example, or a scene from a more recent or even contemporary play if it's about actors, where they're not going to be fighting to with the iambic pentameter.
Ibsen's A Doll's House has lots of good two hander scenes (though sometimes quite long) and the dialogue is quiet straightforward and contemporary, but there's usually lots of heavy subtext too, which is fun for the actors to work with.
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