| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
137 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: how to perform monologs -- Actors and monologs -- Selecting monologs -- Devising the vis-à-vis -- Goals and obstacles -- Staging -- Notes on the monologs that follow -- Monologs for women -- Voice of the prairie / John Olive -- Retro / Megan Terry -- Sea of forms / Megan Terry -- The web / Martha Boesing -- Night luster / Laura Harrington -- When the bough breaks / Robert Clyman -- Stuck / Adele Edling Shank -- Abingdon square / Maria Irene Fornés -- Wetter than water / Deborah Pryor -- The old settler / John Henry Redwood -- Truth: the testimonial of Sojourner truth / Eric Coble -- Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe / Eric Coble -- Sally's gone, she left her name / Russell Davis -- Night train to Bolina / Nilo Cruz -- This one thing I do / Claire Braz-Valentine -- Blue skies forever / Claire Braz-Valentine -- Punk Girls / Elizabeth Wong -- Cleveland Raining / Sung Rno -- Night breath / Dennis Klontz -- The boiler room / Reuben Gonzalez -- Interborough transit / Adam Kraar -- Lady Liberty / Adam Kraar -- Who ever said I was a good girl? / Gustavo Ott -- A Tuesday in April / Max Bush -- Prodigal kiss (1) / Caridad Svich -- Prodigal kiss (2) / Caridad Svich -- Jambulu / Mary Fengar Gail -- The stonewater rapture / Doug Wright -- Tongue of a bird / Ellen McLaughlin -- |
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Monologs for men -- Retro / Megan Terry -- Sea of forms / Megan Terry -- Rough Stock / Ric Averill -- Love's labours wonne / Don Nigro -- Abingdon square / Maria Irene Fornés -- Souvenirs / Sheldon Rosen -- The China crisis / Kipp Erante Cheng -- Final passages / Robert Schenkkan -- Sunday sermon / David Henry Hwang -- Principia scriptoriae / Richard Nelson -- The fifth sun (1) / Nicholas A. Patricca -- The fifth sun (2) Nicholas A. Patricca -- The migrant farmworker's son / Silvia Gonzalez S. -- The emerald circle / Max Bush -- Heaven's hard / Jordan Budde -- 4 square blocks / Michelle A. Hamilton -- Les Trois Dumas / Charles Smith -- Brown & black & white all over / Antonio Sacre -- The last magician (1) / Albert Morell -- The last Magician (2) / Albert Morell -- Punch drunk / Ethan Sandler and Josie Dickson. |
| Subject |
Monologues.
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Acting -- Auditions.
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| Added Author |
Ellis, Roger, 1943 May 18-
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| ISBN |
156608055X paper |
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9781566080552 paper |
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