The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1996


Book Description

Another volume of this best-selling scene book. All scenes are excerpted from the plays from the 1995 theatrical season. Includes selections from: The Ends of The Earth, Molly Sweeny, Lesbian's Last Pizza, Losers of the Big Picture, Slaughter City, Yankee Kugel, and Fragments. Playwright/Editor Jocelyn A. Beard, a veteran of NYU's film school and the Yale School of Drama, has edited almost forty monologue books for Smith and Kraus. Her Screenplay, Igor and the Lunatics, was made into a feature film and subsequently listed in Heavy Metal magazine as "One of the 10 Sleaziest Movies Ever Made!" Notwithstanding, Jocelyn lives in an old haunted house in the Hudson River Valley with her husband, Kevin Kitowski, their beautiful daughter, Blythe, and lots of dogs.




American Theatre Book of Monologues for Women


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Audition monologues selected from plays first published in American theatre magazine since 1985.




The Vagina Monologues


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Drawing on conversations with hundreds of women about their genitalia, the author presents a collection of performance pieces from her one-woman show of the same name.




Contemporary American Monologues for Women


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Audition monologues for female characters selected from recent works by American playwrights including Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz, Constance Congdon, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, Emily Mann, Eric Bogosian, Nicky Silver, and others. Unique to the TCG monologue series is a bibliography of other works by the playwrights included.







The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1998


Book Description

The latest edition of America's best-selling monologue series for women. All monologues are excerpted from plays produced during the 1998 theatrical season.




Apartment 3A


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THE STORY: Reeling from the loss of what she thought was the love of her life, Annie Wilson searches for a reason to hope again with a mysterious next-door neighbor who teaches her what it truly means to be in love forever.







The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1997


Book Description

The seventh volume of America's best-selling monologue series for women. All monologues are excerpted from plays produced during the 1998 theatrical season.




The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues


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This unique anthology provides a wealth of material for actors and acting students, and a wonderful overview of the best recent plays for anyone interested in theatre. The more than 150 monologues cover a diverse range of subjects, and offer a variety of dramatic styles and moods. Each monologue is introduced with a short description of the plot, setting, and character type by the leading plauwrights of our time. Featured dramatists include: Christopher Durang, Wendy Wasserstein, Lanford Wilson, Wallace Shawn, Tina Howe, Caryl Churchill, Athol Fugard, Beth Henley, Sam Shepard, David Henry Hwang, Harry Kondoleon, John Patrick Shanley, Larry Shue, Michael Weller, David Rabe, Marsha Norman, August Wilson, Albert Innaurato, Jules Feiffer, Harold Pinter, David Hare, Jose Rivera, Tom Stoppard, John Guare, David Mamet, Charles Fuller, William Matrosimone, Robert Patrick, Miguel Pinero