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- English
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The Contemporary Monologue: Men
About This Book
The Contemporary Monologue is an exciting selection of speeches of all types, serious and comic, realistic and absurdist, drawn from plays written by contemporary playwrights over the past ten years. Updating the popular Modern Monologues, this fresh collection of speeches represents the best American and English playwrights of today including Caryl Churchill, Ariel Dorfman, John Guare, David Mamet, Tony Kushner, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman. Organized for maximum benefit to the actor gleaning for background material, individual selections are introduced with a summary of the play's action up to the point the speech begins. A brief sketch of the character is also given, utilizing, where possible, the playwright's own words. Finally, a commentary follows each monologue, alerting the actor to details in the speech that could help him/her perform it better. Some of the highlights of The Contemporary Monologue for men include selections from Angels in America, by Tony Kushner; Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune, by Terrence McNally; States of Shock, by Sam Shepard; and Speed-the-Plow, by David Mamet. Highlights of The Contemporary Monologue for women include selections from: The Contemporary Monologue is an invaluable resource for acting classes, competitions, auditions and rehearsals. It is an affordable and necessary tool for serious actors everywhere.
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Contents
Notes to the Actor
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Notes to the Actor
- Angels in America
- Assassins
- Babies
- Belfry
- Berlin Bertie
- Boy with Beer
- Boys' Life
- Burn This
- Cigarettes and Chocolate
- Dancing Attendance
- Death and the Maiden
- Dog
- Etta Jenks
- The Fastest Clock in the Universe
- Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
- The Gigli Concert
- Hard Feelings
- Imagine Drowning
- La BĂȘte
- The Last Yankee
- Laughing Wild
- Molly Sweeney
- Moonlight
- The Normal Heart
- Oleanna
- The Pitchfork Disney
- Playing by the Rules
- Progress
- Search and Destroy
- Serious Money
- Six Degrees of Separation
- Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
- Speed-the-Plow
- States of Shock
- Talking Heads
- Three Hotels
- To
- Two Shakespearean Actors
- A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
- The Woman Who Cooked her Husband
- Women Laughing
- Your Home in the West
- Play Sources
- Acknowledgements