The Modern Monologue
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The Modern Monologue

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The Modern Monologue

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The Modern Monologue in two volumes, one for men and one for women, is an exciting selection of speeches drawn from the landmark plays of the 20th century. The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre-- and the plays most constantly performed on stage throughout the world--are represented in this unique collection. Monologues of all types--both serious and comic, realistic and absurdist--provide a dynamic challenge for all actors: the student, the amateur and the professional. A fuller appreciation of each speech is enhanced by the editors' introduction and commentaries that set the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance contexts.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781136083563
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts
Contents
Notes to the Actor
Absent Friends (1974) Alan Ayckbourn
All My Sons (1947) Arthur Miller
American Buffalo (1975) David Mamet
Antigone (1944) Jean Anouilh
Becket (1959) Jean Anouilh
Bingo (1973) Edward Bond
The Blood Knot (1961) Athol Fugard
Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) James Baldwin
Caligula (1945) Albert Camus
The Caretaker (1960) Harold Pinter
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948) Bertolt Brecht
Chips With Everything (1962) Arnold Wesker
Cloud Nine (1979) Caryl Churchill
Curse of the Starving Class (1976) Sam Shepard
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967) Peter Nichols
East (1975) Steven Berkoff
Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964) Joe Orton
Faith Healer (1979) Brian Friel
The Glass Menagerie (1945) Tennessee Williams
The Homecoming (1965) Harold Pinter
The House of Blue Leaves (1971) John Guare
Huis Clos [In Camera/No Exit] (1944) Jean-Paul Sartre
The Iceman Cometh (1940) Eugene O’Neill
Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) Samuel Beckett
La Turista (1967) Sam Shepard
Long Day’s Journey into Night (1940) Eugene O’Neill
Look Back in Anger (1956) John Osborne
The Maids (1947) Jean Genet
Murder in the Cathedral (1935) T. S. Eliot
Napoli Milionaria (1945) Eduardo de Filippo
The Night of the Iguana (1961) Tennessee Williams
Otherwise Engaged (1975) Simon Gray
Present Laughter (1942) NoĂŤl Coward
The Price (1968) Arthur Miller
Pygmalion (1912) Bernard Shaw
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) Bertolt Brecht
Rhinoceros (1960) Eugène Ionesco
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) Tom Stoppard
The Rules of the Game (1919) Luigi Pirandello
The Ruling Class (1968) Peter Barnes
Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974) David Mamet
Spring Awakening (1892) Frank Wedekind
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Tennessee Williams
Table Manners (1973) Alan Ayckbourn
The Tooth of Crime (1972) Sam Shepard
Ubu Cuckolded (c. 1892) Alfred Jarry
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) Edward Albee
Play Sources
Acknowledgements
Notes to the Actor
The Modem Monologue is a continuation of our previous collection The Classical Monologue. Here we start at the dawn of the modern age in 1892, presenting a survey of indispensable speeches from plays that continue to shape the course of modern theatre. The plays included in this collection also happen to be the ones that have helped to define modern acting in all its many guises.
Modern playwrights such as Brecht, Genet, Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, Shepard, Guare, Nichols and Churchill, to name only a handful of the dramatists represented here, assume that a play and its characters are malleable and shifting; that mood swings, strangeness and sudden eruptions are key components of modern theatre’s compelling attraction. We are, after all, not watching something ‘real’ but something liberated from reality; not a psychologically whole character but very often an extreme or fragmented one; not life itself but an ‘imitation’ of life. Theatre is manifestly theatrical. The actor is a partner in this enterprise. His transformational talent makes a key statement about the very nature of modern drama. The modern play provokes the actor to respond freshly to the notion of what it means to be and to perform in front of others.
Modern acting is not just those specific principles formulated by Konstantin Stanislavski and his later followers; princip...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Notes to the Actor
  7. Absent Friends (1974) Alan Ayckbourn
  8. All My Sons (1947) Arthur Miller
  9. American Buffalo (1975) David Mamet
  10. Antigone (1944) Jean Anouilh
  11. Becket (1959) Jean Anouilh
  12. Bingo (1973) Edward Bond
  13. The Blood Knot (1961) Athol Fugard
  14. Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) James Baldwin
  15. Caligula (1945) Albert Camus
  16. The Caretaker (1960) Harold Pinter
  17. The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948) Bertolt Brecht
  18. Chips With Everything (1962) Arnold Wesker
  19. Cloud Nine (1979) Caryl Churchill
  20. Curse of the Starving Class (1976) Sam Shepard
  21. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967) Peter Nichols
  22. East (1975) Steven Berkoff
  23. Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964) Joe Orton
  24. Faith Healer (1979) Brian Friel
  25. The Glass Menagerie (1945) Tennessee Williams
  26. The Homecoming (1965) Harold Pinter
  27. The House of Blue Leaves (1971) John Guare
  28. Huis Clos [In Camera/No Exit] (1944) Jean-Paul Sartre
  29. The Iceman Cometh (1940) Eugene O’Neill
  30. Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) Samuel Beckett
  31. La Turista (1967) Sam Shepard
  32. Long Day’s Journey into Night (1940) Eugene O’Neill
  33. Look Back in Anger (1956) John Osborne
  34. The Maids (1947) Jean Genet
  35. Murder in the Cathedral (1935) T. S. Eliot
  36. Napoli Milionaria (1945) Eduardo de Filippo
  37. The Night of the Iguana (1961) Tennessee Williams
  38. Otherwise Engaged (1975) Simon Gray
  39. Present Laughter (1942) NoĂŤl Coward
  40. The Price (1968) Arthur Miller
  41. Pygmalion (1912) Bernard Shaw
  42. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) Bertolt Brecht
  43. Rhinoceros (1960) Eugène Ionesco
  44. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) Tom Stoppard
  45. The Rules of the Game (1919) Luigi Pirandello
  46. The Ruling Class (1968) Peter Barnes
  47. Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974) David Mamet
  48. Spring Awakening (1892) Frank Wedekind
  49. A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Tennessee Williams
  50. Table Manners (1973) Alan Ayckbourn
  51. The Tooth of Crime (1972) Sam Shepard
  52. Ubu Cuckolded (c. 1892) Alfred Jarry
  53. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) Edward Albee
  54. Play Sources
  55. Acknowledgements