Title:
The best men's stage monologues, 2016 / edited by Lawrence Harbison.
Author:
Harbison, Lawrence, editor.
Publication Information:
Hanover, NH : Smith & Kraus, 2016.
Call Number:
PN2080 .B44 2016
Abstract:
Here you will find a rich and varied selection of monologues for men from plays which were produced and/or published in the 2015-2016 theatrical season. Most are for younger performers (teens through 30s) but there are also some excellent pieces for older actors as well. Some are comic, some are dramatic. Some are short, some are long. All represent the best in contemporary playwriting. monologues from: Vincent Delaney, Max Baker, Tom Baum, David Meyers, Lloyd Suh, Richard Dresser, Scott Sickles, Audrey Cefaly, Don Nigro, Vanessa Garcia, Abby Rosebrock, Adam Kraar, Arlene Hutton, Sam Bobrick, Philip Dawkins, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Chad Beckim, Gam Graber, Christopher Chen, Jonathan Caren, Mark Roberts, Ron Riekki, Marja-Lewis Ryan, Emily Schwend, Eric Grant, Paul Lewis Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, Cassie Seinuk, Tanya Saracho, James McLindon, Celine Song, Chiara Atik, lee Blessing, Rebecca Gorman O'Neill, Michael Ross Albert, Elaine Romano, Mark Borkowski, Laura Hirchberg, Trish Harnetiaux, Libby Emmons, C.S. Hanson, Rosary Hartel O'Neill, Leah Tanako Winkler, Rinnie Groff, Roy Procter, Dominique Morisseau, Jeff Tabnick, Eleanor Burgess, Merridith Allen, Mark Gerrard, Tony Glazer, Nicolas Priore, Wendy MacLeod, Barry Ernst, Yussef El Guindi, Peter Ullian, Deb Margolin, Joshua James, Duncan Pflaster, Daniel Guyton, Lawrence Johnna Adams, Lawrence Carr, Brendan Gall, and Clare Barron.
ISBN:
9781575259079
Physical Description:
210 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Foreword / The art of bad men (2) / Because me (2) / Breach / Broken / Charles Francis Chan Jr's exotic oriental murder mystery / Closure / Composure (3) / Consider the ficus / Curse of the wolf man / The Cuban spring / Dido of Idaho / Dostoyevski (5) / Dream of a deer at dusk / Everything's free! / Eyes shut door open (4) / Fade / Faith / The feast / Five times in one night / For the loyal / The ghosts of us / The goddess of murderous rain / The grass is greenest at the Houston Astrodome (2) / Graveyard of empires / The head hunter / Her brother's keeper / How to get into buildings (2) / I am not an allegory / I could never live here / I love you, man / James Dean and the devil / Kentucky (2) / Kissed the girls and made them cry / L.A. deli / Le switch / Leveling up / Lights rise on grace / The lorelei (2) / Lottery play / Lunch with Mrs Baskin / Mutt / Need to know / New country / Night of the living dead / One in the chamber / The other thing (2) / Paris at dawn / A place that looks like Davenport / Reichenbach falls (2) / Right brutal (3) / Romeo Chang (2) / 77% / Settling the score / Skeleton crew / Something truly monstrous / Start down / A step beyond the rain (2) / Steve (2) / The substance of bliss (2) / Teenie / Things being what they are (2) / This is a test / Threesome (2) / The triumphant return of Blackbird Flynt / Turn 22 / Turquoise (2) / 2 very dangerous people sharing 1 small space / The underpants Godot (2) / Urine trouble now / The wakefield stories / Wide awake hearts (2) / World builders / You got older / Rights and permissions.
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