Title:
The best women's stage monologues. 2018 / edited and with a foreword by Lawrence Harbison.
Author:
Harbison, Lawrence, editor, writer of foreword.
Publication Information:
Hanover, NH : Smith and Kraus Publishers, [2018]
Call Number:
PN4305.M6 A17 2018
Abstract:
Here you will find a rich and varied selection of monologues for women, most of which are from plays which were produced and/or published in the 2017-2018 theatrical season. Many are for younger performers (teens through 30s) but there are some excellent pieces for older women as well. The age of the character is indicated in each monologue, but you will find that many may be done by actors of different ages. Some are comic, some dramatic. Some are rather short, some rather long. All represent the best in contemporary playwriting.
ISBN:
9781575259253
Physical Description:
202 pages ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Actually (2) / Anna Ziegler -- Airness / Chelsea Marcantel -- All the rage / Joshua James -- Amy and the orphans / Lindsey Ferrentino -- And then they fell / Tira Palmquist -- Animal (3) / Clare Lizzimore -- Apropos of nothing / Greg Kalleres -- The arsonists / Jacqueline Goldfinger -- The art of the fugue (4) / Don Nigro -- Baby screams miracle / Clare Barron -- Bad news / Joshua James -- Be here now / Deborah Zoe Laufer -- Blood at the root (2) / Dominique Morisseau -- Bloodletting / Boni B. Alvarez -- Chasing the storm / Sandra A. Daley-Sharif -- Click / Jacqueline Goldfinger -- Cowbird (2) / Julie Marie Myatt -- Cry it out (2) / Molly Smith Metzler -- District merchants (2) / Aaron Posner -- El nogalar / Tanya Saracho -- Enfrascada / Tanya Saracho -- Fire in dreamland / Rinne Groff -- Everything is wonderful / Chelsea Marcantel -- Fernando / Steven Haworth -- Flying leap / Anton Dudley -- Happy birthday, Mom / Meghan Gambling -- Hippopotamus / Libby Emmonds -- The homeless secretary / Gerry Sheridan -- How to transcend a happy marriage / Sarah Ruhl -- Hungry / Kayla Cagan -- Hurricane; or clap your hands if you remember Tower Records / Brooke Berman -- In service of Venus / Anna Wilcoxen -- Invincible / Torben Betts -- Kidnap road (2) / Catherine Filloux -- Kiss / Guillermo Calderón -- Kitchen sink drama / Andrew Biss -- Kodachrome / Adam Szymkowicz -- The lacy project (2) / Alena Smith -- Lost and guided (2) / Irene Kapustina -- Last gas / John Cariani -- Look at me (ruff, ruff) / C.S. Hanson -- Man & wife (2) / Emma Goldman-Sherman -- The man who liked Dick / Andrew Biss -- Monster / Sam Graber -- Napoli, Brooklyn / Meghan Kennedy -- The other genius / Steven Haworth -- Ouija / Maura Campbell -- The Parisian woman / Beau Williamson -- Pipeline (3) / Dominique Morisseau -- The problem of verisimilitude / Jeff Tabnick -- The reckless season / Lauren Ferebee -- Roadkill (2) / Karen JP Howes -- The role / A.J. Ciccotelli -- Saugerties (2) / Susan Eve Haar -- The secret of life / David Simpatico -- Slipped / Meghan Gambling -- Somebody's daughter / Chisa Hutchinson -- Solstice party! / Susan Soon He Stanton -- Space girl / Mora V. Harris -- Speechless / Greg Kalleres -- A step beyond the rain (2) / Merridith Allen -- State of the art / Deborah Savadge -- Suburban nightmares / Dana Leslie Goldstein -- Sweat / Lynn Nottage -- Taking back Halloween / Cayenne Douglass -- Tania in the getaway van / Susan Bernfield -- Tell Hector I miss him / Paola Lázaro -- A time for everything / Martha Patterson -- This is how you got me naked / Catherine Weingarten -- Three ladies of Orpington (3) / Daniel Guyton -- Turn! Turn! Turn! / Bara Swain -- Vino veritas (2) / David MacGregor -- Washer/dryer / Nandita Shenoy -- Women in jeopardy / Wendy MacLeod.
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