2011 Top 12 One Minute Monologue Competition Finalists

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  • Monologues They'll Remember You By: 80 Unique and Compelling Monologues That Leave a Lasting Impression

    • ASIN: 1974174859
    • ISBN: 1974174859
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Finding the right monologue can often be a frustrating task. Too frequently, monologue books rely on time-worn staples that have been heard a million times before, or are padded out with aimless, insipid pieces that often aren't even taken from actual plays. In Monologues They'll Remember You By you'll find 80 (40 male, 40 female) fresh, engaging m... [Read More]

  • A Raisin in the Sun

    • ASIN: 0679755330
    • ISBN: 0679755330
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and ma... [Read More]

  • The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2017

    • ASIN: 1575259133
    • ISBN: 1575259133
    • Manufacturer: Smith & Kraus

    Here you will find a rich and varied selection of monologues for men from plays which were produced and/or published in the 2016-2017 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... [Read More]

  • Best Womens Stage Monologues of 1990 (Best Women's Stage Monologues) (Best Women's Stage Monologues & Scenes)

    • ASIN: 0962272213
    • ISBN: 0962272213
    • Manufacturer: Smith & Kraus

    The best-selling first book in the Smith and Kraus women's monologue series. Including selections from: Elliot Loves by Jules Feiffer, Vital Signs by Jane Martin, Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell, Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson, Lettice & Lovage by Peter Shaffer, Woman From The Town by Samm-Art Williams.The Women's Book include selections ... [Read More]

  • The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2007

    • ASIN: 1575255871
    • ISBN: 1575255871
    • Brand: Brand: Smith n Kraus
    • Manufacturer: Smith & Kraus

    This latest in Smith and Kraus s popular series contains only material from published, readily available plays, all first published or produced in 2006 2007, and most appropriate for use by student actors and working actors in need of audition material. A partial list:RELATIVITY by Cassandra MedleyRESTORING THE SUN by Joe SuttonSHOUT! by Phillip Ge... [Read More]

  • The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel

    • ASIN: 0765378388
    • ISBN: 0765378388
    • Manufacturer: Tor Books

    Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut, The Calculating Stars, explores the premise behind her award-winning "Lady Astronaut of Mars." Winner 2018 Nebula Award for Best NovelWinner 2019 Locus Award for Best NovelHugo Finalist for Best Novel2019 Campbell Memorial Award FinalistLocus Trade Paperback Bestseller ListPublishers Weekly Best Books o... [Read More]

  • Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35

    • UPC: 884088968274
    • ASIN: 1480369624
    • ISBN: 1480369624
    • Brand: Harbison, Lawrence (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Applause

    Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for women from contemporary plays, all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35. Perfect for auditions or class. There are comic monologues (laughs) and dramatic monologues (no laughs). Most have a compelling present-tense action for actors to perform. A few are story monologuesand theyre gr... [Read More]

  • The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2019 (Applause Acting Series)

    • ASIN: 1538131552
    • ISBN: 1538131552
    • Manufacturer: Limelight Editions

    Renowned editor Larry Harbison brings together approximately one-hundred never-before-published women’s monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights and future stars, including Michael Ross Albert, Don Nigro, Daniel Damiano, M... [Read More]

  • Monologues for Teens: 60 Original Monologues to Stand Out, Inspire, and Shine

    • ASIN: 0998151319
    • ISBN: 0998151319
    • Manufacturer: Ben Rose Creative Arts

    This is the new book from the author of Scenes for Teens and Acting Scenes for Kids and Tweens. Monologues for Teens is a collection of 60 original monologues on a wide variety of topics. They are designed to help teenage actors reach, stretch and stand out from the crowd. Each individual piece is gender-neutral and may be performed equally well by... [Read More]

  • Black Theatre, USA: Plays by African Americans: The Recent Period, 1935-Today

    • ASIN: 0684823071
    • ISBN: 0684823071
    • Brand: Brand: Free Press
    • Manufacturer: Free Press

    This revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two new selections.This collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996.

  • The Ultimate Audition Book for Teens: 111 One-Minute Monologues (Young Actors Series)

    • ASIN: 1575252368
    • ISBN: 1575252368
    • Brand: Brand: Smith Kraus
    • Manufacturer: Smith & Kraus

    The monologue Book you have been waiting for! Award-winning material written specifically for today's teens. Challenging monologues in real language and real situations that are really fun to work on. By Janet Milstein

  • Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us

    • ASIN: 1101973242
    • ISBN: 1101973242
    • Brand: Kate Bornstein
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    “I know I’m not a man . . . and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one ... [Read More]

  • Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140441298
    • ISBN: 9780140441291
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his charact... [Read More]

  • 50 Fabulous Classical Monologues for Women

    • ASIN: 0573662738
    • ISBN: 0573662738
    • Brand: Brand: Samuel French, Inc.
    • Manufacturer: Samuel French, Inc.

    Fifty fabulous, fresh, new classical monologues for men await you within these pages. Everyone from the ancient Greeks to novelists of the 19th century is represented. They are not translated; they are adapted to the actor's needs and accessible to modern audiences. There are 25 dramatic and 25 comic-the largest collection of comic classical monolo... [Read More]

  • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton And Other One-Act Plays

    • ASIN: 0811202259
    • ISBN: 0811202259
    • Manufacturer: New Directions

    The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams's finest and most powerful work. They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater. Only one of these plays (The Purifica... [Read More]

  • William Shakespeare's Jedi the Last: Star Wars Part the Eighth (William Shakespeare's Star Wars)

    • ASIN: 1683690877
    • ISBN: 9781683690870
    • Manufacturer: Quirk Books

    Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialog by everyone from Luke Skywalker to Rose Tico.The Star Wars saga continues, with Bard of Avon providing some of the biggest shocks yet! Alack, the valiant Resistance mus... [Read More]

  • Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

    • ASIN: 0385473761
    • ISBN: 0385473761
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    From acclaimed playwright Anna Deavere Smith, a captivating work of dramatic literature and a unique first-person portrait of a pivotal moment in American history: the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Twilight is a stunning work of "documentary theater" that explores the devastating human impact of the five days of riots following the Rodney King verdict. F... [Read More]

  • Six Plays by Lillian Hellman

    • ASIN: 0394741129
    • ISBN: 0394741129
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    These six plays span nearly twenty years of theatre and display the range of Lillian Hellman's dramatic gifts. The Children's Hour (1934), her first play, was considered shocking at the time; it concerns the devastating effects of a child's malicious charge of lesbianism against two of her teachers. Days to Come (1936) is about the tragic consequen... [Read More]

  • Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

    • ASIN: 037570423X
    • ISBN: 037570423X
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic authority. He believes that the tendency t... [Read More]

  • Plays by and about Women

    • ASIN: 0394718968
    • ISBN: 0394718968
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Eight plays, all written in this century, in which leading women dramatists present their own pictures of their sex.

  • 2011 Top 12 One Minute Monologue Competition Finalists

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