The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1991 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880399016 ISBN 13: 9781880399019

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 1992

Synopsis

The follow-up to the best-selling The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1990. There are 54 brand-new monologues for women from plays originally produced during the 1991 theatrical season.

Including selections from: The Closer by Willy Holtzman, Same Old Moon by Geraldine Aron, Love Diatribe by Harry Kondoleon, The Tattler by Terri Wagener, I Stand Before You Naked by Joyce Carol Oates, Love Lemmings by Joe DiPietro.

About this title

About the Author:

Playwright/Editor JOCELYN A. BEARD, a veteran of NYU's film school and the Yale School of Drama, has edited almost forty monologue books for Smith and Kraus. Her Screenplay, Igor and the Lunatics, was made into a feature film and subsequently listed in Heavy Metal magazine as "One of the 10 Sleaziest Movies Ever Made!" Notwithstanding, Jocelyn lives in an old haunted house in the Hudson River Valley with her husband, Kevin Kitowski, their beautiful daughter, Blythe, and lots of dogs.

From Publishers Weekly:

These collections offer monologues--51 for actors, 54 for actresses--selected by Beard ( One Hundred Men's Stage Monologues from the 1980s ) from some of the better plays of 1991. Each volume contains an introduction by a veteran director, David Frank of the Wisconsin-based American Players Theater and Josephine Abady of the Cleveland Playhouse, offering useful suggestions for the choice and performance of audition monologues. Both collections display a good range of material in terms of age, dialect, ethnicity and class, tone and subject matter. The rhymed quatrains of David Hirson's La B ete and the blank verse of Miriam Hoffman's A Rendezvous with God in the men's volume and free verse by Ntozake Shange and Emily Mann ( Betsey Brown ) and Joyce Carol Oates ( I Stand Before You Naked ) in the women's volume add further variety. The playwrights represented are a distinguished lot, including Jon Robin Baitz, Christopher Hampton, Beth Henley, Harry Kondoleon and Romulus Linney. The depth of writing talent suggested by these excerpts is a hopeful sign for theater in the '90s, particularly for the actors and actresses likely to refer to these volumes.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1880399016
• ISBN 13: 9781880399019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98
• Editor: Beard Jocelyn A.