100 Great Monologues from the 19th Century Romantic and Realistic Theatres (Monologue Audition Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188039961X ISBN 13: 9781880399613

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Watershed and industrialization added a rich new dimension to theatre and gave birth to a powerful new generation of playwrights whose works are represented in this book which includes the best of Georg Buchner, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Nikolay Gogol, Freddrich Hebbel, Henrick Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, and Anton Chekhov.

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 Booklist:

The last in a set of three volumes from Smith and Kraus that brings together the best monologues from three consecutive eras, 100 Great Monologues from the 19th Century Romantic and Realistic Theatres is an authoritative source of audition pieces. In this anthology, which is divided into monologues for men and for women, editor Beard has gathered monologues from the works that best represent the heart of the Romantic and realistic movements, including Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Henrik Ibsen's The League of Youth, Heinrich Von Kleist's The Broken Jug, and Georg Buchner's Danton's Death. Actors will find monologues that challenge their abilities to reflect the passion and idealism of Romanticism and the starkness of the realists. Each piece is approximately two to four pages in length and is accompanied by a very brief synopsis of the setting and character. Caroline Andrew

About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 188039961X
• ISBN 13: 9781880399613
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Beard Jocelyn A.