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Kira Obolensky
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  • Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
  • Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
  • Great Short Plays: Volume 3
  • Hate Mail
  • Lobster Alice
  • Pleasure Cruise
  • Ten-Minute Plays from the Guthrie Theater: Volume 2
  • The Yellow Line
  • Kira Obolensky. Kira Obolensky's plays include Hate Mail, written with Bill Corbett; Lobster Alice (Jungle Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Stages Theater); and The Adventures of Herculina (Next Theater, Frank Theater). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the Kesselring Prize (for Lobster Alice). New work in progress includes Quicksilver (produced in 2003) and A Modern Home. A graduate of Williams College, Ms. Obolensky also attended Juilliard's Playwriting Program.
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    Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
    by Keith Aisner, Robert Alexander, Tanya Barfield, et al.
    Edited by Erin Detrick
    Foreword by Broadway casting director Kate Schwabe
      

    $14.95 per book

    Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men gives you an extraordinary array of cutting-edge new monologues, from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. Explore the work of today's most celebrated theatrical voices, including Naomi Iizuka, Mac Wellman, Tanya Barfield, Jordan Harrison, Tony Award� winner David Henry Hwang, and many more!

    Also in this series:
    Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
    Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens


    Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
    by Liz Duffy Adams, Robert Alexander, John Augustine, et al.
    Edited by Erin Detrick
    Foreword by Broadway casting director Kate Schwabe
      

    $14.95 per book

    Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women gives you an extraordinary array of cutting-edge new monologues, from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. Explore the work of today's most celebrated theatrical voices, including Naomi Iizuka, Rinne Groff, Jane Martin, Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and David Lindsay-Abaire, and many more!

    Also in this series:
    Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
    Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens


    Great Short Plays: Volume 3
    by Catherine Filloux, Judy GeBauer, Barry Hall, et al.
      
    Comedy/Drama
    Various durations
    Various cast requirements
    $9.99 per book

    NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.

    With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 3 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From a Chanukah miracle at a North Dakota airport (The First Night of Chanukah by Sheri Wilner), to a couple living their entire marriage during a ten-minute drive (The Yellow Line by Kira Obolensky), to a day in the life of an all-American family on a top-secret Army base (School of the Americas by J. Holtham), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.

    To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

  • A Backward Glance
  • The Concorde Fallacy
  • The First Night of Chanukah
  • Information
  • School of the Americas
  • Sovereignty
  • White Trash
  • Wildlife
  • The Yellow Line
  • A Young Housewife


  • Hate Mail by Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky   
    Comedy
    Full-length, 80-95 minutes
    1 female, 1 male
    $75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book

    Hate Mail is an epistolary play something like Love Letters, with two actors reading letters and other correspondence, but it's a little wilder and more hysterically funny. It tells the story of Preston, a spoiled rich kid who meets his match in Dahlia, an angst-filled artist. Their worlds collide when Preston sends a complaint letter that gets Dahlia fired from her job, and then there's no turning back. The play stays with their increasingly crazed correspondence as they move from hate to love, and then right back again.
    "Corbett and Obolensky drip sardonic, hilarious acid from their pens, picking apart their characters with enviously articulate and explosively funny letter-grenades."
    --Twin Cities Reader


    Lobster Alice by Kira Obolensky   
    Comedy
    Full-length, 85-95 minutes
    1 female, 3 males
    $75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book

    Alice Horowitz, coffee-bearing secretary, wants life to be interesting. John Finch, an animator at work on Disney's Alice in Wonderland, wants Alice. When the great and outrageous Salvador Dali arrives at the studio to work on a short animated film, life becomes curiouser and curiouser. Dali scanDALIzes the conservative Finch; Alice, coffee-bearing secretary, becomes Alice, girl in a rabbit hole; and Finch and Alice both experience the surreal vagaries of the human heart.
    "Fresh, bright, and irresistible!"
    --Christian Science Monitor


    Pleasure Cruise by Kira Obolensky   
    Absurdist drama
    Short, 14-20 minutes
    1 female, 2 males (3-7 actors possible: 1-6 females, 1-6 males)
    $35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book

    NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Ten-Minute Plays from the Guthrie Theater: Volume 2.

    In this absurdist parable, a man and a woman travel on a magical pleasure cruise, where every desire is granted -- until the pleasure in the cruise starts to wear off and a new vision of what life is presents itself.


    Ten-Minute Plays from the Guthrie Theater: Volume 2
    by Lee Blessing, Kevin Kling, Julie Marie Myatt, et al.
      
    Comedy/Drama
    Various durations
    Various cast requirements
    $9.99 per book

    NOTE: This book contains 6 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.

    Since its founding in 1963, the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis has pioneered the American regional theater movement, bringing to life both the traditional classical repertoire and a diverse body of new works. The ten-minute plays in this volume were commissioned by the theater for its Guthrie Experience summer acting conservatory. The Volume 2 anthology includes six plays by six outstanding playwrights, every one expanding the possibilities of the ten-minute form.

    To purchase this book of six plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

  • Fairy Tale by Tracey Wilson
  • In Darkness by Kevin Kling
  • The Joy of Having a Body by Julie Marie Myatt
  • The New New by Kelly Stuart
  • Pleasure Cruise by Kira Obolensky
  • The Roads That Lead Here by Lee Blessing


  • The Yellow Line by Kira Obolensky   
    Comedy/Drama
    Short, 10-15 minutes
    1 female, 1 male
    $35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book

    NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 3.

    Pearl and Buster get married. As they drive from the wedding to their final destination, their journey takes them through the entirety of their relationship -- from youth to middle age to old age.
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