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$14.95 per book
Looking for the perfect monologue? Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens is here to help. From hilarious comedy to cutting-edge drama and everything in between, an exciting selection of monologues is at your fingertips. 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. From classwork to competitions to auditions, this book has you covered!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
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| "This is an excellent monologue book for middle and high school students with applications for competition as well as use in drama, speech, or English classes." |
| --Terrilyn Fleming, The Midwest Book Review |
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Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
by Liz Duffy Adams, Robert Alexander, John Augustine, Stephen Belber, et al.
Edited by Erin Detrick
Foreword by Broadway casting director Kate Schwabe |
 
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$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
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
4 females, 3 males (6-48 actors possible: 3-25 females, 3-23 males)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately.
An exceptional and eclectic collection of twenty short plays that wends its way through various scenes of urban life. Along the way there are unlikely weirdos accosting people on subways in The Subway, a militant store clerk pushing environmental reform in Pamper Island, a man grappling with his own racism in The Three Roses, and a woman who wears a wedding dress to a wedding that isn't hers in Temporary People, Part Two: Rebecca Ruth. With wit and sensitivity, Augustine's Confessions explores the terminally vague and toxically vogue members of society.
To purchase this book of 20 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
The Opening
Gen - X
The Subway
Temporary People, Part I: Siobhan
Nicole and Jane
Ghost
Pamper Island: A Grocery Store Comedy
The Three Roses
Window of Opportunity
Kept Boy
Megaphone Man
The Censorship Play
Temporary People, Part II: Rebecca Ruth
The Closing
Scab Writes a Song!
Promesa
Innocent Victims
Maurice
Sarabande
Mrs. Smith Plays the Piano
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| "John Augustine's characters cling to language like alcoholics to a martini glass. Insecure, endless verbalizing and very funny, they hope to assuage ambivalence with words; their dialogue tends less to the absurd than to a brittle epigrammatic gleam." |
| --The Village Voice |
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Comedy
Short, 7-9 minutes
1 female, 3 males (4 actors possible: 1-4 females, 0-3 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
A writer is typing a play for a contest. Though it begins as a story about his dueling parents, with the help of his lover, it becomes a reflection of his current happiness. As he rewrites the play, the "characters" on the page "act out" on the stage.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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Comedy
Short, 30-40 minutes
2 females, 3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Evelyn Biddle Carver is a status-obsessed real estate agent giving a party for the Fourth of July. While her husband Graham drinks and makes pleasantries, and a British nanny deals with unruly twins offstage, Evelyn waits breathlessly for the arrival of her new neighbor, Oscar-winning actor Lance McCambridge. When it turns out that Lance is out of town, and "only" his wife can make it, Evelyn tries to make do with the celebrity of her other guest, the black author Jonathan Alexander and his white lover Benjamin -- but his blackness and gayness are maybe not her favorite thing. And it is hard to face life, and a party, when you were expecting to be seen with a movie star.
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Comedy
Short, 12-15 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
Kenny goes home to see his mother, trying to ignore the loud man with a megaphone who accompanies him everywhere screaming, "You are worthless!" His great aunt Cora is 102 years old and just wants to die, his mother just wants everyone to get along, and Kenny just wants to get out of there.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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Dark comedy
Short, 35-40 minutes
2 females, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
Mrs. Smith is a funny yet scary alcoholic woman who teaches piano. But something is odd on this particular day. When adult piano student Donna arrives for her lesson she finds "Boy" in a giant bird cage and Mrs. Smith in rare form. Is there no escape?
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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Comedy
Short, 7-10 minutes
2 females, 1 male (3 actors possible: 2-3 females, 0-1 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
To help herself grieve for the death of a friend, Jane goes to a cafe with her friend Nicole. However, she soon learns that although Nicole fancies herself "sensitive" and an artist, these are merely shallow labels to cover up her self-involved nature.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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Comedy
Short, 4-6 minutes
4 females, 3 males (6-9 actors possible: 3-5 females, 3-4 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
A snappy quick opening to introduce the style of the play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life and its colorful characters to audience. To be used with other plays from collection in order to "bookend" the evening.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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Comedy
Short, 8-12 minutes
2 females, 1 male (3 actors possible: 0-3 females, 0-3 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
An overbearing, ecologically correct check-out clerk bullies and harasses a young mother for buying Pampers plastic diapers on Earth day. Luckily, the woman is rescued from the clerk by another customer standing behind her in line. It seems like her day of activist lectures is over, but is she in for more of the same?
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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Drama
Short, 5-7 minutes
2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
Jamie Rodriguez, a young man in his early 20s arrives late to his meeting with Frank, an older man concerned about Jamie's life choices. As he talks with Frank, Jamie "philosophizes" about life, death, loneliness, and being used.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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Comedy
Short, 13-16 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
While being served TV dinners (still frozen) by his beer drinking mother and his potty mouth father -- Scab plots his escape from his crazy parents with a pathetic dream of becoming a rock star, writing a hit song and leaving home.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 6-8 minutes
1 female
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
A temporary worker, Siobhan is tired of using self-help books and spirituality to "cure" herself. Though verbally explosive on the outside, deep down, she is a fragile soul who is frightened of being invisible.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 8-10 minutes
1 female
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
Entering in a wedding dress at the Pierre Hotel bathroom, putting on her lipstick and forgetting her pearls, an energetic and very verbal Rebecca Ruth shares every thought in her head and eventually asks us, "Do you think it was inappropriate of me to show up at me sister's wedding in a wedding dress?"
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 3-5 minutes
1 female, 1 male (2 actors possible: 0-1 females, 1-2 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
In an attempt to justify and explain his own racism, a Caucasian or Asian man talks about his experience of feeling frightened upon entering an all black bar. Throughout the story, a woman of color plays a voice in his head, helping him figure it all out.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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