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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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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 85-100 minutes
3 females, 6 males (9-10 actors possible: exactly 3 females, 6-7 males)
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
A no-nonsense American family buys an old mansion in rural England, scoffing at warnings of a fierce and violent resident ghost. The spirited Americans -- Mother, Father, young Virginia, and her mischievous little twin brothers -- may have found their match in the equally spirited and clever ghost, who is determined to scare them out or worse. He's outnumbered, however, and in the end, kind-hearted Virginia helps him fulfill the terms of the legend that allow him release into the afterlife.
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| "It's a pleasure to take the kids to see something that diffuses fear with humor, such as The Canterville Ghost...definitely a ghost story with a difference...and a particularly fine one." |
| --Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News |
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Family drama
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
4 females, 5 males, 10 either
(15-30 actors possible: 4-15 females, 5-15 males)
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
Toby McGarvey returns from his first semester as a freshman at New York University, home for the holidays to the small town of Hopely, Minnesota. He expects to find Hopely preserved as he left it, but now in awe of him. A rude awakening: His girlfriend has dumped him for his brother, and his dad has published in the town paper the letters he wrote home, exaggerating his adventures in the big city and sneering about his hometown to cover up his profound homesickness. Toby is in for a discomfiting but humorous journey toward rediscovering his home. Can he rise above his boiling anger as he watches his brother's demonstrative affection toward his old girlfriend? Is he falling in love with his eccentric old grade school teacher? Can the secret life of Christmas be just as good as or even better than the sentimental Christmas everybody's supposed to want?
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Drama
Full-length, 130-145 minutes
5 females, 5 males (10-13 actors possible: exactly 5 females, 5-8 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Hope for Breakfast intertwines the beloved story of Little Women with what actually went on in the family life of the novel's author, Louisa May Alcott. Living in the intellectual hub of Massachusetts, circa 1840, young Louisa strives to keep her family together and safe from starvation, despite the harebrained schemes of her father, the Transcendentalist philosopher Bronson Alcott, who has sworn off working for money. At points of unbearable tension, Louisa retreats to an imaginary world -- the harmonious family life of her novel, Little Women -- whose publication ultimately leads to a precipitous and ironic rise in her real family's fortunes.
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Drama
Full-length, 100-110 minutes
7 females, 4 males (11-24 actors possible: 7-12 females, 4-12 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Under the guidance of their beloved mother, the four young March sisters -- tempestuous Jo, motherly Meg, shy Beth, and spoiled baby Amy -- struggle to keep their family going while Father's away in the Civil War. In this beautifully dramatized adaptation of the classic novel, even as privation, illness, and sibling rivalry cast their shadows, each girl strives to find her true self. (A one-act version of this play is also available.)
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| "The story, as revealed in Chamberlain's deft adaptation, is a warm tale of love, family, and individuality during the American Civil War." |
| --Peter Vaughan, Minneapolis Star and Tribune |
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Drama
Short, 35-45 minutes
7 females, 4 males
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Under the guidance of their beloved mother, the four young March sisters -- tempestuous Jo, motherly Meg, shy Beth, and spoiled baby Amy -- struggle to keep their family going while Father's away in the Civil War. In this beautifully dramatized adaptation of the classic novel, even as privation, illness, and sibling rivalry cast their shadows, each girl strives to find her true self. (A full-length version of this play is also available.)
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| "American playwright Chamberlain has adapted the story flawlessly." |
| --Maclean's |
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Drama
Full-length, 110-125 minutes
9 females, 5 males (14-21 actors possible: 9-14 females, 5-7 males)
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm tells the story of a wild and mischievous girl who eventually wins the hearts of not only her doting Aunt Jane but her severe Aunt Miranda. Rebecca leaves her widowed mother, her six brothers and sisters, and her beloved farm to go live with her aunts in town and get an education. A spirited girl, she gets herself into all sorts of scrapes, to her Aunt Miranda's disgust and dismay. At the heart of the play is a debate: whether or not children are basically good at heart, and whether or not it's a sin to be poor.
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| "Chamberlain captures the charm and intelligence of Wiggin's novel with a script that deftly combines humor, emotion and message... Today, the play has a gentle relevance as we compare the simplicity and sparseness of Rebecca's world to the complexity of our own." |
| --Peter Vaughan, Twin Cities Star Tribune |
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Young Jane Eyre adapted by Marisha Chamberlain
from the novel by Charlotte Bronte |
 
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Drama
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
30 females, 4 males (28-40 actors possible: 24-36 females, exactly 4 males)
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
In this adaptation of the first nine chapters of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece, 10-year-old Jane Eyre is driven from Gateshead Manor, where she lives as a despised poor relation, to a harshly disciplined boarding school where she nevertheless makes true friends, faces her past, and prepares herself for an independent future as a governess.
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| "Marisha Chamberlain's script remains close enough to the novel to retain the story's captivating strength, but the play isn't so wordy that it might lose a ten-year-old's attention. Chamberlain manages to slip in Jane's complicated family history without weighty expositions... Those unfamiliar with Bronte's story will have no trouble following the plot, and Jane Eyre's stalwart devotees, of which there are understandably many, will never feel cheated." |
| --Judith Lewis, Minnesota Daily |
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