Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
by Keith Aisner, Robert Alexander, Tanya Barfield, 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 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: Scenes for Teens
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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
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
1 female (1-5 actors possible: 1-5 females, 0-1 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Kiki, Marcee, Michelle, Jethro, and Gretchen present their high school science fair projects: a treatise on Social Darwinism, a failed potato clock, the effect of Girl Scout cookie sales tactics on the rural poor, the effect of violin music on broccoli plants, and the hazards of nuclear energy. Twelve years later at the high school reunion, Social Darwinist Kiki is the emcee, and the only one of the original group in attendance -- but we find out, through simultaneous scenes, what has become of her former classmates' lives. Science Fair presents us with five offbeat kids, up close, warts and all, and lets us catch a glimpse of their future trajectory, daring us to take notice where, in most cases, society didn't. The play can be performed with 1 actress, or 5 actresses, or 4 actresses and 1 actor.
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| "Playwright Jeanmarie Williams examines the vagaries of high school in a very funny one-person show... The final scene of lonely and unloved Marcee at her lowest draws titters, but is also the play's most disconcerting moment." |
| --Martin Hernandez, LA Weekly |
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Comedy
Short, 35-45 minutes
5 females, 2 males, 3 either (10 actors possible: 5-8 females, 2-5 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Pete is a suburban high school boy who articulates his every painful existential musing. He finds no comfort from his violence-obsessed friend, Lionel, or from his many teachers who offer obscure, jargon-filled lectures on the meaning of life. After vowing to quit high school, Pete is abducted by a beautiful woman, Masha from Chekhov's The Three Sisters. She and her sister Olga force Pete to play Irina in their version of the play. Pete returns to high school with renewed purpose, to lead his teachers and classmates in a joyous Russian dance.
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| "In the loonily obstreperous To Moscow!, by Jeanmarie Williams, a modern-day Holden Caulfield is kidnapped by two madwomen, Masha and Olga, who force him to play Irina in their fantasy production of Chekhov's The Three Sisters. The material always surprises." |
| --LA Weekly |
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