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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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Gold in the Bones
Three haunted pirate tales by Washington Irving
adapted by Eric Coble |
 
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Drama
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
3 females, 3 males, 29 either
(6-32 actors possible: 3-32 females, 3-32 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Peter De Groodt, the only surviving member of Captain Kidd's terrifying crew, invites us to follow him and discover where all his pirates' ill-gotten gold is buried... while telling us of the cruel fates that met the men and women who sought it out before us. Guests From Gibbet Island, Wolfert Webber, and The Devil and Tom Walker present three thrilling forgotten tales of dreams, madness, greed, and redemption in the distinctive Washington Irving style.
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Humana Festival 2006: The Complete Plays
30th Anniversary Edition
by Liz Duffy Adams, Adam Bock, Eric Coble, Dan Dietz, et al.
Edited by Adrien-Alice Hansel and Julie Felise Dubiner
Foreword by Marc Masterson |
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$19.95 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Humana 2006: The Complete Plays collects all ten plays produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville during the 30th anniversary season of the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The seven full-length plays and three ten-minute plays in this anthology encompass many of the most eclectic and exciting new voices in theater today -- from a technology-reliant man learning to listen to a planet on the verge of apocalypse (Natural Selection); to a left-leaning American citizen's doomed chance to give the President an earful (Listeners); to a group of Depression-era men who put on a fundraiser, and in the process find themselves transformed by more than just the ladies' costumes they don (Act A Lady). Alternately painful, subversive, hysterically funny, and poignant, these plays ask you to engage with characters and worlds you think you know, and then look again with new eyes.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Three Guys and a Brenda by Adam Bock
Natural Selection by Eric Coble
Low by Rha Goddess
Act A Lady by Jordan Harrison
Sovereignty by Rolin Jones
Listeners by Jane Martin
Hotel Cassiopeia by Charles L. Mee
The Scene by Theresa Rebeck
Six Years by Sharr White
Neon Mirage by Liz Duffy Adams, Dan Dietz, Rick Hip-Flores, Julie Jensen, Lisa Kron, Tracey Scott Wilson, and Chay Yew
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| "If you have any doubt that regional theatre in America is vital and thriving, then you missed this year's Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky." |
| --Newsweek |
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Drama/Comedy
Full-length, 80-100 minutes
8 either (5-25 actors possible: 0-25 females, 0-25 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Obosan, a traditional Japanese priest, steps forward from the darkness. He explains that where we now see a grove of trees, bushes, and grassy hills, was once the village of Kogisu -- and Obosan was once the village priest. Where did all the people go? What happened to the homes and shops and pathways? Obosan promises to answer all of these questions in four tales as he takes us back in time hundreds of years to watch the supernatural history -- and ultimate destruction -- of an entire village.
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| "Extraordinary characters... A fantastic way for parents to open the cultural door and show how different -- and how very much alike -- people are." |
| --The Ellsworth Weekly (Maine) |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 110 minutes
2 females, 4 males (6-9 actors possible: 1-6 females, 2-7 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
We're in the very near future, where technology rules supreme and the Culture Fiesta Theme Park needs to restock the natives of the Native American Pavilion. So curator Henry Carson must venture into the wastes of North America to find a genuine Indian. Between his wife's blogging, his son's packed schedule at virtual school, the unearthly rain, and his Indian turning out to be very different than he expected, will Henry have time to notice the world's sliding towards apocalypse?
(This play is also available in the collection Humana Festival 2006: The Complete Plays.)
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| "Provocative ideas abound in this comically fired end-of-the-world satire." |
| --American Theatre |
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Drama
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
2 females, 3 males (5-9 actors possible: 0-9 females, 0-9 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Edgar Allan Poe stands alone in the flickering darkness of his mind, trying desperately to convince himself -- and us -- that he's not mad. The spell he weaves brings us a highly theatrical adaptation of four tales Poe himself considered his best: "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Tell-Tale Heart." Enter the world of Poe and check your heartbeat at the door.
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| "Gripping and ghoulish... The atmospheric production seamlessly blends a quartet of Poe's immortal tales and poems into a chilling excursion into all-consuming fear." |
| --Montgomery Times Daily |
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 45-55 minutes
2 females, 3 males, 4 either (4-9 actors possible: 0-9 females, 0-9 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Computer magnate Gill Bates has the greatest software company on earth, billions of dollars, and more power than he ever dreamed of...but there's still something missing in his life: children. So he builds a little robot named Pinocchio to keep him company. But this mischievous little bundle of microchips has his own headful of ideas about how to enjoy life, including following two shadowy characters into worlds of increasing consumer frenzy. What follows is a wacky, charming 21st-century retelling of the 19th-century classic about what it takes to become a real human being, for both father and child.
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| "A fast-paced action comedy that's a blast to watch...a charming, delightful diversion." |
| --The Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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Drama with music
Full-length, 60-70 minutes
2 females, 7 males, 25 either
(9-34 actors possible: 2-27 females, 7-32 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Twelve-year-old Raymond George is trying to find his way between his Native American background and the U.S. culture engulfing him. His grandmother tells him that another child once faced this divide, and rather than choosing a side, was able to find a circle. So begins this dramatically epic re-telling of young Sacagawea's life as she's kidnapped from her Shoshoni home and ultimately becomes part of the most daring American journey of the century, joining Lewis and Clark on their 1,500 mile trek to the Pacific.
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| "The groundbreaking Sacagawea distills history from legend... The music has an emotional quality and strikes a chord that goes right up the spine." |
| --The Oregonian |
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Drama
Full-length, 90 minutes
1 female, 2 males (1-10 actors possible: 1-10 females, 0-9 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
A powerful drama exploring the life of Sojourner Truth, a woman searching for her identity in a country ripped apart by Civil War. As she walks thousands of miles, physically and emotionally, her evolving faith and progressive ideas send shock waves through the nation that continue to reverberate. Through music, movement, and drumming, her story comes to life -- from her birth as a slave, watching her brothers, sisters, and even her own children sold away; to her meetings with Lincoln and her explosive speeches across the Union; to her final crisis of faith ... her own mortality.
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| "The play has beautiful intensity and eloquence. We need to learn the story it tells." |
| --The Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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Satirical musical comedy
Full-length, 80-95 minutes
8 females, 8 males (10-30 actors possible: 5-15 females, 5-15 males)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
The Astounding Krispinsky! The All-American Feminem! The Amazing Screaming Vegan, the Formerly Amazing Bob, and Mr. McBuffer the Renegade Puppet! With American culture and politics growing increasingly surreal, Actors Theatre of Louisville commissioned seven marquee playwrights to create a variety-show satire in the grand old vaudeville tradition -- from ventriloquists to contortionists to Lady Liberty on a trapeze. With songs!
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| "A smart, funny show that channels the neurotic anxiety of a culture crumbling onto its own ideals and converts it into humor and laughs... Uncle Sam's liberates itself from political mockery to true satirical commentary. Vaudevillian in nature, the show goes beyond random acts of entertainment and develops a cohesive idea and psychological picture of our time." |
| --Frank Kuzler, NYTheatre |
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