| Anne Washburn's plays include Mr. Burns, The Internationalist, A Devil
At Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved
Strangers, The Ladies, The Small and a transadaptation of Euripides'
Orestes. Her work has been produced by 13P, Actors Theater of
Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed
Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The
Folger, London's Gate Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, NYC's Soho Rep,
DC's Studio Theater, Two River Theater Company, NYC's Vineyard and
Woolly Mammoth. Awards include a Guggenheim, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time
Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, and residencies at
MacDowell and Yaddo. She is an associated artist with The Civilians,
Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, and is an alumna of New Dramatists and
13P. Currently commissioned by MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep,
and Yale Rep.
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Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens, Volume 2 continues the Actor's Choice series with a brand-new selection of unique contemporary monologues. From hilarious comedies to moving dramas and everything in-between, this book has you covered. 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. Whether you're looking for a monologue for classwork, competitions, or auditions, you'll be sure to find a perfect fit in this collection.
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
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| "For the theater teacher who wants to challenge their students, Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens, Volume 2 is a strong addition to drama education reference collections, highly recommended." |
| --The Midwest Book Review |
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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 Festival 2011: The Complete Plays brings together all ten scripts from the 2011 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 35th annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This unique compilation features an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in the American theatre, from a couple who abandon a hectic existence in modern-day NYC to live in a careful recreation of 1955 (Maple and Vine), to a sister and brother left to fend for themselves with a stuffed frog and a rifle for company (Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them), to an immensely wealthy trophy wife who hijacks her personal assistant's sister-bonding weekend (Elemeno Pea). This unique and diverse compilation of plays is a must-have for anyone searching for challenging, captivating, and bold theater.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
BOB by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Chicago, Sudan by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
A Devil at Noon by Anne Washburn
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat
The Edge of Our Bodies by Adam Rapp
Elemeno Pea by Molly Smith Metzler
The End by Dan Dietz, Jennifer Haley, Allison Moore, A. Rey Pamatmat, and Marco Ramirez
Hygiene by Gregory Hischak
Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison
Mr. Smitten by Laura Eason
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| "The plays [...] deserve to be celebrated. [That] so many past Humana premieres have gone on to wider audiences and captured major awards is an extraordinary testament to Masterson, his colleagues, and their predecessors, and the reason so many of us keep coming back." |
| --Educational Theatre Association |
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Drama/Comedy
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 7 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From the biography of the world's first particle board comedian (Particle Board by Elizabeth Meriwether), to a hilarious lesson in guy talk (How to Speak Man by Sharyn Rothstein), to the heart-wrenching struggle of a couple trying to conceive (The Levee by Taylor Mac), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Cloudy by Michael Griffo
Drew Barrymore and Sigmund Freud Meet the Cookie Monster by Alex Broun
Falling Up by Trista Baldwin
How to Speak Man by Sharyn Rothstein
Izzy Icarus Fell Off the World by Aliza Goldstein
The Levee by Taylor Mac
Look, a Latino! by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas
October/November by Anne Washburn
Particle Board by Elizabeth Meriwether
Pissed Sister by Elizabeth Hemmerdinger
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Enigmatic comedy
Full-length, 95-105 minutes
2 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Lowell, an American on a business trip, is met at the airport by a beautiful colleague. They spend the night together and he thinks he's in one of those great American movies where you go to a foreign land and there's romance and adventure and the experience changes you. The next day at the office he discovers that he's not in one of those movies, he's in one of those foreign films where nothing is as it seems, where there is no moral, and most importantly: no subtitles.
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| "Welcome to Anne Washburn, an original new voice! The Internationalist is a new kind of play for the 21st century. Fresh, provocative, riveting, and more entertaining and satisfying than many long-running hits." |
| --Back Stage |
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$18.95 per book
NOTE: This book contains 6 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Collected for the first time in one volume are six inventive theater pieces created by Obie Award-winning theater company The Civilians. Based on the creative investigation of actual experience, and often intertwined with experimental cabaret, their pieces are boldly theatrical and always unique -- from a story about a Hollywood movie and a lost flock of geese (Canard, Canard, Goose?); to a tale about things lost and found, charting a musical landscape of loss (Gone Missing); to a dark ride through the landscape of American public culture, asking a thorny question: how do we know what we know when everyone in power seems to be lying? ((I Am) Nobody's Lunch).
To purchase this book of 6 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Canard, Canard, Goose? by The Civilians
Gone Missing by The Civilians
(I Am) Nobody's Lunch by The Civilians
The Ladies by Anne Washburn
Paris Commune by Steven Cosson and Michael Friedman
Shadow of Himself by Neal Bell
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| "The Civilians [is] one of the city's smartest and most original troupes." |
| --Time Out New York |
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 15-25 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 7.
In this lyrical coming-of-age story, 13-year-old David falls under the tutelage of 15-year-old Nikkie, an alluring older woman who seems to have quite a bit to teach him. Set at a street corner in 1982 in the East Village, scenes and monologues unfold the world of David and Nikkie's enigmatic relationship in this play about experience: how it creates you -- and how it destroys you.
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| "Washburn makes the nerve wracking seriousness of childhood very funny." |
| --Variety |
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Drama/Comedy
Full-length, 135-145 minutes
1 female, 2 males, 5 either (8-12 actors possible: 1-6 females, 2-7 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
The Trojan war is over. Orestes and Electra have killed their mother. The city wants them dead. Just when it seems like they have nowhere to turn, their best friend comes up with a plan... Ironic, desperate, humorous, and highly entertaining, this potent satire on the Oresteia myth brings this marvelous play to new life.
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| "You do not need a shred of knowledge about Greek literature to be carried away by the ebullient, sharp-tongued, constantly surprising and delightful Orestes." |
| --Anita Gates, The New York Times |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
6 females (6 actors possible: 0-6 females, )
$75.00 per performance; $18.95 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called The Civilians: An Anthology of Six Plays.
Writer Anne Washburn and director Anne Kauffman set out to explore the lives of infamous first ladies Elena Ceausescu, Imelda Marcos, Eva Peron, and Jiang Qing (a.k.a. Madame Mao). They met over gin and coffee to discuss their research and left the tape recorder running. A play about women and power as told through gossip, torch songs, historical analysis, spectacle, and damning transcription.
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| "...it's brashly entertaining. And it's full of moments of quirky insight." |
| --Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times |
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