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Robert Myers (www.robert-myers.com) is the author of more than a dozen stage plays, many of which deal with history and politics. His works include Atwater: Fixin' to Die, about George H. W. Bush's principal political advisor, Lee Atwater; The Lynching of Leo Frank (winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work, 1998-99), based on the case of a Jewish engineer from Brooklyn accused of child murder in Atlanta in 1913; Dead of Night, about the government-sanctioned murder of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in 1969; Heartland, a black comedy about white supremacists; Perfectly Clear, about Richard Nixon and the Watergate tapes; Against My Heart, about the British Shakespearean actress Fanny Kemble and her visit to a plantation in Georgia in 1839; Mesopotamia, about Gertrude Bell and the British occupation of Iraq after World War I; and Painting Persia, inspired by the 1840s expedition to Iran by the French painter Jules Laurens and geographer Xavier Hommaire de Hell. He has also written several screenplays and a number of articles on theatre and culture for The New York Times and other publications. He has a Ph.D. in literature from Yale University and has received two Fulbright Fellowships to teach playwriting and theatre at the University of Rio de Janeiro and in Amman, Jordan. He is currently an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing and the Director of the Center for American Studies at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon. |
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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/Drama
Full-length, 75-80 minutes
1 male, 1 either (1-2 actors possible: 0-1 females, 1-2 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Lee Atwater, George H. W. Bush's main political advisor, was no stranger to controversy. From his early days learning the ropes from Strom Thurmond, to introducing Reagan to the power of MTV, to his successful direction of Bush's 1988 presidential campaign (including the notorious Willie Horton ads), Atwater was simultaneously reviled and revered -- depending on whether he was on your side or not. A one-man tour de force about an immensely clever, wickedly funny, and ruthless kingmaker's journey -- from blues-loving frat boy to brain cancer victim confronting a lifetime of Machiavellian tactics.
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| "Fixin' to Die is a fact-filled, 75-minute romp through Atwater's personal and political life. Lee Atwater of Fixin' to Die is a complex, sympathetic and -- dare we say it -- likable character." |
| --Stephen Nunns, American Theatre |
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Drama
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
2 females, 10 males (12-26 actors possible: 2-5 females, 10-21 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
When Mary Phagan, a white child-laborer at a pencil factory in Atlanta, is found murdered there in 1913, Leo Frank becomes the primary suspect. Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jewish engineer who managed the factory, is accused of the crime by the factory's African-American janitor, who also accuses Frank of sexual involvement with female workers. Though Frank was almost certainly innocent, he is convicted and sentenced to death, amid a brewing storm of hatred and mistrust from the community. When the sympathetic Georgia governor grants a reprieve, a gang breaks into the prison, kidnaps and then lynches Frank. Many years after this tragic story has unfolded, Frank's former office boy steps forward to bear witness to what he saw...
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| "The Lynching of Leo Frank takes off from a case history that, even in bare factual outline, is compelling enough... Myers uses documents of the time and his own mix of composite characters to show that this case was filled with layer after layer of deep-rooted prejudice. [It] bristles with questions that present a challenging, complex view of the crime." |
| --Richard Christiansen, The Chicago Tribune |
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