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Brighde Mullins has had plays produced in London, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. They include: Pathological Venus, Increase, Topographical Eden, Meatless Friday, Baby Hades, and many others. Her book of poems is called Water Stories. Awards include a Whiting Foundation, an NEA, the Jane Chambers, and the Will Glickman. She was born in Camp LeJeune, North Carolina and was raised in Las Vegas. She studied at the University of Nevada, Yale University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Ms. Mullins is the Director of the MFA Writing Program at the California Institute for the Arts, and she lives in Los Angeles.
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$14.95 per book
Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women 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, Rinne Groff, Jane Martin, Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and David Lindsay-Abaire, and many more!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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Epic Tragicomedy
Full-length, 120-125 minutes
6 females, 9 males (12-15 actors possible: 5-6 females, 7-9 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
It's the mid-1980s, just when the Human Genome Project is getting underway. After being dumped in the desert by her military-minded dad, Tara goes on the lam to escape her dysfunctional family, and bumps into a brilliant symmetry-obsessed geneticist who also happens to be a deadbeat dad and former heroin addict. As this unlikely couple tries to find some small salvation in each other, Tara's family is forced to examine their troubling past. Drawing on evolutionary psychology and Neo-Darwinian thought, this is a comic play about tragic personalities -- will they be able to move forward into the future?
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| "Thankfully, the references to Darwinian theory are not forced down your throat. The play is not a lesson in evolutionary psychology, but a good yarn, with occasional allusions to the moral ambiguities thrown up by Darwinian thinking...the play will help to answer those critics who have accused evolutionary psychology of being inherently right-wing...but this is not some simple PR job either. The dark side of evolutionary thinking is not skirted, but exposed in agonizing clarity." |
| --Dylan Evans, The Guardian (London) |
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Black comedy
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
4 females, 3 males (5-7 actors possible: 3-4 females, 2-3 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Anne Marie has an epiphany on the subway when she reads this poster: "No One Ever Remembered a Great Accountant: TEACH." She quickly decides to ditch her lucrative advertising career, and dreams of pursuing a more meaningful life of teaching inner-city high school students. But despite her over-qualifications, a lack of teaching credits lands her at Staten Island Community College. Armed with enthusiasm, she throws herself into her work, but an insanely unruly student and an indifferent department begin to upend all of her good intentions. How long can she hold out?
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| "...the interplay of these characters is fascinating to watch as they hurtle about, striking sparks at every clash." |
| --The Phoenix (Providence, RI) |
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