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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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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." |
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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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Comedy/Drama
Short, 10-20 minutes
3 females, 1 male, 2 either (8 actors possible: 3-7 females, 1-4 males)
$35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called 'Twas the Night Before...
Before the Before and Before That is an exploration of human origins and Christmas themes, featuring disembodied faces, a large, walking egg, and a dwarf narrator. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 'Twas the Night Before...)
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Seriocomic Monologue
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
1 male (1 actor possible: 0-1 females, 0-1 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Journalist. War Veteran. Cynic. Author. Ambrose Bierce invites audiences into the depths of his eventful life, lacing his tale with his sarcastic definitions from "The Devil's Dictionary." Rich with history, humor, and tragedy, Bierce tells us the tumultuous story of his life and times, from his experiences in the Civil War and his newspaper career, to his travels and amusing run-ins with famous public figures.
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| "Playwright Mac Wellman, who received an Obie Award for lifetime achievement in 2003, has sampled freely from Bierce's writings in his free-flowing, intellectually dazzling bio-drama." |
| --F. Kathleen Foley, Los Angeles Times |
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Cat's Paw
A Meditation on the Don Juan Theme
by Mac Wellman |
 
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Comedy
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
4 females
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
While visiting certain eminent public places in New York, three generations of women discuss the perils (erotic and political) of being female. Charged with wit and eccentricity, these mothers, daughters, and best friends strain against their bonds to one another as they peer down on the world from high perches.
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Comedy
Full-length, 60-80 minutes
7 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In the heady days before her prom, young Joan finds it hard to concentrate on anything but the upcoming dance, even as the front porch falls off her house and her mother struggles to unclog the kitchen sink. But soon, their relatively normal lives begin unraveling into alien territory, as Joan makes some startling discoveries about her family and the world.
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Dark (biting) comedy
Full-length, 90-120 minutes
6 females, 4 males (10-12 actors possible: exactly 6 females, 4-6 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
An adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel that preserves the Victorian tendencies of his writing while veering wildly into new vampire territory. As Seward, head of the asylum, and his close friend Van Helsing attempt to thwart the machinations of Dracula, Lucy seeks Dracula out and Mina begins succumbing to his spell. Wickedly clever language and an often nightmarish world combine to create a Dracula unlike it's ever been seen before.
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Comedy
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
7 females, 2 males (9-14 actors possible: 7-10 females, 2-4 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
A deliciously evil trio of girls cause a good girl to disappear at their swank Girls' School. As Lisa, Lissa, and Elyssa use their sinister powers to reduce their teacher to tears and convert the good to the bad, spontaneous combustions become increasingly frequent. Is it possible that the girls' made-up land of Vadoo is where everyone is disappearing to?
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| "Mr. Wellman builds his story through the steady accretion of surrealistic detail revealed in loops of nonsensical dialogue that makes irrational but gripping sense." |
| --Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times |
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Dark comedy
Full-length, 70-90 minutes
5 females, 2 males (7-11 actors possible: 5-6 females, 2-5 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In a world where the air's mustardy and the ocean is so polluted it looks like a bowl of custard, it's no wonder that Susannah's father was buried in a pile of radioactive chicken droppings at work. Or was he? Fed up with her greedy, vulgar, and insensitive family, wise young Susannah follows her dead father's advice and leaves to live with the crows.
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| "Eighty loopy minutes long, A Murder of Crows is containable in size, but joyously chaotic in substance, structure, story, and style; it's like opening a wristwatch box and finding one of Dali's melted jobs inside." |
| --Michael Feingold, The Village Voice |
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Comedy
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
3 females, 1 male
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Seven miles above the streets of Manhattan, where the moon is bright and the night is fair, three vampires circle over the metropolis, seeking prey and reminiscing about their long long long past and all things vampiric.
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 60-85 minutes
3 females, 5 males, 8 either
(11-41 actors possible: 3-31 females, 5-33 males)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately.
A collection of five Christmas-themed short plays from New York City's acclaimed Flea Theater. From a family sitting down to read "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" with unexpected results (Not a Creature Was Stirring), to elves rapping about bloody films (Holiday Movies), to an irreverent take on the story of Jesus' birth (Away in the Manger), these comedies and dramas take on the holiday season like never before.
To purchase this book of 5 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Away in the Manger by Roger Rosenblatt
Before the Before and Before That by Mac Wellman
Christmas Song by Len Jenkin
Holiday Movies by Elizabeth Swados
Not a Creature Was Stirring by Christopher Durang
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| "[Len Jenkin's Christmas Song is] elegantly written... A brief snapshot of a few lonely individuals in a boarding house, it's tender and heartfelt." |
| --Dan Bacalzo, Theatermania |
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