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Karen Hartman is an award-winning playwright and librettist whose work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the N.E.A., the Helen Merrill Foundation, a Daryl Roth "Creative Spirit" Award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship to Jerusalem, a New Dramatists residency, and Core Membership at the Playwrights Center. Her plays, Goliath, Donna Wants, Gum, Going Gone, Anatomy 1968, Troy Women, ALICE: Tales of a Curious Girl, Leah's Train and others have been commissioned and/or staged by dozens of theaters including the Women's Project, NAATCO (National Asian-American Theater Company), McCarter Theater, ACT in San Francisco, Center Stage, the Magic Theater, and Dallas Theater Center, and are published by TCG, DPS, Backstage Books, NoPassport Press, and Playscripts, Inc. Recent projects include Goldie, Max, and Milk, a comedy with readings at Lincoln Center, New Dramatists, the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, and the Playwrights Center; and the musical book for A Sea Change, score by AnnMarie Milazzo, workshopped in 2009, directed by Leigh Silverman. NoPassport Press will publish Girl Under Grain in February, 2010. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. She has taught playwriting in a wide range of settings, including four years at the Yale School of Drama and currently leads independent writing workshops in New York. |
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$14.95 per book
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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Serious comedy with songs
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
2 females, 3 males (5-46 actors possible: 2-46 females, 0-42 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
On a hot spring day, Alice leaps from a stifling photographer's studio into Wonderland, a world where cakes talk, cats smoke, and little girls change size. In Part Two, she tries to repeat the adventure by stepping Through the Looking Glass. Alice's second journey is more inversion than fantasy, a place of fleeting memories and mismatched childhood dreams. An invigorating race through the brain of a curious girl, based on Lewis Carroll's Alice books.
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| "...what's so engaging about Hartman's Alice is the Carroll-ian playfulness and sweetly compelling thoughtfulness she's applied to the task.... In her Alice, curiosity is its own reward. And ours." |
| --Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Examiner |
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Comedy/Drama
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 11 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Celebrating and exploring themes from America's favorite pastime, The Baseball Plays: 7th Inning Stretch is a collection of short comedies and dramas from the Mile Square Theatre's annual event. From a couple arguing over the use of steroids (Off Base by Theresa Rebeck) to a priest's fight to preserve the abandoned lot where the local children play ball (Asphalt Green by Rogelio Martinez), to a marriage dissolved over fantasy baseball (Fantasy League by Lee Blessing), this collection captures the love, frustration, and nostalgia surrounding this beloved sport.
To purchase this book of 11 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Asphalt Green by Rogelio Martinez
A Boy A Ball A Bat by Melanie Marnich
Chin Music by Richard Dresser
Fantasy League by Lee Blessing
A Little Chatter by Ellen Margolis
Off Base by Theresa Rebeck
Sandlot Ball by Michael John Garces
The Save by Dano Madden
September Call-Up by Steven Dietz
Some Kind of Catch by Karen Hartman
Striking Out the Babe by Charlie Peters
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Drama
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
3 females, 2 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
When Ruth, a young doctor, skips her grandmother Leah's funeral, she ignites three generations of love and secrets. Her boyfriend walks out, her mother pays a devastating surprise visit, and Leah's harrowing childhood journey -- a family legend -- intertwines with Ruth's own. An ordinary train ride mysteriously takes Ruth through her Russian Jewish family's untold history, opening her to a fuller understanding of her mother, her grandmother, and herself.
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| "Well-written and well-performed drama about family and the importance of cherishing life and connections..." |
| --Anita Gates, The New York Times |
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 8-10 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called The Baseball Plays: 7th Inning Stretch.
When the Red Sox broke their curse and won the World Series, what happened next? 98-year-old Nathan experiences their last championship and attempts to find what else there is to live for now that they have won again. He meets Samantha Power, an accomplished journalist and fan, who is wrestling with similar questions. Together, they explore the pressing matters outside of the ball field and grapple with the life-and-death implications of becoming winners.
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Troy Women adapted by Karen Hartman
from the play by Euripides |
 
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Drama
Full-length, 65-85 minutes
9 females, 3 males (12-20 actors possible: 9-15 females, 3-5 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Hecuba and the women of Troy mourn and celebrate their city on the morning after its destruction. Together, they grieve the deaths of their husbands and children as they await their fates at the hands of their Greek captors. With modern elements adapted into Euripides' classic, Troy Women is a chilling, brutal, but accessible portrait of women during war.
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| "There were sharp wonders in the text. Hartman has found a new flow in the words of the distraught prisoners of this terrible war." |
| --New Haven Advocate |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 85-90 minutes
7 females, 4 males, 3 either
(11-14 actors possible: 7-10 females, 4-7 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
"Call me Isabel." A brainy teen with a chip on her shoulder seeks adventure and escape when she enrolls in High School on the High Seas. But soon Isabel, her new pal Quinn, and a rag-tag collection of classmates and crew find themselves swept off course in an extracurricular payback mission led by the boat's strange and formidable captain, Wild Kate. In this fast-paced contemporary adventure inspired by Melville's Moby Dick and the Deepwater Oil Rig disaster, these young sailors are forced to consider whether saving the ocean is worth risking their lives.
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