| Robert Alexander is the author of 29 plays, including Servant of the People, I Ain't Yo' Uncle, A Preface to the Alien Garden, and The Last Orbit of Billy Mars. His plays have been produced by Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, the Mark Taper Forum, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Hartford Stage, San Diego Repertory Company, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Mr. Alexander has received grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has a B.A. from Oberlin College, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa where he was a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow. |
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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
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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
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Fantasy
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
3 females, 3 males (5-6 actors possible: exactly 3 females, 2-3 males)
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
On her wedding night, Nava discovers that her husband, while lacking genitalia, is able to telepathically make love to her -- but soon after, he disappears mysteriously through the door. Ten years later, their daughter Lava is beginning to discover the strange powers she has inherited. When she reaches adulthood, she finds she can conquer and leave any man she wants. Until she meets David, who's different from the rest. Or is he?
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Drama
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
1 female, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
Two neo-Nazi skinheads kidnap a black attorney and his white wife, torturing and threatening to kill them. When the diary of a dead woman connects one of the skinheads to one of the captives, a destructive explosion of family secrets is unleashed, in this terrifying descent into America's heart of darkness.
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Drama
Full-length, 90 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
Rita Mae's love once took Billy Mars to the outer limits, and he wants that back. Billy follows Rita Mae from L.A. to St. Louis, where she lives with her invalid mother and disturbed brother Wendell in a house awash with the noise of the nearby freeway. Despite her avowed interest in women, Rita Mae begins warming back up to Billy. But Wendell is ready to start a fight. Before long, old family secrets are stirred up, with violently disastrous consequences for Billy, as well as the family he has come to visit.
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Historical drama
Full-length, 120-155 minutes
3 females, 10 males (13-18 actors possible: 3-5 females, 10-13 males)
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
This epic play traces the triumphant rise and tragic fall of Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party from 1966 through the late 1980s. Huey rises as a man of the people, but ultimately succumbs to cocaine addiction and the dirty tricks orchestrated by the FBI.
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| "Robert Alexander has penned a powerful, multifaceted portrait of one of the more complex figures of our time, Huey P. Newton...piecing together a rich, moving, cautionary tale..." |
| --Jack Helbig, NewCity Chicago |
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Tragicomedy
Full-length, 70-90 minutes
2 females, 2 males, 1 either (5 actors possible: 2-3 females, 2-3 males)
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
An over-the-top jazz poem erupts inside the mind of Jack Booker, an African-American writer in the middle of a nervous meltdown. His wife Brenda is twenty years pregnant with his dreams and his insanity, and is beginning to wonder if the baby will ever drop. Jack imagines he is the late great jazz percussionist Willie Bobo, accompanied and possessed by a wild, shifting rhythm. His expectant wife, his demanding father, and his seductive white mistress join in the relentless drumming, as the violence, physical comedy, and verbal high jinks build to a devastating climax.
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| "Alexander's writing is as gutsy and soulful as the best blues and jazz out there..." |
| --Tim Sauers, Chicago Gay Magazine |
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