| Catherine Filloux is an award-winning playwright who has been writing about human rights and social justice for the past twenty years. Her plays have been produced in New York and around the world. They include: Dog and Wolf (59E59 Theaters, NYC, 2010), Killing the Boss (Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC, 2008); Lemkin's House (Rideau de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2007; McGinn-Cazale Theatre & 78th Street Theatre Lab, NYC, 2006; Kamerni teatar 55, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2005); The Beauty Inside (New Georges, NYC and InterAct, Philadelphia, 2005); Eyes of the Heart (National Asian American Theatre Co., NYC, 2004); Silence of God (Contemporary American Theater Festival, WV, New Play Commission, 2002); Mary and Myra (CATF, 2000 and Todd Mountain Theater, NY, 2002); Arthur's War (commissioned by Theatreworks/USA, NYC, 2002); Photographs From S-21, a short play that has been produced throughout the world; Escuela del Mundo (commissioned by OSU, Columbus, toured 2006-2005). The Beauty Inside was translated into Arabic for a workshop at ISADAC in Morocco, 2004.
Ms. Filloux wrote the book and lyrics for Where Elephants Weep (Composer Him Sophy), a musical, which received its world premiere in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2008. She is the librettist for The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown (Composer Jason Kao Hwang), selected as a Critics Choice in Opera News, 2005; CD released by New World Records; premiere at Asia Society.
Awards include: New Generations-Future Collaborations Award (Mellon Foundation/TCG), PeaceWriting Award (Omni Center for Peace), Roger L. Stevens Award (Kennedy Center), Eric Kocher Playwrights Award (O'Neill), Callaway Award (New Dramatists), Fulbright Senior Specialist (Cambodia & Morocco), William Inge Center for the Arts Playwright-In-Residence, Thurber Playwright-In-Residence, Asian Cultural Council Grant, Winner Nausicaa Franco-American Play Contest, Rockefeller MAP Fund (for Southern Rep and Floating Box), 5-time Heideman Award Finalist (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Juror for 2004 MES International Theater Festival, Sarajevo, Core Writer of The Playwrights' Center, and New Dramatists alumna. Oral History Project: A Circle of Grace with Cambodian Women's Group, Bronx, New York. French-English Translation: Ubu Rep, NYC, and various periodicals. Eyes of the Heart was developed for Lifetime TV.
Ms. Filloux's plays are published by Playscripts, Smith & Kraus, Vintage and Prentice Hall. Her recent anthology Silence of God and Other Plays is published by Seagull Books, London Limited. Her articles have appeared in such periodicals as American Theatre, Manoa, and The Drama Review. She received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and her French Baccalaureate with Honors in Toulon, France. Ms. Filloux is a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders and has served as a speaker for playwriting and human rights organizations around the world. http://www.catherinefilloux.com. |
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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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NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 4 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From an American innocent's confrontation with government wiretapping (Listeners by Jane Martin), to an iconic detective's night dressed as Santa Claus (A Holmes Family Christmas by Judy GeBauer), to a woman interviewing applicants for the position of full-time lover (Passive Belligerence by Stephen Belber), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Double Date
Forward Motion
Hell and Back
A Holmes Family Christmas
Lights Out
Listeners
Oh, the Humanity
Passive Belligerence
Photographs from S-21
Temptation
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With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 2 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From the oldest living human with exactly ten minutes left before the end of the world (The Last Woman on Earth by Liz Duffy Adams), to marital advice from Mohandas Gandhi to a truck driver (Gandhi Goes Fishing by Al Sjoerdsma), to ethical discord involving world hunger and cat food (Aisle 17B by John Walch), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
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Aisle 17B
But Who's Counting
A Free Man in Paris
Gandhi Goes Fishing
God Like a Jumpstart
The John Philip Sousa Workshop
The Last Woman on Earth
The Lessons of My Father
The Miracle of Chanukah
Views
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With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 3 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From a Chanukah miracle at a North Dakota airport (The First Night of Chanukah by Sheri Wilner), to a couple living their entire marriage during a ten-minute drive (The Yellow Line by Kira Obolensky), to a day in the life of an all-American family on a top-secret Army base (School of the Americas by J. Holtham), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
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A Backward Glance
The Concorde Fallacy
The First Night of Chanukah
Information
School of the Americas
Sovereignty
White Trash
Wildlife
The Yellow Line
A Young Housewife
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With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 5 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From the ultimate pick-up line (Men Suck by J. Holtham), to a Restoration-style comedy about Aphra Behn (Aphra Does Antwerp by Liz Duffy Adams), to a summit of ex-wives at an open-casket funeral of their nearly-naked ex-hippie ex-husband (Invitation to a Funeral by Julie McKee), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
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Aphra Does Antwerp
The Beauty Inside (one-act)
Doppelganger
Everything Else
Going Out
Invitation to a Funeral
Joan of Arkansas
Letting Billy
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Men Suck
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NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 5.
A young girl in southeastern Turkey becomes the target of an honor killing. In a terrifying clash of value systems, the girl's traditionalist mother and her Westernized female lawyer struggle with one another to seal her fate.
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Two photos come to life in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. They are a young Cambodian woman and man whose photos were taken by the Khmer Rouge right after removing their blindfolds, moments before their execution.
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| "The play subtly challenges the audience to question its own role as consumers, and curators, of tragedy." |
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In the summer of 1875, Mary Todd Lincoln (the President's widow) resides in an insane asylum, sent there by her only living son. Her progressive friend Myra Bradwell (America's first woman lawyer) arrives to help Mary gain her release by exposing the injustices of her trial. But Myra's motives and Mary's sanity are both up for debate, as they grapple with their pasts and their perceptions of freedom and womanhood.
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| "Mary and Myra needs no special treatment to be a major theater piece. The writing is so exact that it is hard to imagine actors failing when reading the script. The success is in a tight script with every line on target." |
| --Grave Cavalieri, The Morgan Messenger (West Virginia) |
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A quirky comedy about a group of Amish and a group of transvestites stranded together at a motel during a blizzard. Jacky, a stressed-out businessman who cross-dresses on weekends, hopes to have a relaxing retreat with his friend Barbie -- only to discover he's never been closer to home.
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| "Takes place roughly where Witness meets La Cage Aux Folles...A playwright who can put transvestites and the Amish on stage together, and instead of making us laugh at them, makes us respect the humanity they have in common." |
| --Baltimore Sun |
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Short, 10-15 minutes
2 either (2 actors possible: 0-2 females, 0-2 males)
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NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 3.
Based on a true story: At a wildlife refuge in Cape Cod, thousands of common seagulls are poisoned in order to save their endangered cousin, the piping plover. In this play, one of these gulls spends its final moments alongside a plover, equally traumatized but chosen for survival.
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In 1944, Raphael Lemkin invented the word "genocide" and spent his life fighting to have it recognized as an international crime. But when the U.S. finally signs his law -- decades after his death -- the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides erupt and torment Lemkin in the afterlife. If genocide cannot be stopped, how will Lemkin rest?
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| "Ms. Filloux does not discount Lemkin's efforts, but she also makes grimly clear that good intentions mean nothing in the face of killers who revel in unrestrained savagery and have no reason to fear retaliation. Lemkin's House is rarely preachy, but it is a call to action nonetheless." |
| --Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times |
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When Thida arrives from Cambodia to join her brother and niece in the U.S., she refuses to speak and is completely blind, although her family's doctor cannot find any physical reason for her loss of sight. Thida suffers from a psychosomatic blindness developed by hundreds of Cambodian women after witnessing the atrocities collectively known as the "killing fields" in the chaos of Cambodia during the 1970s. As the family comes to understand her pain and her courage, Thida teaches her sophisticated American doctor the ways of the human heart. With humor, poetry, and gorgeous theatricality, East and West intersect in this story of survival and hope.
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| "A beautifully done one-act drama about the place where horror and grief meet." |
| --Anita Gates, The New York Times |
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2 females, 1 male
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NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 2.
Odile, a French-Algerian woman, vividly recollects her just-deceased father, through the eyes of her childhood self. How can you go on breathing when the man who taught you how is gone?
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Henri, a young painter, enjoyed early success in the roller-coaster New York art scene, but now he finds himself creatively blocked and increasingly alienated from his wife. He turns for inspiration to his reclusive, schizophrenic aunt, Aloise. Her drawings thrill and challenge Henri, tempting him with thoughts of selling her work as his own. Aloise is based on a Swiss "outsider artist" born in 1886, who spent most of her life in an asylum and whose work was exhibited by Jean Dubuffet as part of the Art Brut movement.
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| "Price of Madness is my kind of play. Should be yours, too, if you ever ponder the nature of art vis-a-vis mediocrity, sanity vs. insanity, or how commercialism can kill inspiration... A lot goes on in this layered, lyrical piece... The dialogue crackles with ideas..." |
| --Village Voice |
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4 females, 2 males
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A darkly comic menage of characters revolves around Salome, a woman who can't get out of bed. The country singer from Tennessee, the disturbed sitcom writer, Salome's fashionable mother, the polite New Yorker hoping to evict Salome, the young California Senator who can't stay out of her bed -- all of them are lost at sea, endearingly unable to cope with the world.
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