One on One
The Best Monologues for Mature Actors
Applause Theatre Book Publishers
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2015
256 pages
978-1-4803-9716-3 (ISBN)
Description
While contemporary American culture may be fixated on youthful sex appeal, the truth is that the most complex and interesting characters in dramatic literature have been (and still are) those over 40 years old. Whether it's Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Halie in Buried Child or Eve in The Good Body, the richest characters are those over 40, whose wealth of experience often helps little when it comes to making the difficult decisions. This volume will mine the deep and fertile vein of world drama (with an emphasis on lesser-known contemporary work) as it relates to monologues for mature actors. The result is certain to be a surprising and enriching one for both the dedicated professional and the inquisitive amateur.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Hal Leonard Corporation
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4803-9716-3 (9781480397163)
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The Best Monologues for Mature Actors
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Stephen Fife (Santa Monica, CA) is the coeditor of Applause Books' Monologues for Kids 7-15. He was the first literary manager for Primary Stages, and he founded the Young Actors Workshop in Venice CA. His plays include Blue Kiss, Sizzle Sizzle, and Savage World, and he co-wrote (with Ralph Pezzullo) the play The American Wife. He has written arts features for the New York Times, New Republic, Village Voice and American Theatre.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE: Monologues for Women
- Medea
- A MidsummerNight's Dream
- Hippolytus
- Coriolanus
- The Duchess of Malfi
- The Conduct of Life
- A Cheever Evening
- Six Degrees of Separation
- The Last Time We Saw Her
- The Misanthrope
- The Old Settler
- A Bright New Boise
- Tea
- Appearances
- The Cherry Orchard
- Stops Along the Way
- Bee-Luther-Hatchee
- Catholic School Girls
- Occupant
- Intimate Apparel
- The Secret Mirror, a Collage Play
- Fefu and Her Friends
- Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Aunt Dan and Lemon
- Cloud 9
- Lives of the Great Waitresses
- All Over
- The Matchmaker
- Liberation Day
- The Good Body
- The Big Funk
- The Old Settler
- Buried Child
- Aunt Dan and Lemon
- The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
- The Glass Menagerie
- PART TWO: Monologues for Men
- Hippolytus
- Six Degrees of Separation
- Hamlet
- Bethany
- Pygmalion
- Prometheus Bound
- A Lesson from Aloes
- Hamlet
- Sight Unseen
- Doctor Faustus
- A Cheever Evening
- Savage World
- The Seagull
- Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
- Eurydice
- The Secret Mirror, a Collage Play
- Indians
- The Big Funk
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- The Ballad of Yachiyo
- Conversations with My Father
- Harm's Way
- Prelude to a Kiss
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Hamlet
- The Whipping Man
- Uncle Vanya
- Reunion
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- A View from the Bridge
- Detroit
- Eyes for Consuela
- Radio Golf
- Eddie Mundo Edmundo
- Savage World
- The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- The Misanthrope
- Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
- Long Day's Journey Into Night
- A Dream of Passion
- Indians
- Radio Golf
- Other People's Money
- Every Good Boy Deserves Favor
- The Price
- Play Sources, Permissions, and Acknowledgements
