One on One: Playing with a Purpose
Monologues for Kids Ages 7-15
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2013
248 pages
978-1-4803-5497-5 (ISBN)
Description
Kids of today face a different world - and a different set of challenges - then did the children of even 15 years ago. Playing with a Purpose features a collection of monologues that reflects these new attitudes and circumstances. Highly diversified in its view of the family and the child's place in the world, the monologues have been chosen from several sources: from contemporary playwrights and screenwriters; from YouthPlays, a new company that specializes in publishing cutting-edge plays for the youth market; and from such conservatories for young actors as The Playground, the Los Angeles-based training center run by Gary Spatz, the leading acting coach for performers ages 6 to 16. "Playing with a purpose" is an idea that arose from Fife's work with young actors over the course of several decades.
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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
978-1-4803-5497-5 (9781480354975)
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05/2013
Applause Theatre Book Publishers
€16.50
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Persons
Stephen Fife, MFA, (Santa Monica, CA) has written extensively about actor training for the New York Times, Village Voice, American Theatre, and many other publications; he has also worked with kids as an acting teacher/coach, writing teacher, and stage director over a period of 37 years, in a variety of different formats and programs in the New York City and Los Angeles areas. For the last five years, he has worked directly with kids in his company, the Young Actors Workshop., Bob Shuman, MFA, (New York, NY) is the owner of the Marit Literary Agency and the theater website Stage Voices, as well as a publisher, a playwright, and currently a professor at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx. Shuman is coeditor of Duo!: The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st Century, and more., Eloise Rollins-Fife is a student at the Archer School For Girls., Marit Shuman (New York, NY) attends the Horace Mann School.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Monologues for Girls
- Amy's Super-Amazing Incredible Makeover
- Antigone
- Arcadia
- Aria for a Saxophone
- Black Sheep
- Boots
- City in a Strait
- Dad
- The Diary of Anne Frank (based on the book Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl)
- Dog People
- The Effect of Gamma Rays On Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
- Eyes Wide Open
- Formaldehyde
- Geek
- Going Home
- Hamlet
- Hamlet
- Hollywood Arms
- The Iliad
- The Iliad
- Inconsolable
- "In the Land of My Birth" from No Word in Guyanese for Me
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- Lemonade
- Maricela de la Luz Lights the World
- Maricela de la Luz Lights the World
- The Member of the Wedding
- Mini's Yard Sale
- My Choice
- My Life So Far
- Night Train to Bolina
- No Such Cold Thing
- Once and for All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen
- The Outcast
- The Permian Extinction
- Pretty for an Asian Girl
- The Rimers of Eldritch
- Romeo and Juliet
- Romeo and Juliet
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
- Seeing the Invisible
- Shawna
- 12 Ophelias (A Play with Broken Songs)
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black, a Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black, a Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black, a Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black, a Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
- Two Steps from the Stars
- The Wild Duck
- Part Two: Monologues for Boys
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Bad Dream
- Barking Sharks
- ¡Bocón!
- Danny the Champion of the World
- Don Quixote
- Exiles
- Fred, Formerly
- A Good One
- The Handicappers
- Henry V
- "Jabberwocky" from Through the Looking-Glass
- Jake's Speech
- Jason
- King John
- The Loman Family Picnic
- The Loman Family Picnic
- Macbeth
- Maricela de la Luz Lights the World
- Matthew and Stephen
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- My Superpower
- New
- The North Wind and the Sun
- Off Compass
- Penny-Wise
- Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The Robot Monologue
- The See-Saw Tree
- Silas
- Something Unexpected
- A Thousand Clowns
- Treasure Island
- Two Steps from the Stars
- Two Steps from the Stars
- The Underprivileged Club
- Unexpected Tenderness
- Yemaya's Belly
- Yemaya's Belly
- Part Three: Monologues by Students
- The Burns
- The Hamster
- I Am Julianne Frank
- In the Rags of a Henchman
- I Saw My Dad in a Dream
- It's Nice to Be Rich
- Kagami's Tale
- The Slacker Wolf
- Zombie Attack
- Play Sources and Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
