Even More Monologues for Women by Women

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Featured in this volume are a wide range of voices and characters with a more international focus.
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Editorial Reviews

Library Journal
Nothing evokes as much dread and anguish from both actors and directors as the obligatory audition monolog. The "What-are-you-going-to-do-for-us?" call has all too often been met with the chronically abused Blanche DuBois or Sam Shepard response. Fortunately, publishers like Smith & Kraus and Heinemann have raised the monolog selection bar considerably in recent years, with contemporary collections that often address neglected constituencies like African Americans and women. As he did in his 1997 collection, Monologues on Black Life, Edwards (theater, Arizona State Univ.) addresses the paucity of relevant selections for modern black actors by offering a twist on the orthodox monolog compilation. The 50 pieces he assembles are original, including a beautifully elegaic six-part monolog play, "The Sorrows of Elva." Divided among half a dozen short story-like sections, Edwards's speeches are alternately raw and poetic, reflecting a wide diversity of ages, settings, and contemporary themes that are more individually complete and whole than the typically out-of-context three-minute speech. In the third installment of her popular "Monologues for Women by Women" series, Haring-Smith (English and theater, Brown Univ.) takes a more traditional approach. She gathers 57 selections that collectively represent the freshest and most vibrant assemblage of monologs for women by women now available in the contemporary, fringe, alternative, and international theater (the inclusion of playwrights outside the United States is new). Like Edwards's collection, the monologs included here are all over the emotional and social map. Haring-Smith also provides an extremely actor-friendly subject index that groups the speeches by broad subject headings like "Body Image and Issues," "Race and Ethnicity," and "Aging," among others. She also includes a useful section that offers tips for auditioning with a monolog and brief notes on each playwright. Both titles are most enthusiastically recommended for theater and acting collections at all levels serving the needs of black and female actors.--Barry X. Miller, Austin P.L., TX Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780325002477
  • Publisher: Heinemann
  • Publication date: 1/18/2001
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 776,619
  • Product dimensions: 5.67 (w) x 8.41 (h) x 0.46 (d)

Meet the Author

Tori Haring-Smith has been a director, dramaturg, and translator for more than twenty years in academic and professional theatres. She has served as dramaturg for Trinity Repertory Company; artistic director for the Wallace Theatre in Cairo, Egypt; coordinated the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award; and is now Vice President for Educational Affairs at Willamette University.
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Table of Contents

Subject Index
Introduction
Tips on Auditioning with a Monologue
Doppelganger 1
Sorry 3
Street Stories 7
Epiphany 9
This Dream 13
Tsunami 15
Per Ardua 18
Guadeloupe 21
Welcome Party 23
Acme Temporary Services 26
Zombie Grrls from the Crypt 30
Breasts 34
Parmachene Belle 38
In the House of the Moles 42
Sweetie's Not 43
Islands of Civility 44
Queer Fruit 47
Joan of Arc 50
Loving Enemies III 52
Sprat 54
Summer in the City 58
That's Another Story, Dot Com 60
The Law Makes Evening Fall 67
Indecent Exposure 69
Pearls on the Moon 72
Evelyn's Sister 74
Good Vibrtions 77
The Milestone (from Baby Dreams) 79
Flying 81
Excerpt from Animal Dreams 86
The Last Bridge 90
I Know Me 92
Noon Day Sun 95
Human Affairs 97
Excerpt from Bugaboo 99
The Baptist Gourmet 101
The Interview 103
Southernmost Tip 105
Sleepwalkers 107
Something with Fish 109
Fruct 112
Ruth 114
The Road 116
Perfection 117
Clue Phone 119
Cigarette (from Bleach) 123
Little Red Riding Hood's Mother 125
Thrown by Angels 126
Excerpt from Labor Pains, A Comedy in Nine Months 128
A Teenager's Guide to the Universe 130
Wild Fire (from Epiphanies) 132
Hanging Women 136
Men & Cars 138
Bounty 139
Two Sides to Every Story 143
Tripp 145
Suicide 147
Contributors 149
Performance Rights 160
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