The Actor's book of contemporary stage monologues
(1987)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
812.045/ACTOR'S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 812.045/ACTOR'S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 1987
DESCRIPTION

xx, 355 pages ; 20 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0140096493, 9780140096491, 0140096493
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Monologues: Actor's nightmare -- Angels fall -- Art of dining -- Aunt Dan and Lemon -- Baby and the bathwater -- Balm in Gilead -- Between daylight and Boonville -- Blood knot -- Blue window -- Blues for Mister Charlie -- Bosoms and neglect -- Brontosaurus -- Calm down mother -- Christmas on Mars -- Cloud nine -- Come back to the 5 & dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean -- Cowboy mouth -- Coyote ugly -- Crimes of the heart -- Curse of the starving class -- Daddies -- Dance and the railroad -- Danny and the deep blue sea -- Day in the death of Joe Egg -- Days and nights of Beebee Fenstermaker -- Death comes to us all, Mary Agnes -- Death of a miner -- 'dentity crisis -- Effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds -- F.O.B. -- Fairy garden -- Fences -- First breeze of summer -- Fishing -- Foreigner -- Gemini -- Getting out -- Glengarry Glen Ross -- Gloria and Esperanza -- Great Nebula in Orion -- Grown ups -- Homecoming -- House of blue leaves -- House of Ramon Iglesia -- In the boom boom boom -- Jesse and the bandit queen -- Kennedy's children -- Lady and the clarinet -- Lakeboat -- Landscape of the body -- Later -- Life and limb -- Lisbon traviata -- Little footsteps -- Little murders -- Loose ends -- Lunchtime -- Ma Rainey's black bottom -- Mad dog blues - Madness of Lady Bright -- Map of the world -- Marco Polo sings a solo -- Marriage of Bette and Boo -- Midnight moon at the greasy spoon -- Mound builders -- Museum -- Native speech -- Oh dad, poor dad, mama's hung you in the closet and I'm feeling so sad -- Old times -- Orphans -- Painting churches -- Passing game -- Pastorale -- Preyer for my daughter -- Primary English class -- Real thing -- Reckless -- Reunion -- Savage in limbo -- Say goodnight, Gracie -- Scooter Thomas makers it to the top of the world -- Sea horse -- Serenading Louie -- Shivaree -- Short eyes -- Sister Mary Ignatius explains it all for you -- Small craft warnings -- Soap opera - Soldier's play -- Still life -- Strange snow -- Streamers -- Sun always shines for the cool -- Table settings -- Taken in marriage -- Talking with -- Teeth 'n' smiles -- Thieves -- Tracers -- Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie -- Typists -- Uncommon women and others -- Wake of Jamey Foster -- Weekend near Madison -- Woolgatherer -- Zooman and the sign

A splendid collection of monologues from both well-known and obscure scripts

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