Audition monologues for female characters selected from recent works by American playwrights including Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz, Constance Congdon, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, Emily Mann, Eric Bogosian, Nicky Silver, and others. Unique to the TCG monologue series is a bibliography of other works by the playwrights included.
A SECRET WEAPON ~ Finding good monologues and scenes can be a challenge for actors. Yet monologues are an essential tool of the trade. Having an arsenal of monologues is like having a secret weapon, giving actors a way to work on their craft every day. Monologues for women are especially hard to find. Hence, the creation of RANDOM WOMEN, a book of monologues and scenes written by an actor for actors.
"'Women of Choice' is a collection of 30, 7-10 minute monologues, all about women who made choices in their lives; some funny, some tragic, some angry, some satirical, some imaginary, some profound, some bizarre--all ages, all conditions, all moods"--Back cover.
A diverse collection of monologues featuring the voices of women through the ages Drawn from poetry, fiction, diaries, journals, and documents of public record, these selections, although not originally intended for theatrical or cinematic performances, offer unique dramatic opportunities for actors, speakers, students, or anyone interested in women’s studies. Stefan Rudnicki has brought together selections from well-known as well as obscure authors, providing a tremendous range of women’s perspectives from a variety of sources: poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, and Sappho, among others; passages from Mary Shelley’s journal, the diaries of Anais Nin, and the memoirs of Isadora Duncan; polemics from Mary Wollstonecraft and Joan of Arc, as well as Susan B. Anthony’s “On Woman’s Right to Suffrage”; and selections from the novels of Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Ursula K. LeGuin, and others.
As a director and instructor, and adminstrator of the Jane Chambers Memorial Playwriting Award, Haring-Smith draws on her experience in the theatre, arguing that actors constantly use the same sources for monologues. This second volume presents material from significant female playwrights.
Editors Tori Haring-Smith and Liz Engelman present fifty-nine previously unpublished monologues written by some of the most inspiring and exciting women now emerging onto the international stage
This is Carolyn Gage's second volume of monologues and scenes for lesbian actors. Some of her characters are historical, and not always lesbian: actresses Nance O'Neil and Henrietta Vinton Davis, Alcoholics Anonymous pioneer Marty Mann, lighting designer Jean Rosenthal... and Lizzie Borden's maid! A fascinating companion to her first volume.