Audition monologues for male 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.
Renowned editor Larwrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published men’s monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights and future stars, including Jonathan Yukitch, Don Nigro, Lloyd Su, Daniel Damiano, Molly Goforth, Carlyle Brown, Seth Svi Rosenfeld, Brian Dykstra, Steven Hayet, David MacGregor, and Nat Cassidy. There are terrific comic pieces (laughs) and terrific dramatic pieces (no laughs), and all represent the best of contemporary playwriting. This collection is an invaluable resource for aspiring actors hoping to ace their auditions and impress directors and teachers with contemporary pieces.
Here you will find a rich and varied selection of monologues for men from plays which were produced and/or published in the 2015-2016 theatrical season. Most are for younger performers (teens through 30s) but there are also some excellent pieces for older actors as well. Some are comic, some are dramatic. Some are short, some are long. All represent the best in contemporary playwriting. monologues from: Vincent Delaney, Max Baker, Tom Baum, David Meyers, Lloyd Suh, Richard Dresser, Scott Sickles, Audrey Cefaly, Don Nigro, Vanessa Garcia, Abby Rosebrock, Adam Kraar, Arlene Hutton, Sam Bobrick, Philip Dawkins, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Chad Beckim, Gam Graber, Christopher Chen, Jonathan Caren, Mark Roberts, Ron Riekki, Marja-Lewis Ryan, Emily Schwend, Eric Grant, Paul Lewis Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, Cassie Seinuk, Tanya Saracho, James McLindon, Celine Song, Chiara Atik, lee Blessing, Rebecca Gorman O'Neill, Michael Ross Albert, Elaine Romano, Mark Borkowski, Laura Hirchberg, Trish Harnetiaux, Libby Emmons, C.S. Hanson, Rosary Hartel O'Neill, Leah Tanako Winkler, Rinnie Groff, Roy Procter, Dominique Morisseau, Jeff Tabnick, Eleanor Burgess, Merridith Allen, Mark Gerrard, Tony Glazer, Nicolas Priore, Wendy MacLeod, Barry Ernst, Yussef El Guindi, Peter Ullian, Deb Margolin, Joshua James, Duncan Pflaster, Daniel Guyton, Lawrence Johnna Adams, Lawrence Carr, Brendan Gall, and Clare Barron.
In this comedic quintet, five couples explore the delights and disappointments of their sex lives. Whether they are the first two people on Earth or the last two, modern partners with shifting needs, exes on the eve of a life-altering event, or twelfth-century pen pals, following those most natural desires uncovers truths about their humanity. Altogether, FIVE TIMES IN ONE NIGHT is a hilarious examination of intimacy through the ages.
When Lucia, a Mexican-born novelist, gets her first TV writing job, she feels a bit out of place on the white male-dominated set. Lucia quickly becomes friends with the only other Latino around, a janitor named Abel. As Abel shares his stories with Lucia, similar plots begin to find their way into the TV scripts that Lucia writes. Fade is a play about class and race within the Latinx community, as well as at large, and how status does not change who you are at your core..
Drawing on conversations with hundreds of women about their genitalia, the author presents a collection of performance pieces from her one-woman show of the same name.
"Pygmalion goes awry in contemporary comedy of manners which explores sexual harassment, misplaced amour and the possibility of a four sided love triangle."--Doollee.com.
