Monologues on Black Life

Monologues on Black Life

Author: Gus Edwards

Publisher: Heinemann Drama

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13:

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With the release of Gus Edwards' Lifetimes on the Streets, published here along with his most recent collection, Portraits in Black, black monologues have finally found their place on the international stage. Together, these sets of monologues are a vital resource for actors and actresses looking for honest and vibrant material. The characters range in age from fifteen to fifty. Among them: a woman on her way to the hairdresser, who enters into a strange relationship with a painter when he invites her to join him for a cup of tea; the Common Man, who warns that Harlem is entering a new ice age; a businessman who, on the death of a homosexual friend, wanders into a porn movie and is forced to confront his own discomfort and lack of confidence.


More Monologues on Black Life

More Monologues on Black Life

Author: Gus Edwards

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13:

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Gus Edwards returns with a second collection of probing and practical monologues on Black life.


Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes

Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes

Author: Anders Nilsen

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1560979801

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An experimental collection of art, humor and philosophy. Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes takes up where the artist's first volume, Monologues for the Coming Plague, left off. Like the Coming Plague, the Density of Black Holes is a creatively experimental laboratory, comprising a collection of free flowing stream-of-consciousness gags, strips, and drawings that slowly coalesce into an unexpectedly compelling and complex narrative. The hints of story that came together in Coming Plague are extrapolated and expanded upon and grow to incorporate some of Nilsen's other outre strips from the anthology MOME, two of which are reprinted here in expanded form. The book is an audacious investigation into the rhythms of storytelling, the blurring of media, and an exercise in reconciling contrasts. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}


Black Heroes in Monologues

Black Heroes in Monologues

Author: Gus Edwards

Publisher: Heinemann Drama

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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"When Gus Edwards discovered that the majority of the young actors, playwrights, and teachers he encountered didn't know who Nat Turner was - nor many other key men and women in black history - he summoned the power of theatre to correct the situation. Black Heroes in Monologues brings these and other influential African Americans to life once again."--BOOK JACKET.


50 African American Audition Monologues

50 African American Audition Monologues

Author: Gus Edwards

Publisher: Drama

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780325004570

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This collection of powerful and original monologues for African American men and women offer a refreshing alternative to recycled standards.


Black Woman Monologues

Black Woman Monologues

Author: Vanessa Morgan

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 1546264507

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Black Woman Monologues is a collection of poems, monologues, and songs written by Vanessa Morgan. Black women are integral beings oftentimes holding down multiple titles to get through their sometimes complicated lives. Vanessa speaks to the black woman’s beauty, courage, struggles, and her ability to overcome obstacles in her life while never giving up or giving in, through fictitious examples of strength and endurance. Vanessa also speaks to their love, joy, and pain and how these emotions allow growth and freedom. Black Woman Monologues is a book for everyone.


Monologues for the Coming Plague

Monologues for the Coming Plague

Author: Anders Nilsen

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1560977183

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The book ranges playfully from riffs on the gag cartoon to paranoid soliloquies of a surrealistic apocalypse, with references to contemporary politics, pop culture, and religion, plays on language, and sequential abstractions. Stories intertwine, branch off, dead end and double back. These are experimental, absurdist art comics, but the book is a page-turner, and some of it is laugh-out-loud funny. Reading it is not so much like reading comics as it is watching the artist make connections between ideas, find patterns, and set down the story as it happens. It's a tour de force, beautifully and uniquely packaged, in black and white and color, by one of the most fascinating new cartoonists of the decade. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}


The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors

The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-12-10

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1783195568

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Foreword by Kwame Kwei-Armah How many Black British plays can you name? Inspired by both classical and contemporary plays, The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors gives readers an insight into some of the best cutting-edge plays written by black British playwrights, over the last sixty years. This collection features over twenty speeches by Britain’s most prominent black dramatists. The monologues represent a wide-range of themes, characters, dialects and styles. Suitable for young people and adults, each selection includes production information, a synopsis of the play, a biography of the playwright and a scene summary. The aim of this collection is that actors will enjoy working on these speeches, using them to help strengthen their craft, and by doing so, help to ensure these plays are always remembered.


The Menopause Monologues

The Menopause Monologues

Author: Harriet Powell

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06-24

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781916139107

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A collection of real-life experiences of the menopause by real women (and a few men!). Funny, sad, tender and honest. Aimed at shattering the taboo that still surrounds the menopause and getting us all talking about something that half the population will go through and many of the other half will experience second-hand.