Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays

Book Overview

Moving Parts offers actors the best monologues from great plays--pieces by both well-known and up-and-coming playwrights, including many minority artists--that offer a variety of dramatic styles for beginning and experienced actors. Included are more than a hundred monologues from such contemporary voices as Eric Bogosian, Caryl Churchill, Christopher Durang, Maria Irene Fornes, Athol Fugard, Philip Kan Gotanda, Václav Havel, Lanford Wilson, and George C. Wolfe. Designed for easy browsing, the monologues are indexed by gender, age, and subject to help actors locate appropriate material, and each is introduced with a short description of the plot, setting, and character type. These monologues stand on their own as good theater, while they give actors a well-defined character, a story to tell, and a wide range of behavior and feeling to portray.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140139923
• ISBN13: 9780140139921
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Good Selection

Finally, here is a book that is not filled with outrageous monologues. This book is filled with pieces that would be great for auditions. Unlike most books that claim to be diverse but center on a single theme this book delivers.

Moving parts

This Book has given me the best audition pieces.

a great source for good monologues

This book doesn't have a lot of "weird" monologues in it. I liked the variety of styles, and lesser known playwrights. These are some monologues they haven't heard!