The Modern Monologue: Women

Book Overview

First published in 1994. The Modern Monologue is a continuation of the previous collection The Classical Monologue. This starts at the dawn of the modern age in 1892, presenting a survey of indispensable speeches from plays that continue to shape the course of modern theatre. The plays included in this collection also happen to be the ones that have helped to define modern acting in all its many guises. Modern playwrights such as Brecht, Genet, Beckett,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878300465
• ISBN13: 9780878300464
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Classic Female monologues with extra information!!!

This book is quite a resource for female actresses and character study. It can be very useful in the acting classroom or for an audition. Playwrights Plays Sir Alan Ayckbourn Absent Friends Arthur Miller After theFall A View from the BRidge Jean Anouilh Antigone & The Lark Jean Genet The Balcony & The Maids Eugene Ionesco The Bald Prima Donna Sir NOel Coward Blithe Spirit James Baldwin Blues for Mister Charlie Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Summer & Smoke Bertolt Brecht The Good Person of Sichuan Caryl Churchill Cloud 9 T.S. Eliot The Cocktail Party Peter Nichols A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Steven Berkoff East Brian Friel Faith Healer Samuel Beckett Happy Days Athol Fugard Hello & Goodbye John Guare The House of Blue Leaves Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit Sam Shepard Icarus' Mother La Turista Eugene O'Neill The Iceman Cometh Long Day's Journey into Night Sir Tom Stoppard Jumpers John Osborne Look Back in Anger Albert Camus The Misunderstanding Eduardo de Filippo Napoli Milionaira Harold Pinter Old Times & The Room Simon Gray Otherwise Engaged Sean O'Casey The Plough & The Stars Sir George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion & Saint Joan Arnold Wesker Roots Joe Orton The Ruffian on the Stairs Luigi Pirandello The Rules of the Game Peter Barnes The Ruling Class Edward Bond Saved & The Sea David Mamet Sexual Perversity in Chicago Frank Wedekind Spring Awakenings Alfred Jarry Ubu Rex Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?

This is a great book!

This was a great book with a wide variety of monologues to choose from. The commentaries were extremely helpful when I had to perform one of the monologues in class and did not have time to read the play. The best part about having so many great piece to choose from is that I could always find the perfect monologue for class, auditions, etc. This book is worth buying...I have used it many times!