Download or read book Monologues on Black Life written by Gus Edwards and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 1997 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes written by Anders Nilsen and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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}
Download or read book Black Heroes in Monologues written by Gus Edwards and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book 50 African American Audition Monologues written by Gus Edwards and published by Drama. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of powerful and original monologues for African American men and women offer a refreshing alternative to recycled standards.
Download or read book More Monologues on Black Life written by Gus Edwards and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gus Edwards returns with a second collection of probing and practical monologues on Black life.
Download or read book Black Woman Monologues written by Vanessa Morgan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Monologues for the Coming Plague written by Anders Nilsen and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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}
Download or read book The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Sit Down with Cyn written by Cynthia D. Hilaire and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen original monologues for the black girl living during Generation Z. With a mixture of comedic, dramatic, and reflective pieces, the book explores the growing pains of adulthood, microaggressions, mental health, family dynamics, and social identity through the raw and mature eyes of a young black girl.
Download or read book Manhattan Monologues written by Louis Auchincloss and published by HMH. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times–bestselling author, short stories of the privileged class, spanning a century of New York history:“Urbane, humorous . . . a treat to read.” —Library Journal Sublime master of manners, exquisite critic of the upper crust, and beloved American author Louis Auchincloss is at his wry, brilliant best with this collection of ten short stories about New York aristocracy. Drawing on a century of Manhattan high society, Auchincloss weaves a set of perfectly crafted, intimate portrayals of the struggles and dramas of the elite. From a woman faced with choosing love or prestige when marrying to a man torn between loyalty to his family and country when called to war to a matchmaker handling a rogue romance, these glamorous yet all-too-human tales present a remarkable tableau of the American upper class. A series of “finely etched portraits of the kind of men we’ve become used to meeting in [Auchincloss’s] fiction,” Manhattan Monologues stands as a remarkable achievement of short fiction, a legend of American letters at his insightful best (The New York Times Book Review). “For the sheer elegance of his prose, Louis Auchincloss deserves a large and enthusiastic following.” —The Baltimore Sun
Download or read book American Theatre Book of Monologues for Men written by Stephanie Coen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audition monologues selected from plays first published in American theatre magazine since 1985.
Download or read book Contemporary American Monologues for Women written by Todd London and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Black Lives Black Words written by Reginald Edmund and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected and edited by the award-winning American playwright Reginald Edmund, who produced Black Lives, Black Words across the US, which premiered in Chicago, July 2015. The international project has explored the black diaspora’s experiences in some of the largest multicultural cities in the world, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Toronto and London. Over sixty Black writers from the UK, USA, and Canada have each written a short play to address Black issues today. "I started Black Lives, Black Words because I felt there needed to be an opportunity for me as a playwright to speak out against the sins committed in this world inflicted upon black bodies: Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Rekia Boyd, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, and the countless many others. This in turn caused me to wonder what other artists were out there that possess this overwhelming desire to speak out for the unheard voices. Companies in Minneapolis with Guthrie Theatre, Carlyle Brown and Company, Bedlam Theatre, Freestyle Theatre, the Million Artist Movement, in Maryland – Columbia Arts Festival, Chicago – Polarity Ensemble Theatre, Toronto – Obsidian Theatre, Buddies and Bad Times Theatre, and the National Arts Centre, along with many others joined us and now, two years later we have given voice to over sixty Black Playwrights and over a hundred performers. From city to city, Black Lives, Black Words has remained an event that is accessible and affordable to all. Embraced by a wide range of different theatres that vary in capacity, playing to houses from 70 to 300 audience members. Selling out in every venue. I collected these works showcased at BLBW events from all over in hopes that the narratives that have been placed in here speaks to the Black Struggle, Black Achievement, Black Love, Black Aspirations, Black Hopes, Black Dreams, BLACK EVERYTHING. I hope that the narratives amplify the importance of the Black Lives Matter Movement, that these plays find themselves in theatres both community and regional, in classrooms and libraries, church houses, and communal gathering serving as a rallying cry for those that are artists and even those who are not that OUR BLACK LIVES MATTER, individually, globally, and spiritually." - Reginald Edmund, Managing Curating Producer, Black Lives, Black Words Featured in this collection are: Reginald Edmund, Idris Goodwin, James Austin Williams, Rachel Dubose, Becca C. Browne, Marsha Estell, Aaron Holland, Loy A. Webb, Lisa Langford, Christina Ham, Harrison David Rivers, Dominique Morisseau, Winsome Pinnock, Trish Cooke, Mojisola Adebayo, Rachel De-Lahay, Max Kolaru, Yolanda Mercy, Somalia Seaton, Courttia Newland, Luke Reece, Tawiah BenEben M’Carthy, Jordan Laffrenier, Meghan Swaby, Mary Ann Anane, Allie Woodson, Elliot Sagay, Amira Danan, Cat Davidson, Noelle Fourte, Kori Alston
Download or read book Monologues for Actors of Color written by Roberta Uno and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection features 45 monologues excerpted from contemporary plays and specially geared for actors of color. Robert Uno has carefully selected the monologues so that there is a wide-range of ethnicities included: African American, Native American, Latino and Asian American. Each monologue comes with an introduction with notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor."--Publisher.
Download or read book The Agita Monologues written by Maryann Maisano and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of a young woman who was very different from everyone else in her oddball yet loving Italian-American family. Being the youngest of four, comedienne/singer Maryann Maisano viewed the antics going on in her Italian-born parents' home from a very different perspective than her siblings. They all grew up with a commuter parking lot as their backyard, numerous taxis in the driveway, taxi phones ringing at dinner, and a very charismatic father who had 'a way with the ladies'.
Download or read book The Panza Monologues written by Virginia Grise and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Panza Monologues script also features stories contributed by Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, Petra A. Mata, and Maria R. Salazar."
Download or read book The Menopause Monologues written by Harriet Powell and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
