New Monologues for Women by Women II

by Engelman, Liz; Haring-Smith, Tori

• ISBN13: 9780325007182
• ISBN10: 0325007187
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-20
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

The styles and subject matter of these wide-ranging monologues include everything from the comic and the serious to the political and the personal, and the characters inside them offer the opportunity for any actress to stretch out and explore the idiosyncrasies of another woman's personality.

Table of Contents

Subject Index	p. x
Introduction	p. xii
Tips on Auditioning with a Monologue	p. xix
Pralaya	p. 1
Excerpt from It Doesn't Take a Tornado	p. 2
The Order of Things	p. 4
Shuttle to Houston	p. 6
Fritz Perls Is My (tor) Mentor	p. 8
The Love Shopper	p. 10
The Housekeeper Strikes Back	p. 12
Excerpt from Dark Boughs Down	p. 14
Set Up	p. 15
Excerpt from Tumor	p. 21
One Wasp	p. 22
Pizza Apostrophe	p. 25
The Risen Chris	p. 29
Excerpt from Love Song for the Woman Whose Child Shot My Son	p. 31
Daddy's Girl	p. 33
Years Ago	p. 35
The Cassandra Complex	p. 37
Hay	p. 41
An American Lamp	p. 44
A Day in the Death of Sheldon Wasserman	p. 45
My Mother	p. 47
Excerpt from Marathon Dancing	p. 49
Tigger	p. 51
Ingerto (Plant Fusion)	p. 53
Excerpt from Take a Powder	p. 54
Mrs. Pugh	p. 55
Water Lilies	p. 59
Angela	p. 61
Water Re-tension	p. 63
The God of This	p. 65
Excerpt from Slither	p. 67
Excerpt from Penalty Phase	p. 69
Belt Loop Man	p. 71
Excerpt from The Last Seder	p. 73
Sewing in Syria	p. 75
Helen	p. 76
Somewhere Special (with You)	p. 78
Verdure	p. 79
Still Blonde...Runs Deep	p. 82
The Strawberry Monologue	p. 86
Moonshine	p. 89
Tricky	p. 90
Three Words	p. 95
Song of My Sister	p. 97
Happy	p. 99
True	p. 100
Small	p. 103
Excerpt from The Clean House	p. 105
How Darlene Coleman Became a Professional Eulogist and the Most Popular Girl on the Funeral Circuit	p. 106
Miss Wonderling's History Class	p. 110
The Artist of Transparency	p. 113
Too Cool	p. 118
Jessie	p. 120
Hollywood is Calling	p. 122
36146 and Juanice	p. 125
The Gamester	p. 127
Excerpt from Ajax (por nobody)	p. 129
Excerpt from Rotten State	p. 131
Widow's Walk	p. 133
Love Juice, Excerpt from Dating and Mating in Modern Times	p. 135
Jim?	p. 138
Contributors	p. 140
Performance Rights	p. 157
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