One on One: The Best Men's Monologues for the Nineties

by Temchin, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781557831514
• ISBN10: 1557831513
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corp

Summary

86 monologues for men from the contemporary stage, written by these and other major dramatists: David Mamet * Paul Rudnick * Brian Friel * Steve Tesich * Harold Pinter * David Lodge * Alan Ayckbourn * Timberlake Wertenbaker * Neil Simon * John Patrick Shanley * Jane Anderson * Elizabeth Swados * Herb Gardner * Ariel Dorfman * Craig Lucas.

Table of Contents

Introduction: ``All the World's an Audition''	10	(7)
Jack Temchin
MONOLOGUES (Guide to Genre/Age Range)
Advice From a Caterpillar	17	(1)
Douglas Carter Beane
The American Plan	18	(1)
Richard Greenberg
American Welcome	19	(3)
Brian Friel
Antigone in New York	22	(1)
Janusz Glowaki
Assassins	23	(2)
John Weidman/Stephen Sondheim
The Balcony Scene	25	(6)
Wil Calhoun
The Bellevue of the West Side
Leonard Melfi
(seriocmic/mid 20s-30)	26	(2)
(seriocomic/early 20s)	28	(1)
Big Al
Bryan Goluboff
(comic/28)	29	(1)
(comic/28)	30	(1)
The Big Funk	31	(1)
John Patrick Shanley
Black Eagles	32	(1)
Leslie Lee
Born Guilty	33	(3)
Ari Roth
By Where the Old Shed Used to be	36	(1)
Craig Warner
Carbondale Dreams	37	(1)
Steven Sater
Claptrap	38	(6)
Ken Friedman
Conversations with my Father
Herb Gardner
(comic/early 40s)	41	(2)
(serious/17)	43	(1)
Credo	44	(6)
Craig Lucas
Dancing At Lughnasa	50	(3)
Brian Friel
Dearly Departed
David Bottrell
Jessie Jones
(comic/20s)	51	(1)
(comic)	52	(1)
Death and the Maiden	53	(2)
Ariel Dorfman
Dinosaur Dreams	55	(2)
Tom Szentgyorgyi
The End of I	57	(1)
Diana Amsterdam
The Extra Man	58	(5)
Richard Greenberg
Fortinbras
Lee Blessing
(comic/late 20s-30s)	59	(1)
(comic)	60	(1)
Gentile of the top Percentile
Bruce E. Whitacre
(comic/middle-aged)	61	(1)
(comic/25)	62	(1)
The Glorious Fourth	63	(2)
Robert Sugarman
The Holy Terror	65	(2)
Simon Gray
I Hate Hamlet	67	(1)
Paul Rudnick
The Innocents Crusade	68	(1)
Keith Reddin
Joined at the Head	69	(1)
Catherine Butterfield
La Bete	70	(2)
David Hirson
Last Call Forever	72	(5)
Leonard Melfi
Life During Wartime
Keith Reddin
(comic/16)	74	(2)
(comic/40s or 50s)	76	(1)
Lips Together, Teeth Apart	77	(1)
Terrence McNally
The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Colored Minstrel Show	78	(2)
Carlyle Brown
The Loman Family Picnic	80	(1)
Donald Margulies
Lost in Yonkers	81	(1)
Neil Simon
The Man Who Couldn't Dance	82	(2)
Jason Katims
Marvin's Room	84	(1)
Scott McPherson
My Side of the Story	85	(2)
Bryan Goluboff
Oleanna	87	(2)
David Mamet
On Forgetting	89	(3)
John Pielmeier
On the Open Road	92	(2)
Steve Tesich
Other People's Money	94	(2)
Jerry Sterner
Out the window	96	(2)
Neal Bell
Party Time	98	(1)
Harold Pinter
The Phone Man	98	(2)
Craig Lucas
A Poster of the Cosmos	100	(3)
Lanford Wilson
Road to Nirvana	103	(4)
Arthur Kopit
Rose Cottages
Bill Bozzone
(comic/17)	105	(1)
(comic/17)	106	(1)
Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam	107	(3)
Ed Bullins
Search and Destory	110	(1)
Howard Korder
Separation	111	(1)
Tom Kempinski
Showbiz Rabbi (from Showing off)	112	(9)
Douglas Bernstein
Denis Markell
Sight Unseen
Donald Margulies
(serious/30s)	115	(1)
(serious/30s)	116	(2)
Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare
(serious/early 20s/Black)	118	(2)
(serious/teens)	120	(1)
A Small Family Business	121	(5)
Alan Ayckbourn
Smoke on the Mountain
Connie Ray
(comic/20s)	123	(1)
(comic/40s)	124	(2)
Spiele'36	126	(1)
Steve Carter
Square One	127	(2)
Steve Tesich
Stand up Tragedy	129	(4)
Bill Cain
The Substance of Fire	133	(5)
John Robin Baitz
The Sum of Us
David Stevens
(seriocomic/20s)	135	(2)
(seriocomic/60s)	137	(1)
The Talented Tenth	138	(5)
Richard Wesley
Talking Things over with Chekhov
John Ford Noonan
(comic/early 40s)	140	(2)
(comic/early 40s)	142	(1)
Those the River Keeps	143	(1)
David Rabe
Three Birds Alighting on a Field	144	(2)
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Toyer	146	(1)
Gardner McKay
Two Trains Running	147	(1)
August Wilson
What A Man Weighs	148	(9)
Sherry Kramer
The Writing Game
David Lodge
(comic/about 50)	149	(1)
(comic/about 50)	150	(2)
(comic/early 30s)	152	(5)
Play Sources and Acknowledgements	157