One on One : The Best Men's Monologues for the 21st Century

by Henry, Joyce E.

• ISBN13: 9781557837011
• ISBN10: 1557837015
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corp

Summary

Covering the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental theatre since 2000, One on One challenges actors to explore the inner self, develop skill and artistry for auditions, and deliver a knockout onstage performance. These monologues - sometimes comic, sometimes serious, and often both - tackle issues ranging from race, class, gender, relationships and romance to coming of age, mortality, 9/11, and the Iraq war.

Table of Contents

A World of Monologues
The Adventures of Nervous-Boy (A Penny Dreadful)	p. 3
Aliens, 3 Miles, Turn Left	p. 5
An Almost Holy Picture	p. 7
At Said	p. 12
Auntie Mayhem	p. 14
The Beginning of August	p. 16
A Bicycle Country	p. 18
Big Bill	p. 20
Big Love	p. 24
Bitter Bierce	p. 28
The Black Monk	p. 31
Black Thang	p. 33
The Boss's Daughter	p. 37
Burning the Old Man	p. 40
Catch & Release	p. 42
Chaucer in Rome	p. 45
Clean Alternatives	p. 49
Communicating Through the Sunset	p. 52
Corps Values	p. 55
Cuban Operator, Please	p. 58
Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams	p. 60
The Dog Problem	p. 63
Doubt	p. 66
Dust	p. 68
End Zone	p. 73
The Exonerated	p. 76
Expecting Isabel	p. 79
Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine	p. 81
Fat Pig	p. 83
Fear Itself, Secrets of the White House	p. 85
Fetes De La Nuit	p. 87
Folkdance	p. 91
Freedom High	p. 95
Gap	p. 97
Gem of the Ocean	p. 102
Gone Missing	p. 107
Heirloom	p. 109
Imagine	p. 112
The Impossibility of Most Things	p. 114
Jimmy Jim Jim and the M.F.M.	p. 116
Johnny's Got a Gun	p. 122
La Tempestad	p. 125
The Language of Kisses	p. 127
The Laramie Project	p. 129
The Last Freak Show	p. 132
Letters from Cuba	p. 136
Light	p. 138
Lost Love	p. 140
The Ludicrous Trial of Mr. P	p. 145
Maggie May	p. 149
The Mean Reds	p. 152
Measure for Pleasure: A Restoration Romp	p. 154
The Mercy Seat	p. 157
My Chekhov Light	p. 159
'Nami	p. 163
The Naturalist	p. 165
New York	p. 168
On My Head	p. 171
Orson's Shadow	p. 174
O. T. Fairclough and Roger Mais	p. 179
The Paris Letter	p. 182
The Pavilion	p. 184
A Picasso	p. 188
The Pilgrim Papers	p. 191
The Pillowman	p. 193
Platonov! Platonov! Platonov!	p. 195
Prophecy	p. 197
The Proposal	p. 199
Rabbit Hole	p. 203
The Rebirth	p. 205
Red Roses	p. 209
Shyness is Nice	p. 212
Small Domestic Acts	p. 214
Some Girl(s)	p. 216
Souvenir	p. 218
Spin	p. 220
Storytellers	p. 223
Tales of an Urban Indian	p. 228
They're Just Like Us	p. 230
Third Person	p. 232
This is How It Goes	p. 234
Three Days of Rain	p. 236
Via Crucis	p. 242
The Violet Hour	p. 245
The Voyage of the Carcass	p. 252
We Had a Very Good Time	p. 254
WTC View	p. 256
The Extended Monologue
The Anniversary	p. 261
Aunt Pitti-Pat in the Tower	p. 269
The Cost of Living	p. 276
Unequalibrium	p. 283
Play Sources and Acknowledgments	p. 293
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