Author: Gus Edwards
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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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.
Author: Gus Edwards
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Gus Edwards returns with a second collection of probing and practical monologues on Black life.
Author: Anders Nilsen
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560979801
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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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}
Author: Gus Edwards
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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"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.
Author: Gus Edwards
Publisher: Drama
ISBN: 9780325004570
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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This collection of powerful and original monologues for African American men and women offer a refreshing alternative to recycled standards.
Author: Anders Nilsen
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560977183
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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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}
Author: Vanessa Morgan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546264507
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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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.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783195568
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 127
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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.
Author: Louis Auchincloss
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 054779049X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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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
Author: Todd London
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367636
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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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.
