Contemporary American Monologues for Women

Description

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.;Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; An Actor Chooses: An Interview with Nancy Piccione; Zillah, A Bright Room Called Day; Zillah, A Bright Room Called Day; Angel, Marisol; Phyllis, Fat Men in Skirts; Narrator, Tenement Lover; 1. "Listen to your nightmares."; Maria Josefa, The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa; Pooty, Reckless; Barbara, Three Hotels; Linda, Talk Radio; Female Greek Chorus (Aunt Mary), How I Learned to Drive; Emilia, Desdemona; Ludivinda, Tenement Lover; Helen, The End of the Day; Grady, April Snow; 2. "My life with him."