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How to Select and Perform Monologues: Acting One Series

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Catalano (Author)This volume is a great choice for both professional actors preparing for an audition for an agent or casting director or performing arts students who have been assigned a monologue in an acting class. You will learn how to select a monologue that is right for you and get valuable tips for presentation at auditions and acting classes. It also contains sections on terminology you will need to know when performing in film, television, voice ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald Keaton (Author)It is March 1946. After leading Britain and her Allies to victory in the European Theatre, Winston Churchill has been shockingly defeated for re-election as Prime Minister. Living in forced retirement, Churchill receives an invitation from President Harry Truman to speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where he will deliver his legendary, emphatic "Iron Curtain" speech. In CHURCHILL, the influential Nobel Prize laureate discuss...

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Report copyright infringementby Bjornstjerne Bjornson (Author)Björnstjerne Björnson (1832-1910) was a poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, editor, public speaker, theatre director, and one of the most prominent public figures in the Norway of his day. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903 and is generally known, together with Henrik Ibsen, Alexander Kielland, and Jonas Lie, as one of "the four great ones" of 19th-century Norwegian literature. His poem "Ja, vi elsker dette la...

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Report copyright infringementby Evan Lipscomb (Author)Jenna Rivera's life runs on deadlines, caffeine, and sarcasm. Working at Shoreline Creative means constant pressure and constant friction with Logan Price, the maddeningly confident marketing golden boy who seems to enjoy getting under her skin almost as much as he enjoys winning.To Jenna, Logan is everything she avoids: charming, competitive, and way too good at reading her.So when a girls' night out leads to a spontaneous download of an ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Cherry (Author), Kalisha D. Lemmitt-Cherry (Editor)As an adult what if you could go back and tell yourself to think about things differently?As a young person what if there was such thing as an accurate playbook to life?My Two Sense gives a mature perspective on reevaluation of the perspective of self.In his writing debut, Peter Cherry captures the art of expression in an entertaining poetic tone. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Grant (Author)Stella Europa, a new play for our times by Ian Grant, pits the values of Europe against the values of the hard right. It pits growing popular nationalism against the assumptions and connections of the British political establishment. It pits a passionate belief in the peace of Europe, reason, respect, understanding and dignity in public affairs against a passionate belief in 'Britain for the British, escape from Europe, our money, our jobs'. N...

Lucie Plays: 1: Progress; Fashion; Grace; Gaucho

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Report copyright infringementby Doug Lucie (Author)This collection includes four of the best plays from one of the leading playwrights of the 80s Progress: 'A small, anguished, hilarious masterpiece' Evening Standard; Fashion: 'One of the best plays of the 1980s - a rancid, state-of-the-nation account of a corrupt advertising supremo pitching for the Tory account in the run-up to a general election' Daily Telegraph; Grace: 'This is a clear, strong, thoughtful and tough play, full of cruel hum...

Simpin' All Over The World: Love, Lust, and Layovers

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Report copyright infringementby Cortland Hill (Author)Achilles Hill, is young, fly, and living the kind of life most people only see through airplane windows and Instagram stories. As a flight attendant in his early twenties, he's paid to move-city to city, bed to bed, moment to moment-collecting stamps in his passport and stories he'll never tell his mother. The skies are his office, airports are his second home, and commitment has always felt optional.But freedom has a price.From London lay...

Rottens, Chatterboxes & Mayors: Three Short Plays from the Spanish Golden Age

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Report copyright infringementby Catalina Castillón (Translator), Andy Coughlan (Translator)The three short plays in this volume deal with timeless important issues, have the potential for a diverse cast, and most important, they are funny. Written during the Spanish Golden Age, they still resonate with a modern audience as they deal with the basic foibles of the human condition. Historians know that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), author of the first great novel, Don Quixote, wrote ...

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Report copyright infringementby Emilie Collyer (Author)Super is a new Australian play by celebrated Melbourne playwright, essayist and poet Emilie Collyer, directed by multi award-winning theatre-maker, Emma Valente. Featuring Laila Thaker alongside Red Stitch Ensemble member Caroline Lee.Phoenix and Nel have superpowers. They take a lot of care and do a lot of good. But when celebrity chef Rae arrives at one of their weekly support meetings, she turns their world upside down. As they transfo...

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Report copyright infringementby Xavier Coy (Adapted by), Georg Georg (Based on a Play by)In a modern, urban reimagining of Woyzeck, Friedrich Woyzeck, a dim-witted but tender-hearted man with bipolar disorder in his 30s, wanders through a world that has no place for him. Living with his pragmatic sister Andrea in public housing, he struggles to stay medicated and out of trouble while talking to an imagined companion - his dog, "Dog." The Police Officer, who alternates between empathy and auth...

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Mendes Da Costa (Author)A Better Woman is a full-length, two act comedy play about love and indecision. Tom is searching for 'the one'. In fact, now that he's in his forties, Tom's been searching for 'the one' for quite some time. After a few romantic near misses, he turns to the world of online dating to find someone to grow old with. With the help of his despairing neighbours he launches a determined quest to find his perfect match, undertaking an exhau...

The Shakespeare Key: Unlocking the Treasures of His Style, Elucidating the Peculiarities of His Construction, and Displaying the Beauties of His Expre

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Cowden Clarke (Author), Charles Cowden Clarke (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Brockmann (Editor) Number of Pages: 384 Dimensions: 0.79 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 19, 2026

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Report copyright infringementby Voltaire (Author)This powerful work was read by Voltaire to Frederick of Prussia in 1740 to the king's great delight. The play was withdrawn after the fourth representation under pressure of Church authorities who professed to see in it a bloody satire against the Christian religion. Almost three hundred years later critics are still unclear if this play is a rebuke of Islam or of Christianity or perhaps both.Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our...

The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, Vol 1

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Report copyright infringementby Denyse Lynde (Editor)THIS COLLECTION OF plays from Newfoundland playwrights, both established and emerging, is the first in a series of three anthologies. The collection proposes to include the following selection of popular plays from around the province: Robert Chafe's "Isle of Demons," recounting an affair and brutal punishment in 1542 New France; award-winning playwright Anne Chislett's play "No Sweat" about the use of sweat shops; Amy House's play "Scratch...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Dickens (Author), J. Etc Barnard (Illustrator)The Personal History of David Copperfield is a novel written by Charles Dickens that was first published in 1850. The story follows the life of David Copperfield, a young boy who grows up in poverty and faces numerous challenges throughout his life. The novel is a coming-of-age story that explores themes such as love, loss, family, and the struggle for self-discovery.David is born to a widowed mother and is ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gregg Ostrin (Author)What happens when a James Bond-like spy gets sent to rehab because of his drinking, gambling, womanizing and anger issues? You get THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB. It's a comedic look at how an outdated male relic who still embodies Toxic Masculinity learns to think differently, courtesy of a colorful group of woke, self-aware recovering addicts. His journey to enlightenment gets derailed, however, when his archenemy shows up for a final confro...

The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

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Report copyright infringementby Lajos Egri (Author), Gilbert Miller (Introduction by)This is a new release of the original 1946 edition. Number of Pages: 318 Dimensions: 0.66 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 27, 2013

Three Plays: The Gauntlet, Beyond Our Power, The New System

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Report copyright infringementby Bjornstjerne Bjornson (Author)This volume collects three plays: "The Gauntlet," "Beyond Our Power," and "The New System." Number of Pages: 290 Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 27, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Ib Melchior (Author)A test pilot, veteran of Desert Storm, crashes while testing a top secret military device. His injuries rob him of his memory, reducing him to the level of an animal - but an animal with the intelligence and reasoning power of a man, and the fear and desperation of a hunted beast. He leads the men who would save him on a fantastic chase through the desolate and hostile country of Death Valley, pitting animal instinct against sophisticated te...

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Osment (Author)One night, an off-duty police officer and a woman carrying a cat box meet on Beachy Head. Two disparate souls collide, and learn what it truly means to be touched by the magic of hope. Philip Osment's final play, Can I Help You? is a magical realist examination of the role race and gender have to play in mental health and suicide.Author BiographyPhilip Osment was an actor, director, and writer. He acted with several alternative theatre com...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandre Dumas (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)Anthony is injured saving a beautiful girl--but can he win her love? The best-known play by French historical novelist Alexandre Dumas, translated for the first time into English. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 16, 2009

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Report copyright infringementby Viola Julia Davis (Author), Junior R. Campbell (Foreword by)A study of Caribbean literary Nobel laurete Derek Walcott's work as a playwright. This aspect of Walcott's literary output is typically neglected as his work as a poet is normally stressed. Author Viola Davis originally wrote the book for her doctoral thesis at the University of the West Indies. This is Davis' second book on Caribbean literature. Her first, "The Creative Use of Schizophrenia in Caribbe...

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Report copyright infringementby Keisha Floyd (Author)After a heart wrenching childhood of family turmoil, pain and distrust in Central Miami, Keisha "Dior" Floyd invites us all into her very real world of little girls who grow up to become dancers. Not ballet, rodeo or salsa dancers, but professional strippers-women who dance for hardcore cash in late-night strip clubs. And in Keisha's international, model-haven home of Miami, Florida, the competition is always steep. So Keisha becomes Dior-a...

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Report copyright infringementby Jess Dee (Author)She Don't Want the World by Jess Dee is a poignant and heart-wrenching tale of love, loss, and resilience, based on real experiences. Follow the journey of Jordan, a young girl who navigates the complexities of life after discovering she was adopted. As she grows up, she faces the heartache of loss and the challenges of finding her own path in the world.Set against the backdrop of her military aspirations, Jordan's story is one of strength and ...

The Mystique of a Romance Between May & Me

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Report copyright infringementby Michael K. Bender (Editor), Hanieh Barazande (Illustrator), Behzad Noori (Author)Tina provides all of us an opportunity to gain an understanding of the beauty of motherhood and mothers, our freedom to choose, the Eastern philosophy of love, and the spiritual being who protects us all. For those of us who are not mothers, Tina's book gives us a greater appreciation for our own mothers and our role in the world in which we live. Michael K. Bender.Author Biography...

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Report copyright infringementby George Axelrod (Author)A mild young reporter comes to interview the current motion picture goddess as she lounges for a massage. He encounters a high-powered agent who for successive ten percents of the reporter's soul arranges for the goddess to fall madly in love with him and even wins an Oscar for him. But in the third act with little percent of his soul left the writer manages to wrench free from both Hollywood and the goddess. Orson Bean played the origina...

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin Sanchez (Author)A Puerto Rican hit woman, her mentally challenged son, and a janitor who dreams of nothing more than being a father meet the neighbors from hell. Crass, rude and desperate these neighbors are like everybody else, looking for a way to end their loneliness. These characters find out the hard way that family comes first.LA BELLA FAMILIA is a winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship and the National Latino Playwrit...

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Sharkey (Author)Jack SharkeyFull Length, ComedyCharacters: 2 male, 2 female Interior SetTake a husband, wife, lover and friend, add a strange lamp, a gun and a rubber chicken plus a party that begins at 8 p.m., then again at 8 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m. and you have this nightmare comedy." Four people find themselves reliving one horrible hour over and over as themselves, as Japanese, as British aristocrats, as gangsters, and almost anything else you ca...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Jacobson (Author) "It takes a special leap of imagination--a leap of faith, even--to look at a mild-mannered Lutheran pastor and see in him Madame Ranevskaya, the disastrously sentimental widow of Anton Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD. Or, by extension, to compare the current senescence of mainline Protestantism to the destabilizing decline of Russia's landed gentry a hundred and twenty years ago. But then Tom Jacobson (OUROBOROS) is no ordinary playwright. Hi...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenny Finkle (Author)Part murder mystery, part unrequited romance, and part absurdist debacle about the denial and transcendence of death, TRANSATLANTICA tells the story of Dr Reginald Reinhold, whose psychoanalytic session with an eccentric patient, Ilyria (of the land of Ilyria), is interrupted by his wife with news that she is dying. By coincidence, Ilyria too is dying, as is every subsequent visitor to his home--a parade of increasingly eccentric guests. Wi...