Gathers brief comic and dramatic monologues from a variety of plays
(Applause Acting Series). 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 * Herb Gardner * Ariel Dorfman * Craig Lucas.
Introduction: ``All the Worlds 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 Couldnt Dance 82(2) Jason Katims Marvins 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 Peoples 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) Spiele36 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
