Outstanding Stage Monologs and Scenes from the '90s: Professional Auditions for Student Actors

by Steven H. Gale

Overview

A collection of forty selections from some of the most important contemporary plays and playwrights of the 1990's. These selections reflect actors' and student actors' desires for new and fresh scenes and monologs -- pieces that are up-to-date and exciting to perform. The drama book reflects current trends where small theatre groups proliferate, women and minorities have a growing influence, and drama has become a truly international art form. Thirty-five playwrights are represented including: Albee, Fratti, Kushner, Horowitz, Wilder, Norman, Dresser, Gurney, Rivera, Cruz, Friel, and more. Many selections contain strong language and adult situations which might be objectionable to some.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566080583
Publisher:	Meriwether Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	03/28/2000
Edition description:	LIMITED
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.52(w) x 8.68(h) x 0.51(d)
Age Range:	11 - 17 Years

About the Author

Steven H. Galereceived his B.A. from Duke University (where he participated in Duke Players productions), his M.A. from the University of California at Lost Angeles and his PhD from the University of Southern California. He has taken post-graduate courses at several universities, including MIT and Oxford University (Christ Church). He has taught at UCLA, USC, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Liberia (as a Fulbright Professor of American and British Literature and Director of University Players), the University of Florida, Missouri Southern State and Kentucky State University (he is the University Endowed Chair in the Humanities). Besides 20 scholarly books and 150 articles on drama, film, folktales and British, American and African literature, he has published short stories, poetry and one-act plays. Gale is internationally recognized as the leading authority on the works of Harold Pinter (eleven books, including the standard bibliography andButter's Going Up: A Critical Analysis of Harold Pinter's Work, one of the first major monographs on Pinter); he was the founding president of the Harold Pinter Society and is a founding co-editor ofThe Pinter Review: Annual Essays. Gale has also acted in local productions and directed both university players and small theatre groups, and he has taught a course in acting. He is currently working on a study of Pinter's screenplays, a novel and a screenplay.