Best Monologues from the Best American Short Plays, Volume Three: 3 (The Applause Acting Series) - Softcover

William W. Demastes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480397407 ISBN 13: 9781480397408

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Really? Words can break spirits, destroy confidence. They can also build hope and incite great acts of heroism. Playwrights know this, and so do theatre audiences. Otherwise, why go? Words matter and carry clout every bit as dangerous as a hammer or crowbar. This, too, playwrights know. The monologues in this volume are full of such blows, striking at our imaginations and our memories, generating responses such as joyful laughter or chilling surprise. Others squeeze us into worlds we've never experienced, or perhaps experienced at the furthest edges of memory and recollection. Still others may help us alter the way we see certain things, people, or beliefs. Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Three is a collection of monologues drawn from the popular Best American Short Plays series, an archive of works from many of the best playwrights active today. Long or short, serious or not, excerpts or entireties, this collection abounds in speech acts that may trigger physical reactions and almost certainly will transform an attitude or two, drawing out lost memories, creating new ones, and definitely entertaining, engaging, amusing us all along the way.

About this title

About the Author:

WILLIAM W. DEMASTES has published widely on modern theatre and drama, including Comedy Matters, Spalding Gray's America, Staging Consciousness, Theatre of Chaos, and The Cambridge Introduction to Tom Stoppard.

About this edition

• Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1480397407
• ISBN 13: 9781480397408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256