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INTRODUCTION ix
TIPS FOR SELECTING AND PREPARING A MONOLOGUE xii
Wacky/Quirky/Odd
Men-Oh-Pause by Lauren D. Yee (comic)
4 Murders by Brett Neveu (seriocomic)
Billy and Dago by Charles Evered (comic)
Neverland by Jonathan Dorf (comic)
FYI by Barbara Lhota and Janet B. Milstein (comic)
Tapster by N. M. Brewka (comic)
Black Now Blue by Adam Simon (seriocomic)
Spare Somethin ? by Barbara Lhota and Janet B. Milstein (comic)
The Alien Hypothesis by William Borden (seriocomic)
The Wet Science by Benjamin Sahl (comic)
Johnny Flip s Fate by Chris Howlett (seriocomic)
Intimidating/Tough/Dangerous
Out of Place by David Robson (dramatic)
Erin Go Bragh-less by John Shea (dramatic)
The Food Chain by Keith Huff (seriocomic)
A Few Small Repairs by David Robson (seriocomic)
Whatever Happened to Godot? by Jonathan Dorf (comic)
How to Draw Mystical Creatures by Ellen Margolis (dramatic)
The Testimony of Gary Alan Richards by Rohn Jay Miller (dramatic)
Untold Crimes of Insomniacs by Janet Allard (dramatic)
Hay by Cynthia Franks (dramatic)
In the Coop by Andrea Goyan (dramatic)
Joyful/Enthusiastic/Excited
Grunions by Barbara Lindsay (comic)
The Line Shack by Kevin M. Lottes (seriocomic)
4 Murders by Brett Neveu (seriocomic)
4 Murders by Brett Neveu (seriocomic)
If This Isn t Love by Jonathan Bernstein (seriocomic)
Big Night by N. M. Brewka (dramatic)
Pitchin Pennies at the Stars by Jeanette D. Farr (seriocomic)
Blunt/Direct
The Art of the Forecast by Dennis Schebetta (comic)
Bridewell by Charles Evered (comic)
Rights to Act by Dominic Taylor (dramatic)
The Great Hugo Barnes by Dennis Schebetta (seriocomic)
(a) Dream in an Airport by Adam Simon (comic)
The Moment of Truth from Crazyology by Frank Higgins (comic)
Pitchin Pennies at the Stars by Jeanette D. Farr (comic)
Hurricane Iris by Justin Warner (seriocomic)
Finding Faith from Skin & Bone by Lisa Rosenthal (comic)
The Cost of Mathematics by L. Pontius (dramatic)
The Mushroom Treatment by Adam Simon (seriocomic)
Vulnerable/Hurt/Exposed
St. Colm s Inch by Robert Koon (dramatic)
A Good Solid Home by Barbara Lhota and Janet B. Milstein (dramatic)
Last Love by Peter Papadopoulos (dramatic)
Last Love by Peter Papadopoulos (dramatic)
Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom by David Zellnik (dramatic)
Romance by Barbara Lhota (dramatic)
Whispers in the Wind by Melissa Gawlowski (dramatic)
Todd and Guy Go Camping by Barbara Lindsay (seriocomic)
Marvel by Joshua Scher (dramatic)
What He Can t Tell You by Mark Loewenstern (dramatic)
Untold Crimes of Insomniacs by Janet Allard (seriocomic)
Angry/Fed Up
Castles on the Coast of North Carolina by John Michael Manship
(dramatic)
The Good King by John Shea (dramatic)
The Pyre by Terri Campion (dramatic)
Ten Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith by Yussef El Guindi
(dramatic)
A Bad Week for Therapy by Barbara Lhota and Janet B. Milstein
(comic)
Management Orientation by Adam Simon (dramatic)
Management Orientation by Adam Simon (dramatic)
Traces by Charles Evered (dramatic)
If Only by Barbara Lhota and Janet B. Milstein (dramatic)
Moving Picture by Dan O Brien (dramatic)
Persuasive/Inspirational
I-2195 by Barbara Lindsay (dramatic)
Aunt Raini by Tom Smith (dramatic)
Good News by Joshua Scher (comic)
Stuck Outside of Dayton with the Bob Dylan Blues Again
by Dennis Schebetta (seriocomic)
Games by Jeannine Coulombe (dramatic)
Marvel by Joshua Scher (dramatic)
Dangerous by Tom Smith (dramatic)
Ten Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith by Yussef El Guindi
(seriocomic)
Out of Place by David Robson (dramatic)
Some Place on the Road by Julius Galacki (comic)
Management Orientation by Adam Simon (seriocomic)
Haunted/Guilt-Ridden
The Cowboy Who Used a Dally Rope by Dylan Guy (dramatic)
Shining Sea by Jonathan Dorf (dramatic)
Shining Sea by Jonathan Dorf (seriocomic)
Into the Wind by Adrienne Perry (dramatic)
The Last Stand of the Comanche Rider by Elise Forier (dramatic)
Strangers in Lamaze by Mark W. Cornell (seriocomic)
The Hope Campaign by Erica Rosbe (seriocomic)
System Eternal by Chance D. Muehleck (dramatic)
Don t Dance Me Outside by William Borden (dramatic)
Couldn t Say by Christopher Wall (dramatic)
Romantic/In Love
Paralyzed July by Kevin M. Lottes (dramatic)
A Death Defying Act by Barbara Lindsay (dramatic)
AlligatoR by Jeremy Menekseoglu (seriocomic)
Wall Street Hymn by James Armstrong (comic)
Flung by Lisa Dillman (seriocomic)
7out by Allan Staples (seriocomic)
A Greater Good by Keith Huff (seriocomic)
Horatio by Chris Stezin (seriocomic)
The Big Vig by Jason Furlani (seriocomic)
High-strung/Neurotic/Stressed-Out
Practicing Peace by Kelly DuMar (comic)
Olfactory Test from Occupational Hazards by Mark McCarthy
(seriocomic)
Open Spaces by Susan Kim (comic)
"Will You Please Shut Up?" by Dan O Brien (comic)
The Usual by Barbara Lindsay (seriocomic)
The Cup by Barbara Lhota and Janet B. Milstein (comic)
Ticked Off in Toledo by Justin Warner (comic)
In the Centerfold by Jonathan Bernstein (comic)
Stopgap by Mary Portser (comic)
Burning Down the House by Barbara Lhota and Janet B. Milstein
(dramatic)
Nirvana by Barbara Lindsay (dramatic)
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Michael Maurer
reviewed Audition Arsenal for Men in Their 30s: 101 Monologues by Type, 2 Minutes and under (Monologue Audition Series) on July 28, 2011
Audition Arsenal for Men in Their 30s: 101 Monologues by Type, 2 Minutes and under (Monologue Audition Series)
I remembered this play as being nothing more than a superb melodrama organized around a charismatic, one-dimensional villain, but I now realize it is more complex than that.
Richard's deformity is not merely a physical sign of spiritual evil, but also a metaphor for the twisted era of internecine and intra-generational violence of which he himself is the inevitable conclusion. Richard claims that his disability disqualifies him for a peaceful age's love-making, but his effective wooing of Lady Anne--literally over her husband's dead body--belies this claim. No, Richard, who from infancy has known nothing but civil war and betrayal, can only be effective when he is either murdering his Plantagenet relatives or plotting to do so. (Thus, when he finally becomes king, he can neither enjoy the honor nor rise to the challenge, and therefore is soon plagued with nightmares and consigned to destruction.)
Richard fancies himself as the medieval Vice, commenting sardonically to the audience on the action he has devised, heedless of the fact that he is also part of a universal moral design. Richard, who embodies in concentrated form the worst deeds of his time, must be purged so that a new age can be established.
It is here that the women of the play become important, transforming it into Senecan if not Sophoclean tragedy. In periodic choruses, the queens Margaret, Elizabeth and Anne (plus the Duchess of York) mourn their children and others who have been snatched from them by civil war, and call down vengeance on Richard and other murderers. The interesting thing about this chorus, however, is that it is not composed of unified expressions of grief and vengeance, for the woman continually curse and blame each other, each proclaiming her own sorrow as somehow superior to that of the others. Ironically, the age's long history of crimes against mothers deprives even maternal grief of its unity.
I believe this is Shakespeare's first self-conscious attempt to create tragedy--in the classical sense--out of popular drama. The conception of the women's chorus--both a traditional tragic chorus and at the same time something more personal, more ironic--is particularly impressive in this regard. Unfortunately, however, Shakespeare overreached himself. In execution, the chorus of queens is often whiny and wearying, and slows down the action without illuminating it. Nevertheless, it is a great step toward the tragic resonances of the major plays.
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