Theatre and Dance (SUBJECT GUIDE): Finding Plays & Scenes

"41 great audition pieces for men and women from the 1994 theatrical season"

"Blackeyed is a collection of plays and monologues. The topics covered in the book include housing and foreclosure, suicide, assault, mental health, the Black male experience, and more."

"In this collection of monologue plays, Eric Lane and Nine Shengold have gathered an array of human voices and stories by master playwrights and emerging new writers. Each of the plays, ranging from one-acts and ten-minute plays to full-length works, creates a rich and specific world. Because each selection is a complete monologue, Talk to Me is an unprecedented source for actors in search of material for auditions, classes, and performances."

"A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor."

"For the actor looking for classical material for scene study, monologue work, or auditions, this volume is the most extensive guide available to the repertoire of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It is a complete guide to more than six hundred playable scenes and monologues from the theatre of Shakespeare's time."

"Originally compiled to serve as an index to the contents of the Microprint edition of the Three centuries of English and American plays."

The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the U.S. since the beginning of the 20th century. Indispensable tool for reference, referral, and collection development. Highly recommended. --REFERENCE BOOKS BULLETIN