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Since its inception a decade ago, the ground-breaking Monologues for Women by Women series has increased the breadth and the quality of original material available to actresses. In this fourth volume, editors Tori Haring-Smith and Liz Engelman present fifty-nine previously unpublished monologues written by some of the most inspiring and exciting women now emerging onto the international stage, as well as some names already familiar to followers of the theatre.

The styles and subject matter of these wide-ranging monologues include everything from the comic and the serious to the political and the personal, and the characters inside them offer the opportunity for any actress to stretch out and explore the idiosyncrasies of another woman's personality. In fact, New Monologues for Women by Women is not only an outstanding resource for professional actresses and acting students but also a sourcebook for theatre companies looking for new plays by women and a reader for anyone with a general interest in women's studies or contemporary theatre.

Women in theatre are constantly searching for new characters to play and new pieces to audition and perform. With New Monologues for Women by Women, they needn't look any further for the best in new, original material that speaks to all audiences in a woman's authentic voice.

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Contents

Subject Index

Why Monologues

Tips on Auditioning with a Monologue

Geoffrey, Joan Ackermann

Cantaloupe, Liz Duffy Adams

Arm Bone, Janet Allard

By Definition, Rachel Axler

The Strawberry Scene, Bianca Bagatourian

Excerpt from Body of Water, Neena Beber

Winter with Tambourine Boy, Brooke Berman

Perry Mason, Parakeets, and Gorganzola, Meredith Besser

The Women of Lockerbie, Deborah Brevoort

Excerpt from con Flama, Sharon Bridgforth

I Am Not a Black Woman, Kim Brundidge

Excerpt from Kate Crackernuts, Sheila Callaghan

Excerpt from Scab, Sheila Callaghan

Excerpt from Braille Garden, Darrah Cloud

So Far, Connie Congdon

Addicts, Tonya Derrickson

Circles, Constance Dial

The Four Effs, Donna diNovelli

F2F, Linda Eisenstein

Lightning, Annie Evans

Take Back the Classroom, Nell Grantham

Excerpt from Jimmy Carter Was a Democrat, Rinne Groff

Intimate Lay, Ellen Hagan

Excerpt from Do You Have Time to Die?, Imani Harrington

The Adventures of Munchkin Woman, Jean Kristen Hedgecock

Excerpt from Mitzi’s Abortion, Elizabeth Heffrom

Excerpt from Distance Over Time Equals, Lidsay Brandon Hunter

Anymore, Carleen Jaspers

Excerpt from Spring Thaw, Susan Johnston

Cowslips, Honour Kane

Shoes, Aurorae Khoo

And What She Told Me, Marty Kingsbury

Excerpt from Original Sin, Lisa M. Konoplisky

Diet Cherry Coke, Sherry Kramer

Fantasy Land, Mary Lanthrop

Excerpt from String of Pearls, Michele Lowe

Excerpt from Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Ellen McLaughlin

A Tradition, Ana Maria Mebane

A Bear incident, Susan Mendelson

Cockapoo, S.P. Miskowksi

Neutered by Sperm, Stephanie Moore

Still Life of a Mouth, Julie Marie Myatt

My Mother’s Eyes, Jamie Pachino

Netty’s Dance, Regina Porter

Gone Stone Cold, Susanna Ralli

Circus Madness, Jacquelyn Reingold

Variations on a Theme, Tania Richard/i>

Qualification 2, Kate Robin

Excerpt from The Clean House, Sarah Ruhl

Excerpt from Under Yelma, Buffy Sedlachek

The Black Eyed, Betty Shamieh

God Is A Dyke, Jane Shepard

The Shaman on the Mountain, Lillian Ann Slugocki

Excerpt from Slow Fast Walking on the Red Eye, Caridad Svich

God Is Kind to Some Women, C. Denby Swanson

I’ll Never Be Skinny Again, Fiona J. Torres

Fruit Flies, Jennie Webb

Two Girls, Erin Cressida Wilson

Breathing Space, Betty Jane Wylie

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