The seven full-length and ten one-act selections in "Plays for Actresses" range in tone from the unabashed theatricality of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Three Tall Women" to the blistering black comedy of Laura Cunningham's "Beautiful Bodies".
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Playwrights Lane and Shengold (Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays, Viking, 1992) edited this anthology of seven full-length plays and ten one-acts for actresses selected in response to queries to playwrights, theaters, and agents. It includes works by the well known?Edward Albee, Lee Blessing, and Wendy Wasserstein?and by emerging playwrights, such as Velina Hasu Houston, Tina Howe, Casey Kurtti, Adam LeFevre, and Craig Lucas. Likewise, some of these plays are not well known or widely produced. Their varied themes, styles, and dramatic forms offer rich, diverse, all-female roles for audition or production by high school dramatic clubs, college acting classes, or professional and civic theater groups. Casts range from one to six actresses. Most of the plays were written in the 1980s and 1990s and have been produced in Off-Broadway and regional theaters. Recommended for high school, public, and academic libraries.?Ming-ming Shen Kuo, Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Casting Call! Here are your star parts!,
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This review is from: Plays for Actresses (Paperback)
Could there be better plays for actresses? I don't think so. The Beautiful Bodies play is so wild and hysterically funny with six great parts, ditto Last of the Great Waitresses. I like David's Red Death too...and Catholic Schoolgirls. This is an all female festival. Wow! I wish I could see them all and act in most of them. They know how to pick'em. The editors have really chosen well and given actresses all over the world a shot at appearing at their best. Pure theatre! This is the perfect launch for women starting their own production companies or all girl groups finding fresh material. Bravo!
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is a GREAT tool for all actresses!,
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As an actress, I've spent many hours thumbing through monologue books that featured what seemed to be exactly three plays, repeated over and over again. These were, in general, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Miss Firecracker Contest, and Agnes of God. Now, all of these are good plays, but trust me, EVERYONE DOES THEM at auditions. That's why this book is so great! First of all, instead of merely giving you excerpts of plays, this book gives you each play in entirety. This is important because good acting requires that one reads the entire play, not merely a few paragraphs. Also, the range of characters is liberating, ranging from very old to pre-teen parts. Anyway, the long and the short of it is that using two monologues from this book got me into a B.F.A. Acting program. Obviously, it's not a magic book that will cause casting directors to gasp with delight and fall into your arms, but it is a useful tool, and far superior to many other books out there.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Hilarious, heartbreaking winners,
By "lshaine" (Stone Ridge, New York United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Plays for Actresses (Paperback)
This collection will keep actresses working and happy for decades. All the plays are winners and provide magnificent roles for talented women. The book is also fun to read! The editors are theatrical genuises and should be producing for Broadway and off Broadway --they have brilliant taste, an eye for tragedy, comedy and just plain all out exciting theatre. I want to see, read, devour these plays..and I'm not even an actress.
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