Contemporary Hispanic, Asian, and African-American plays
Edited By Roger Ellis

Age Level: All Ages

Scenes and monologs from new Hispanic, Asian, and African-American plays
Edited By Roger Ellis

Age Level: All Ages

Twenty-three one-act plays for performance
By: Robert Mauro

Age Level: All Ages

Most all of the plays in this book are easily adapted to classroom or stage performance. Suggestive props and simple costuming will provide the mood and setting. The emphasis is on contemporary characters in contemporary situations. Parts for actors of all ages from teens to middle age. Light drama, tragicomedy, and satire. Small cast plays, monologs, and duologs. A versatile source book of short plays for many uses.

(240 pages, 5½ x 8½, paperback)

How to play monologs from contemporary, modern, period, Shakespeare, and classical plays
By: Gerald Lee Ratliff

Age Level: All Ages

"Majeski shows how setting and dramatization can enhance a monolog." - The Midwest Book Review

These are professional-level comedy monologs, but they can be easily performed by talented high-school actors.Most of all the characterizations can be effectively performed by either sex. The emphasis is on comedy and social satire. Nothing is sacred, yet all monologs are within the boundaries of good taste. In most instances, the monologist is making fun of his/her own dilemmas of everyday living. Good contest material. Excellent for classroom use. Each monolog is three to five minutes long.

"These 65 short monologs will satisfy young people's needs for audition material or classroom drama material." - Booklist

For speech contests, acting exercises, auditions or audience entertainment in a stage review, these short monologs are to theatre what Art Buchwald is to journalism. Warm. Funny. And best of all - real! Sixty-five characterizations for girls, boys and both together. Any young person will relate to the topics of these scripts. And they will love them as performance material that is easy to learn and deliver. The only book of "non-theatrical" monologs we know of.

"These monologs are often insightful and will find a welcome spot in theater collections." - School Library Journal