i need ideas for plays to get monologues out of, but they cant be shakespear or any other plays in older languages!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (or, as you've been told, The Importance of Being Earnest, also by Wilde) A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (or The Glass Menagerie) Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie The Crucible by Arthur Miller Our Town by Thornton Wilder For more, you can check Wikipedia's list http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/List_of_pla!.!.!. of playwrights, click on their names and you'll get a list of their plays!. I hope this helps!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet!. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Fences by August Wilson The Birthday Party and The Homecoming by Harold Pinter A Streetcr Named Desire by Tennessee Williams The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S!. Kaurmann and Moss Hart Raisin in the Sun by Larraine HansberryWww@QuestionHome@Com Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Death_of_a_!.!.!. The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_Glass_M!.!.!. *The Glass Menagerie is my favoriteWww@QuestionHome@Com 1) "David and Lisa" 2) "Tea and Sympathy" 3) "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" 4) "Anna and the King of Siam" 5) "A Raisin in the Sun" Www@QuestionHome@Com I'll just add Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening!. There'll also comedies by MoliƩre and plays such as Faust by Goethe!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, After Magritte!.!.!.the list goes on, but the first one is probably the place to look for monologues!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com My 2 favorites are "The Importance of Being Ernest," Oscar Wilde "Don Juan in Hell," G!. B!. ShawWww@QuestionHome@Com Just about anything by Tennessee Williams!. His plays, at times, read like novels!.Www@QuestionHome@Com My husband is a big Eric Overmyer fan!. In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe, especially!.Www@QuestionHome@Com the importance of being earnest by oscar wilde the great gatsby damn yankees black coffee Www@QuestionHome@Com Death of a Salesman is really good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |