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A collection of the best stage monologues of the eighties and nineties (including new translations) This volume brings together monologues of all types - from serious to comic and shades in between - to provide a varied, dramatic challenge for any actor: professional, student or amateur. Here is an invaluable resource for auditions, acting classes competitions and rehearsals. Playwrights include: Alan Bennett, Steven Berkoff, Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, Ariel Dorfman, Brian Friel, John Guare, Iain Heggie, Declan Hughes, Tony Kushner, Doug Lucie, Frank McGuinness, David Mamet, Anthony Minghella, Tom Murphy, Richard Nelson, Harold Pinter, Billy Roche, Sam Shepard and Stephen Sondheim

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Professor Michael Earley is former Chief Producer of Plays for BBC Radio Drama in London. He was Chairman of the Theatre Studies Program at Yale University and taught acting, dramatic literature and playwriting there and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, The Juilliard School's Acting Program, Smith College and various other schools and universities in America and Britain. He is currently the principal of the Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. Philippa Keil is a writer, editor and translator who trained at the Yale School of Drama. She graduated from Sussex University where she acted, directed and produced plays for the Frontdoor Theatre, and then worked professionally in London at Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre.

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