{"product_id":"moving-parts-monologues-from-contemporary-plays-9780140139921","title":"Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays","description":"\u003ci\u003eMoving Parts\u003c\/i\u003e offers actors the best monologues from great plays--pieces by both well-known and up-and-coming playwrights, including many minority artists--that offer a variety of dramatic styles for beginning and experienced actors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Included are more than a hundred monologues from such contemporary voices as Eric Bogosian, Caryl Churchill, Christopher Durang, Maria Irene Fornes, Athol Fugard, Philip Kan Gotanda, Václav Havel, Lanford Wilson, and George C. Wolfe. Designed for easy browsing, the monologues are indexed by gender, age, and subject to help actors locate appropriate material, and each is introduced with a short description of the plot, setting, and character type. These monologues stand on their own as good theater, while they give actors a well-defined character, a story to tell, and a wide range of behavior and feeling to portray.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNina Shengold\u003c\/b\u003e's plays include \u003ci\u003eFinger Foods, War at Home, Homesteaders\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRomeo\/Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e, and have been produced around the world. Her one-act \u003ci\u003eNo Shoulder\u003c\/i\u003e was filmed by director Suzi Yoonessi, with Melissa Leo and Samantha Sloyan. Nina won a Writers Guild Award for her teleplay \u003ci\u003eLabor of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Marcia Gay Harden; other teleplays include \u003ci\u003eBlind Spot\u003c\/i\u003e, with Joanne Woodward and Laura Linney, and\u003ci\u003e Unwed Father\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books include the novels \u003ci\u003eClearcut, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRiver of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers\u003c\/i\u003e (with photographer Jennifer May), and a growing posse of pseudonymous books for young readers. A graduate of Wesleyan, she is currently teaching creative writing at Manhattanville College. Nina lives in New York's Hudson Valley, where she has been books editor of \u003ci\u003eChronogram\u003c\/i\u003e magazine since 2004. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Lane\u003c\/b\u003e has edited 12 contemporary play anthologies for Viking Penguin and Vintage Books with his longtime collaborator, Nina Shengold, earning them a Lambda Literary Award nomination. Eric's plays have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and China, and include \u003ci\u003eRide\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFloating\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeart of the City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes of War\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDancing on Checkers' Grave. \u003c\/i\u003eEric wrote and produced the short films \u003ci\u003eFirst Breath \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCater-Waiter\u003c\/i\u003e, which he also directed. For TV's \u003ci\u003eRyan's Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, he received a Writers Guild Award. His honors include the La MaMa Playwright Award, the Berilla Kerr Award, plus fellowships at Yaddo and St. James Cavalier in Malta. Eric is an honors graduate of Brown University, and is the artistic director of Orange Thoughts Productions, a not-for-profit theater and film company in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552714785042,"sku":"9780140139921","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_063dbd67-1676-4d70-b646-8b3c6027f70d.jpg?v=1754900355","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/moving-parts-monologues-from-contemporary-plays-9780140139921","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}