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The treatment, New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2007. ISBN 9780822222026, OCLC 163587396; A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer New York: Villard, 2007. ISBN 9780345497918, OCLC 862089179; I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World New York: Villard Trade Paperbacks, 2010. ISBN 9780812970166, OCLC 958697162
"All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man.
It also is featured in the anthology Gay and Lesbian Plays Today [9] The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1990, [10] and The Best Stage Scenes for Men From the 1980s (Smith and Kraus, 1990). [ citation needed ] A Quiet End was also the focus of a chapter of Robert Vorlicky's Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama (U. of ...
Most importantly, it's their opening monologue that sets the tone for the night and gives the audience a bit of an idea of how the show is going to play out. Here are the 20 best SNL monologues ...
A Steady Rain is a play by Keith Huff. With a plot similar to a real-life event involving Jeffrey Dahmer, it focuses on two Chicago policemen who inadvertently return a Vietnamese boy to a cannibalistic serial killer who claims to be the child's uncle. When he later becomes the man's latest victim, the lifelong friendship of the two men is ...
"The first time I heard Gloria's monologue I honestly kinda rolled my eyes, because it felt like the same thing I'd seen a million times before in half-done advertising campaigns or in moody ...
Actor Christopher Walken performing a monologue in the 1984 stage play Hurlyburly. In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.
Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce is a play by Sarah Ruhl that premiered in 2002 at the Piven Theatre in Evanston, Illinois. It follows the sometimes melodramatic bank teller, Tilly, and her emotion-driven adventure with several other characters.