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Play the Scene: The Ultimate Collection of Contemporary and Classic Scenes and Monologues Paperback - 2004

by Michael Schulman; Eva Mekler; Michael Schulman (Editor)

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The best source for contemporary and classic scenes and monologues, this volume is the essential compendium for actors and students of theater. Notable playwrights featured in this collection include Christopher Durang, Eve Ensler, Paula Vogel, and Terrence McNally.

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Alexander Dumas * Christopher Durang * Beth Henley * Kenneth Lonergan * Donald Margulies * Steve Martin * Nicky Silver * Bernard Shaw * Alfred Uhry * Paula Vogel

A collection of the greatest scenes and monologues ever written-ranging from Elizabethan to Tony Award-winning plays-this comprehensive anthology spans over five hundred years of theatre. Play the Scene: The Ultimate Collection of Contemporary and Classic Scenes and Monologues by coauthors Michael Schulman and Eva Mekler includes scenes and monologues from classic plays by such notable authors as Edith Wharton as well as the best in contemporary theatre, such as Margaret Edson's Wit.

* Blight Spirit * Camille * The Chosen * The Graduate * How I Learned to Drive * The Last Night of Ballyhoo * The Lisbon Traviata * This Is Our Youth * Vincent in Brixton * And many more!

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Germaine is a thirty-five-year-old waitress at the bar Lapin Agile in Paris in 1904.

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  • Title Play the Scene: The Ultimate Collection of Contemporary and Classic Scenes and Monologues
  • Author Michael Schulman; Eva Mekler; Michael Schulman (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin
  • Publication date 2004-12-07
  • ISBN 9780312318796 / 0312318790
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Library of Congress subjects Acting, Monologues
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004050859
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.508

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  • Library Journal, 11/15/2004, Page 61

About the author

Michael Schulman is an acting teacher who has taught at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the Actors Studio. He founded the British-American Acting Academy and has written and directed a number of plays for Off-Broadway theatre. He is also a psychologist and an author of books on child development.

Eva Mekler is a former actress who has performed both on and off Broadway. She is also a novelist and author of books on American and British acting training.

Play the Scene is Michael Schulman and Eva Mekler's fifth book of scenes and monologues for actors, including Great Scenes and Monologues for Actors, available from St. Martin's Press.

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