Shorter, Faster, Funnier: Comic Plays and Monologues
Editat de Eric Lane, Nina Shengolden Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2011
Rob Ackerman ● Billy Aronson ● John Augustine ● Pete Barry ● Dan Berkowitz ● Adam Bock ● Eric Coble ● Philip Dawkins ● Anton Dudley ● Christopher Durang ● Liz Ellison ● Halley Feiffer ● Peter Handy ● Jeffrey Hatcher ● Amy Herzog ● Mikhail Horowitz ● David Ives ● Caleen Sinnette Jennings ● Ean Miles Kessler ● Dan Kois ● Eric Lane ● Drew Larimore ● Warren Leight ● Mark Harvey Levine ● Elizabeth Meriwether ● Michael Mitnick ● Megan Mostyn-Brown ● Mark O’Donnell ● Nicole Quinn ● Wayne Rawley ● Theresa Rebeck ● Jacqueline Reingold ● Laura Shaine ● Nina Shengold ● Jane Shepard ● Edwin Sanchez ● Samara Siskind ● Daryl Watson ● Barbara Wiechmann ● Mary Louise Wilson ● Garth Wingfield ● Gary Winter ● Elizabeth Wong ● Dana Yeaton
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ISBN-13: 9780307476647
ISBN-10: 0307476642
Pagini: 530
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS
ISBN-10: 0307476642
Pagini: 530
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS
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Notă biografică
ERIC LANE and NINA SHENGOLD have been editing contemporary theatre anthologies for more than 20 years. Their other titles for Vintage Books include Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays, Under 30: Plays for a New Generation, Talk to Me: Monologue Plays, Plays For Actresses, Leading Women: Plays for Actresses II, Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays, and Take Ten II: More 10-Minute Plays. For Viking Penguin, they edited The Actor’s Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues, The Actor’s Book of Scenes from New Plays, Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays, The Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays (nominated for a Lambda Literary Award), and Telling Tales: New One Act Plays.
ERIC LANE’s award-winning plays include Heart of the City, Ride, Floating, Times of War, Cater-Waiter and Dancing on Checkers’ Grave, which starred Jennifer Aniston. His plays have been published by Playscripts Inc., Applause Books, and the Foreign Language Press (Beijing). Eric wrote and produced the short films First Breath and Cater-Waiter, which he also directed. Both films screened in over 40 cities worldwide. For TV’s Ryan’s Hope, he received a Writer’s Guild Award. Honors include the Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award, the La MaMa Playwright Award, and fellowships at Yaddo, VCCA and St. James Cavalier in Malta. Eric is an honors graduate of Brown University and artistic director of Orange Thoughts, a not-for-profit theater and film company in New York City.
NINA SHENGOLD writes in many genres. Her books include the novel Clearcut (Anchor Books, 2005) and River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers (SUNY Press, 2010) with photographer Jennifer May. Shengold won the Writers Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love, starring Marcia Gay Harden; she also wrote Blind Spot, starring Joanne Woodward and Laura Linney, and three other TV movies. Her plays have been published by Playscripts Inc., Broadway Play Publishing and Samuel French. She is Books Editor at Chronogram magazine, and her good twin has a thriving career as a pseudonymous young adult author.
ERIC LANE’s award-winning plays include Heart of the City, Ride, Floating, Times of War, Cater-Waiter and Dancing on Checkers’ Grave, which starred Jennifer Aniston. His plays have been published by Playscripts Inc., Applause Books, and the Foreign Language Press (Beijing). Eric wrote and produced the short films First Breath and Cater-Waiter, which he also directed. Both films screened in over 40 cities worldwide. For TV’s Ryan’s Hope, he received a Writer’s Guild Award. Honors include the Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award, the La MaMa Playwright Award, and fellowships at Yaddo, VCCA and St. James Cavalier in Malta. Eric is an honors graduate of Brown University and artistic director of Orange Thoughts, a not-for-profit theater and film company in New York City.
NINA SHENGOLD writes in many genres. Her books include the novel Clearcut (Anchor Books, 2005) and River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers (SUNY Press, 2010) with photographer Jennifer May. Shengold won the Writers Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love, starring Marcia Gay Harden; she also wrote Blind Spot, starring Joanne Woodward and Laura Linney, and three other TV movies. Her plays have been published by Playscripts Inc., Broadway Play Publishing and Samuel French. She is Books Editor at Chronogram magazine, and her good twin has a thriving career as a pseudonymous young adult author.
Extras
Introduction
Asian chefs cite five flavor notes—sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and spicy—without which no meal is complete. While assembling the plays in this anthology, the editors enjoyed a dazzling range of comedic hors d'oeuvres. From laugh-out-loud funny to subtly amusing, caustic, witty, or outrageous, there are as many flavors of comedy as there are sense of humor.
We read over 400 short plays and monologues to create this all-you-can-eat comic buffet. We found delectable morsels by celebrated humorists Christopher Durang (Funeral Parlor), David Ives (The Blizzard), Warren Leight (Norm-Anon), Mark O'Donnell (You Know Who Else I Hate?), and Theresa Rebeck (The Contract); inspiring monologues by actor/playwrights Halley Feiffer (Thank You So Much fo Stopping), Dan Berkowitz (Sourpuss), and Tony Award winner Mary Louise Wilson (Tirade); plus enough superb audition pieces, two-handers, and ensemble plays to satisfy laugh-hungry actors, readers, and audience members.
We chose monologues of all lengths, from Liz Ellison's swift Gabrielle and Elizabeth Wong's spiky Ripper Girl to Jeffrey Hatcher's epic Match Wits with Minka Lupino, from his monologue trio Murderers. Pete Barry's irascible businessman extends his free fall from a plane to hilarious lengths in Nine Point Eight Meters per Second per Second. Jane Shephard's Long Distance reveals a man's thorny encounter with a former classmate, while Edwin Sánchez's Ernesto the Magnificent fiercely paints a performance by an embittered sword swallower.
There's also a wealth of play for two actors. Amy Herzog's Christmas Present, Mark Harvey Levine's The Rental, and Garth Wingfield's Mary Just Broke Up with This Guy put unique spins on the staple of comedy, boy meets girl. In Anton Dudley's romantic Getting Home, boy meets hunky Indian cabdriver. The couple in Eric Lane's Curtain Raiser tackles an abandoned Woolworth building; in Wayne Rawley's The Scary Question, another couple bonds over zombies.
There are graceful duets for young actors, including Samara Siskind's Bar Mitzvah Boy, Megan Mostyn-Brown's The Woods Are for Suckers and Chumps, Michael Mitnick's Life without Subtext, and Ean Miles Kessler's bullet-paced Brotherly Love. Senior actors will cherish Peter Handy's bittersweet Friendship and Drew Larimore's The Anniversary, quite possibly the first play about retirees in postapocalyptic Siberia.
Three plays for two actresses—Nicole Quinn's lyrical Sandchair Cantata, Laura Shaine's poignant The Whole Truth & Nothing but the Bluetooth, and Barbara Wiechmann's salty duet for obsessed Realtors, 36 Rumson Road—treat women's darkest anxieties with a refreshingly light touch.
On the testosterone side, Dan Kois's The Rumor outs a surprising scandal in men's sports, Gary Winter's I Love Neil LaBute deftly skewers the playwright dubbed "America's reigning misanthrope," and Dana Yeaton's Men in Heat bares the mysteries of the male biological clock.
Genders bend freely in Adam Bock's Three Guys and a Brenda, in which all four title characters are played by actresses. Nina Shengold's Double Date upends political correctness by taking "joined at the hip" at face value, while Jacquelyn Reingold's A Very Very Short Play sparks an airplane romance between a one-foot-tall woman and a twelve-foot-tall man, both played by actors of average height.
Rob Ackerman's You Have Arrived also encourages very non-traditional casting, as one of its actresses plays a GPS monitor. Other three-character plays include John Augustine's uproariously acerbic cell-phone-age comedy PeopleSpeak and Caleen Sinnette Jennings's Uncovered, which finds gallows humor in the post-Katrina cleanup. Eric Coble's physical comedy H.R. is equally topical, observing a quartet of cubicle workers whipping themselves into a froth at the prospect of being downsized.
Three plays with larger casts go back to school for laughs. Billy Aronson's Reunions offers a wonderfully demented spin on catching-up small talk among high school alumni, Philip Dawkin's whimsical Nothing riffs on an alien invasion at school, and the gruff coach in Daryl Watson's hilarious Snap tries to whip his dozens insult team (including a stuttering girl with unforeseen gifts) into shape.
For divinely inspired slapstick humor, try Mikhail Horowitz's Mere Vessels, a fearless inquiry into the spiritual lives of ventriloquists' dummies, or Elizabeth Meriwether's Particle Board, which gives the pompous Great Man documentary a well-deserved plank in the face.
As editors of more than a dozen play anthologies, we've been gratified to hear of many multiplay productions culled from our previous books. We urge readers of Shorter, Faster, Funnier to enjoy these plays in any way you can: read them aloud with friends; mount a stage reading, full production, or evening of short plays. As always, be sure to acquire the proper rights first—playwrights don't take kindly to finding unauthorized performances in online listings or YouTube postings. Contacts for performance rights are listed in the back of this book, along with playwrights' biographies and an index by cast size.
Whatever your comic taste, you're sure to find something within these pages to make you laugh. You'll also find heartache and suspense, poetic language and raunchy jokes. Comedy is a many-flavored banquet, and we invite you to pull up a chair. Enjoy!
Asian chefs cite five flavor notes—sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and spicy—without which no meal is complete. While assembling the plays in this anthology, the editors enjoyed a dazzling range of comedic hors d'oeuvres. From laugh-out-loud funny to subtly amusing, caustic, witty, or outrageous, there are as many flavors of comedy as there are sense of humor.
We read over 400 short plays and monologues to create this all-you-can-eat comic buffet. We found delectable morsels by celebrated humorists Christopher Durang (Funeral Parlor), David Ives (The Blizzard), Warren Leight (Norm-Anon), Mark O'Donnell (You Know Who Else I Hate?), and Theresa Rebeck (The Contract); inspiring monologues by actor/playwrights Halley Feiffer (Thank You So Much fo Stopping), Dan Berkowitz (Sourpuss), and Tony Award winner Mary Louise Wilson (Tirade); plus enough superb audition pieces, two-handers, and ensemble plays to satisfy laugh-hungry actors, readers, and audience members.
We chose monologues of all lengths, from Liz Ellison's swift Gabrielle and Elizabeth Wong's spiky Ripper Girl to Jeffrey Hatcher's epic Match Wits with Minka Lupino, from his monologue trio Murderers. Pete Barry's irascible businessman extends his free fall from a plane to hilarious lengths in Nine Point Eight Meters per Second per Second. Jane Shephard's Long Distance reveals a man's thorny encounter with a former classmate, while Edwin Sánchez's Ernesto the Magnificent fiercely paints a performance by an embittered sword swallower.
There's also a wealth of play for two actors. Amy Herzog's Christmas Present, Mark Harvey Levine's The Rental, and Garth Wingfield's Mary Just Broke Up with This Guy put unique spins on the staple of comedy, boy meets girl. In Anton Dudley's romantic Getting Home, boy meets hunky Indian cabdriver. The couple in Eric Lane's Curtain Raiser tackles an abandoned Woolworth building; in Wayne Rawley's The Scary Question, another couple bonds over zombies.
There are graceful duets for young actors, including Samara Siskind's Bar Mitzvah Boy, Megan Mostyn-Brown's The Woods Are for Suckers and Chumps, Michael Mitnick's Life without Subtext, and Ean Miles Kessler's bullet-paced Brotherly Love. Senior actors will cherish Peter Handy's bittersweet Friendship and Drew Larimore's The Anniversary, quite possibly the first play about retirees in postapocalyptic Siberia.
Three plays for two actresses—Nicole Quinn's lyrical Sandchair Cantata, Laura Shaine's poignant The Whole Truth & Nothing but the Bluetooth, and Barbara Wiechmann's salty duet for obsessed Realtors, 36 Rumson Road—treat women's darkest anxieties with a refreshingly light touch.
On the testosterone side, Dan Kois's The Rumor outs a surprising scandal in men's sports, Gary Winter's I Love Neil LaBute deftly skewers the playwright dubbed "America's reigning misanthrope," and Dana Yeaton's Men in Heat bares the mysteries of the male biological clock.
Genders bend freely in Adam Bock's Three Guys and a Brenda, in which all four title characters are played by actresses. Nina Shengold's Double Date upends political correctness by taking "joined at the hip" at face value, while Jacquelyn Reingold's A Very Very Short Play sparks an airplane romance between a one-foot-tall woman and a twelve-foot-tall man, both played by actors of average height.
Rob Ackerman's You Have Arrived also encourages very non-traditional casting, as one of its actresses plays a GPS monitor. Other three-character plays include John Augustine's uproariously acerbic cell-phone-age comedy PeopleSpeak and Caleen Sinnette Jennings's Uncovered, which finds gallows humor in the post-Katrina cleanup. Eric Coble's physical comedy H.R. is equally topical, observing a quartet of cubicle workers whipping themselves into a froth at the prospect of being downsized.
Three plays with larger casts go back to school for laughs. Billy Aronson's Reunions offers a wonderfully demented spin on catching-up small talk among high school alumni, Philip Dawkin's whimsical Nothing riffs on an alien invasion at school, and the gruff coach in Daryl Watson's hilarious Snap tries to whip his dozens insult team (including a stuttering girl with unforeseen gifts) into shape.
For divinely inspired slapstick humor, try Mikhail Horowitz's Mere Vessels, a fearless inquiry into the spiritual lives of ventriloquists' dummies, or Elizabeth Meriwether's Particle Board, which gives the pompous Great Man documentary a well-deserved plank in the face.
As editors of more than a dozen play anthologies, we've been gratified to hear of many multiplay productions culled from our previous books. We urge readers of Shorter, Faster, Funnier to enjoy these plays in any way you can: read them aloud with friends; mount a stage reading, full production, or evening of short plays. As always, be sure to acquire the proper rights first—playwrights don't take kindly to finding unauthorized performances in online listings or YouTube postings. Contacts for performance rights are listed in the back of this book, along with playwrights' biographies and an index by cast size.
Whatever your comic taste, you're sure to find something within these pages to make you laugh. You'll also find heartache and suspense, poetic language and raunchy jokes. Comedy is a many-flavored banquet, and we invite you to pull up a chair. Enjoy!
Cuprins
Introduction
Acknowledgments
THE ANNIVERSARY by Drew Larimore
BAR MITZVAH BOY by Samara Siskin
THE BLIZZARD by David Ives
BROTHERLY LOVE by Ean Miles Kessler
CHRISTMAS PRESENT by Amy Herzog
THE CONTRACT by Theresa Rebeck
CURTAIN RAISER by Eric Lane
DOUBLE DATE by Nina Shengold
ERNESTO THE MAGNIFICENT by Edwin Sánchez
FRIENDSHIP by Peter Handy
FUNERAL PARLOR by Christopher Durang
GABRIELLE by Liz Ellison
GETTING HOME by Anton Dudley
H.R. by Eric Coble
I LOVE NEIL LABUTE by Gary Winter
LIFE WITHOUT SUBTEXT by Michael Mitnick
LONG DISTANCE by Jane Shepard
MARY JUST BROKE UP WITH THIS GUY by Garth Wingfield
MEN IN HEAT by Dana Yeaton
MERE VESSELS by Mikhail Horowitz
MURDERERS (“Match Wits with Minka Lupino”) by Jeffrey Hatcher
NINE POINT EIGHT METERS PER SECOND PER SECOND by Pete Barry
NORM-ANON by Warren Leight
NOTHING by Philip Dawkins
PARTICLE BOARD by Elizabeth Meriwether
PEOPLESPEAK by John Augustine
THE RENTAL by Mark Harvey Levine
REUNIONS by Billy Aronson
RIPPER GIRL by Elizabeth Wong
THE RUMOR by Dan Kois
THE SCARY QUESTION by Wayne Rawley
SANDCHAIR CANTATA by Nicole Quinn
SNAP by Daryl Watson
SOURPUSS by Dan Berkowitz
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STOPPING by Halley Feiffer
36 RUMSON ROAD by Barbara Wiechmann
THREE GUYS AND A BRENDA by Adam Bock
TIRADE by Mary Louise Wilson
UNCOVERED by Caleen Sinnette Jennings
A VERY VERY SHORT PLAY by Jacqueline Reingold
THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE BLUETOOTH by Laura Shaine
THE WOODS ARE FOR SUCKERS AND CHUMPS by Megan Mostyn-Brown
YOU HAVE ARRIVED by Rob Ackerman
YOU KNOW WHO ELSE I HATE? By Mark O’Donnell
Contributors
About the Editors
Index by Cast Size
Acknowledgments
THE ANNIVERSARY by Drew Larimore
BAR MITZVAH BOY by Samara Siskin
THE BLIZZARD by David Ives
BROTHERLY LOVE by Ean Miles Kessler
CHRISTMAS PRESENT by Amy Herzog
THE CONTRACT by Theresa Rebeck
CURTAIN RAISER by Eric Lane
DOUBLE DATE by Nina Shengold
ERNESTO THE MAGNIFICENT by Edwin Sánchez
FRIENDSHIP by Peter Handy
FUNERAL PARLOR by Christopher Durang
GABRIELLE by Liz Ellison
GETTING HOME by Anton Dudley
H.R. by Eric Coble
I LOVE NEIL LABUTE by Gary Winter
LIFE WITHOUT SUBTEXT by Michael Mitnick
LONG DISTANCE by Jane Shepard
MARY JUST BROKE UP WITH THIS GUY by Garth Wingfield
MEN IN HEAT by Dana Yeaton
MERE VESSELS by Mikhail Horowitz
MURDERERS (“Match Wits with Minka Lupino”) by Jeffrey Hatcher
NINE POINT EIGHT METERS PER SECOND PER SECOND by Pete Barry
NORM-ANON by Warren Leight
NOTHING by Philip Dawkins
PARTICLE BOARD by Elizabeth Meriwether
PEOPLESPEAK by John Augustine
THE RENTAL by Mark Harvey Levine
REUNIONS by Billy Aronson
RIPPER GIRL by Elizabeth Wong
THE RUMOR by Dan Kois
THE SCARY QUESTION by Wayne Rawley
SANDCHAIR CANTATA by Nicole Quinn
SNAP by Daryl Watson
SOURPUSS by Dan Berkowitz
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STOPPING by Halley Feiffer
36 RUMSON ROAD by Barbara Wiechmann
THREE GUYS AND A BRENDA by Adam Bock
TIRADE by Mary Louise Wilson
UNCOVERED by Caleen Sinnette Jennings
A VERY VERY SHORT PLAY by Jacqueline Reingold
THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE BLUETOOTH by Laura Shaine
THE WOODS ARE FOR SUCKERS AND CHUMPS by Megan Mostyn-Brown
YOU HAVE ARRIVED by Rob Ackerman
YOU KNOW WHO ELSE I HATE? By Mark O’Donnell
Contributors
About the Editors
Index by Cast Size