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Hi all! My intermediate drama class will be finishing up their monologue unit in a couple of weeks. Because I want the class to be a mix of performance and literature study, I'm trying to find a play for them to study that is made up of mostly monologues. I looked at "Runaways," but I don't want to start with music. "Waiting for the Parade" was a favorite of mine from high school, but the class is split pretty evenly along gender lines, and I want the boys to be as involved as the girls.

Any title suggestions?

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Jodi Disario
Director of Drama
Willow Glen High School
San Jose, CA
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Both And by Alan Haehnel and Voices In Conflict by Bonnie Dickinson are mostly monologues. If I remember correctly there is a single scene in each

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Shira Schwartz
Chandler Unified School District
Chandler AZ
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-13-2017 16:28
From: Jodi Disario
Subject: Plays of monologues

Hi all! My intermediate drama class will be finishing up their monologue unit in a couple of weeks. Because I want the class to be a mix of performance and literature study, I'm trying to find a play for them to study that is made up of mostly monologues. I looked at "Runaways," but I don't want to start with music. "Waiting for the Parade" was a favorite of mine from high school, but the class is split pretty evenly along gender lines, and I want the boys to be as involved as the girls.

Any title suggestions?

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Jodi Disario
Director of Drama
Willow Glen High School
San Jose, CA
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You might want to look at The Monologue Show (From Hell), there's both a one-act and full-length version. Published by playscripts.

https://www.playscripts.com/play/2942

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Don Zolidis
Cedar Park TX
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-13-2017 16:28
From: Jodi Disario
Subject: Plays of monologues

Hi all! My intermediate drama class will be finishing up their monologue unit in a couple of weeks. Because I want the class to be a mix of performance and literature study, I'm trying to find a play for them to study that is made up of mostly monologues. I looked at "Runaways," but I don't want to start with music. "Waiting for the Parade" was a favorite of mine from high school, but the class is split pretty evenly along gender lines, and I want the boys to be as involved as the girls.

Any title suggestions?

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Jodi Disario
Director of Drama
Willow Glen High School
San Jose, CA
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Perhaps Fires in the Mirror or Twilight: Los Angeles by Anna Deavere Smith? Both are a serious of interconnected monologues taken verbatim from interviews of local people involved in a clash of cultures (I hope that does justice to the works!).

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Ken Buswell
Drama Teacher
Peachtree City, GA
http://mcintoshtheater.org/

Theater kills ignorance
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-13-2017 16:28
From: Jodi Disario
Subject: Plays of monologues

Hi all! My intermediate drama class will be finishing up their monologue unit in a couple of weeks. Because I want the class to be a mix of performance and literature study, I'm trying to find a play for them to study that is made up of mostly monologues. I looked at "Runaways," but I don't want to start with music. "Waiting for the Parade" was a favorite of mine from high school, but the class is split pretty evenly along gender lines, and I want the boys to be as involved as the girls.

Any title suggestions?

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Jodi Disario
Director of Drama
Willow Glen High School
San Jose, CA
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Hi, 
I would also suggest Women and War by Jack Hilton Cunningham at Sam French, What I Want to Say But Never Will & The Long View by Alan Haehnel at Playscripts.  

Sounds like a wonderful unit!  

Carolyn

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Carolyn Cork Greer
Kentucky Thespians
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-13-2017 16:28
From: Jodi Disario
Subject: Plays of monologues

Hi all! My intermediate drama class will be finishing up their monologue unit in a couple of weeks. Because I want the class to be a mix of performance and literature study, I'm trying to find a play for them to study that is made up of mostly monologues. I looked at "Runaways," but I don't want to start with music. "Waiting for the Parade" was a favorite of mine from high school, but the class is split pretty evenly along gender lines, and I want the boys to be as involved as the girls.

Any title suggestions?

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Jodi Disario
Director of Drama
Willow Glen High School
San Jose, CA
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SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY is an oldie but goodie that is all monologues. You can double up on the casting if necessary for your class and give students experience in voice acting. Show was originally meant to be a small cast.  And THE LARAMIE PROJECT which deals with the Matthew Shepard story and hate crime (quite relevant for today). I recently did it with a cast of 20 and each actor played 2 to 3 roles each.

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Floyd Nash
[Theatre teacher]
Deerfield Beach High
Deerfield Beach, FL
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-14-2017 03:21
From: Carolyn Greer
Subject: Plays of monologues

Hi,
I would also suggest Women and War by Jack Hilton Cunningham at Sam French, What I Want to Say But Never Will & The Long View by Alan Haehnel at Playscripts.

Sounds like a wonderful unit!

Carolyn

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Carolyn Cork Greer
Kentucky Thespians

Original Message:
Sent: 09-13-2017 16:28
From: Jodi Disario
Subject: Plays of monologues

Hi all! My intermediate drama class will be finishing up their monologue unit in a couple of weeks. Because I want the class to be a mix of performance and literature study, I'm trying to find a play for them to study that is made up of mostly monologues. I looked at "Runaways," but I don't want to start with music. "Waiting for the Parade" was a favorite of mine from high school, but the class is split pretty evenly along gender lines, and I want the boys to be as involved as the girls.

Any title suggestions?

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Jodi Disario
Director of Drama
Willow Glen High School
San Jose, CA
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Original Message------

Hi all! My intermediate drama class will be finishing up their monologue unit in a couple of weeks. Because I want the class to be a mix of performance and literature study, I'm trying to find a play for them to study that is made up of mostly monologues. I looked at "Runaways," but I don't want to start with music. "Waiting for the Parade" was a favorite of mine from high school, but the class is split pretty evenly along gender lines, and I want the boys to be as involved as the girls.

Any title suggestions?

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Jodi Disario
Director of Drama
Willow Glen High School
San Jose, CA
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Original Message------

Hi all! My intermediate drama class will be finishing up their monologue unit in a couple of weeks. Because I want the class to be a mix of performance and literature study, I'm trying to find a play for them to study that is made up of mostly monologues. I looked at "Runaways," but I don't want to start with music. "Waiting for the Parade" was a favorite of mine from high school, but the class is split pretty evenly along gender lines, and I want the boys to be as involved as the girls.

Any title suggestions?

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Jodi Disario
Director of Drama
Willow Glen High School
San Jose, CA
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