Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that represent African-American, Native American, Latino, and Asian-American identities. Each monologue comes with an introduction and notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor. This new edition now includes more of the most exciting and accomplished playwrights to have emerged over the 15 years since the Monologues for Actors of Color books were first published, from new, cutting edge talent to Pulitzer winners.
This new edition of Roberta Uno''s wide-ranging Monologues for Actors of Color now includes more of the most exciting and accomplished playwrights to have emerged over the 15 years since the first edition was published, from new, cutting edge talent to Pulitzer winners. It responds to the increasing importance of diversity in contemporary performance by even further widening its range of genders, ages, sexes and ethnicities.
