Synopses & Reviews
Corvettes and Rt. 66. Bus and truck tours of Broadway musicals. Summers spent in the back seats of station wagons--"Are we there yet?" The road has inspired writers for years, from the first pioneers to open the American West to Kerouac, and now more than twenty playwrights offer their visions of the voices of the road.
Theatre people travel a lot. We know what it's like to be on the road. And we know the voices that can come from the road. These monologues are a stunning evocation of this country's fascination with two or four wheels and the blacktop. From Michael Wright's manic motorcyclist taking on the streets of Manhattan, to Steve Feffer's McDonald's girl wanting to head west to join a rock band, to Gay Davidson-Zielske's coffin-haulin' mama, these are authentic tarmac voices.
These stage-tested monologues make perfect audition pieces or, taken together, a moving night of theatre that will really rev up audiences.
Synopsis
These stage-tested monologues make perfect audition pieces or, taken together, a moving night of theatre that will really rev up audiences.
About the Author
Lavonne Mueller is a published playwright, textbook author, editor, and Fulbright Fellow. She has had more than ten plays produced Off-Broadway and her play The Only Woman General earned the Critic's Choice award at the Edinburgh Festival. She is currently a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in playwriting. Mueller is editor of Elvis Monologues (1997) and Baseball Monologues (1996), both published by Heinemann.
Table of Contents
Northeast
Steal This Book, Laura Quinn - NYC, Michael Wright - Nobody's Business, Margaret Hunt - What's Next, Bill Evans - New Haven, El Cortes - A Sense of Direction, L. A. Barnett - Bitten by an Unusual Fly in the Blue Night of Lubec, Joanna K. Sit - Advice to the Ingenue, Judy GeBauer - The Martyr of Avalon, Cara B. McClintock - Dual Heads, Shelley Berc - The Barber of Emlenton, Steve Feffer
The South
Job Hunting, Melissa Scott - Destiny Unknown, Hendrika Schuster - Skyland, Tad Curry - A Few Degrees Off Course, Edgar H. Thompson - Road Kills, L. A. Barnett - Last Hair Cut at Bob Sir's Mobile Barbershop, Ralph Pennel
The Virtual Highway
www.bitchinhitchin.com, Andr,a J. Onstad
Midwest
The McDonald's Girl, Steve Feffer - First Lady of the Road, Lavonne Mueller - No Offense, Gay Davidson-Zielske - God's Highway, Lavonne Mueller - Crosstown, Cynthia Stofiel - Christine, I Brought Steaks, Maureen McCoy - Consumer Report, Cynthia Stofiel - Teaching by Example, Richard Plant - Someday There'll Be Roads, Judy GeBauer
West
Sixty-Six, Michael Wright - Rules of Thumb, Maureen McCoy - Roadkill, Elena Carrillo - Lavonne, Jan Buttram - Love, Albuqueque-Style, Carol Hegberg - The Indifferent Fruit, Tamar Perla - "Goin' to L.A.", Vivian West - Runaway, Carol and W. David Hegberg - Fear of Falling: A Travel Monologue, Norman A. Bert - Signage, Sharon Houck Ross