Synopses & Reviews
In this collection of thirty-four monologues, Michael Kearns challenges the actor to identify with characters that cross the lines of age, race, gender, class, and sexual preference. The monologues are about people who have lives beyond their health status and they represent one artist's response to the AIDS crisis. T-Cells &Sympathy stands as a testament to Kearns' philosophy that it is the actor's "responsibility to play all things human."
Review
. . . We need a place where the solo-inclined could learn to write a good monologue. Thanks to Michael Kearns, now there is such a place. . . . So, Mr. Unnamed soloist, buy this book, read it, and learn from a great writer how to write for the theater. As for the rest of you, buy this book for the pleasure it will give you.San Francisco Weekly
Synopsis
In this collection of thirty-four monologues, Michael Kearns challenges the actor to identify with characters that cross the lines of age, race, gender, class, and sexual preference.
Synopsis
Exceptional monologues about characters whose lives have been touched in some way by AIDS and how it has affected them.
About the Author
Michael Kearns has been a fixture in the world of art and politics for more than three decades, combining a mainstream career in film and television with a prolific theatrical resume that includes writing, acting, directing, and producing. His intimate connection to the two plays he chronicles in emotional detail in The Drama of AIDS began in the mid-eighties. Wearing various artistic hats, Michael contributed to the premieres of Robert Chesley's Jerker and James Carroll Pickett's Dream Man. And more than twenty years later, he remains closely involved with them. Solo performance has also been a defining feature of his career, and he has been involved with dozens of one-person shows, including many that he wrote and performed such as intimacies, Rock, Attachments, and Make Love Not War. He is also the author of several books with Heinemann, including T-Cells & Sympathy, Acting = Life (both nominated for Lambda Awards), Getting Your Solo Act Together, Life Expectancies, and The Solo Performer's Journey.