Synopses & Reviews
"Mr. Bogosian has crossed the line that separates an exciting artist from a cultural hero. What Lenny Bruce was to the 1950s, Bob Dylan to the 1960s, Woody Allen to the 1970sthat's what Eric Bogosian is to this frightening moment of drift... I know of no one else like him in pop culture right now." - Frank Rich,
New York Times100 (monologues) collects all of Eric Bogosian's monologues, originally performed as part of his six off-Broadway solo shows, including Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee; Drinking in America; Funhouse; Men Inside and selections from his play Talk Radio. For these solo shows, first performed between 1980 and 2000, Bogosian was awarded three Obie awards and a Drama Desk awardearning him living icon status in the downtown theater scene.
One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian's plays and solo shows include Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist); subUrbia; Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, among many others. He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
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Complete and collected monologues by legendary playwright and performer Eric Bogosian.
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"Bogosian's a born storyteller with perfect pitch."The New York Times
"Greatly and bilaterally talented . . . spiky, stinging, caustic without cauterizing. And funny."New York
This new collection by one of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists includes one hundred monologues from his acclaimed plays and solo shows including: Drinking in America; Men Inside; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, and more. Also included are additional pieces from the Pulitzer Prize finalist Talk Radio and Notes from Underground.
Eric Bogosian has received three Obie awards and has toured throughout the country. His other well-known pieces include the solo performances FunHouse and Wake Up and Smell The Coffee and the full-length plays Suburbia, Griller, Red Angel, and Humpty Dumpty. He is the author of two novels, Mall and Wasted Beauty, and a novella, Notes from Underground. As an actor, Bogosian has appeared in numerous films and television programs, including Robert Altman's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Atom Egoyan's Ararat, Woody Allen's Oscar-nominated Deconstructing Harry (1997), and Law and Order: Criminal Intent (20062010).