New One Act-Plays for Acting Students: A New Anthology of Complete One-Act Plays for One, Two or Three Actors
Grade 7 Up-The short plays and monologues in this collection deal with many subjects-suicide, anorexia, abortion, mental illness, Vietnam, etc.-all topics that should evoke a high level of emotion from acting students. The selections range in effectiveness from the poignant "Mikey's Chair," in which a brother tries to come to terms with an accident that has left his sibling in a vegetative state, to the confusing "Clubs," which observes the lives of three childhood acquaintances over the course of time. There is some useful and affecting material here, but none of it is remarkable. Purchase only for collections specializing in the performing arts.Ronni Krasnow, New York Public LibraryCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.