60 Seconds to Shine Volume V: 101 Original One-minute Monologues for Women Ages 18-25
161 One-Minute Monologues from Literature is an eclectic anthology derived from novels, short stories, memoirs, narrative poetry and essays, indexed by gender, age, tone, voice and author. Editors John Capecci and Irene Ziegler Aston include both classic and recent material, and authors as varied as Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.G. Wells, William Goldman, Fannie Hurst and Rita Mae Brown. This is an exceptional collection of unusual material for audition and study purposes. --Stage Directions-Off The Shelf, May 2008<br /><br />Capecci and Aston's latest addition to their "60 Seconds" entries ranges far and wide for its contents. Classified as comic, dramatic, seriocomic, and classical, they run the gamut from Benjamin Franklin and Mary Shelley through Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Bret Easton Ellis and a helping of previously unpublished writers. An equal number of monologs is provided for men and women, and helpful indexes guide the reader to appropriate ages and voices of the speaker. Barbara Casey's "The Coach's Wife" is good, but the best in the collection is Brian Graham's "David Caruso Scolds His Cat About Its Lackadaisical Litter-Box Use." Both volumes are recommended to the monolog hunter and for public and college libraries, especially if other volumes in the series are present.Larry Schwartz, Minnesota State Univ., --Library Journal, March 2008<br /><br />If brevity is the soul of a good audition, then these titles will prove a great resource. . . --Choice