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    Built For Abuse II: Acting Monologues For Women
    Built For Abuse II: Acting Monologues For Women
    Built For Abuse II: Acting Monologues For Women
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    Built For Abuse II: Acting Monologues For Women

    By Joshua Todd James

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    Playwright and screenwriter Joshua James has gathered thirty monologues for women, collected from his plays 2 VERY DANGEROUS PEOPLE SHARING 1 SMALL SPACE, RUNNING IN PLACE, OLD DOG and many more, for actors to use for auditions, scene study or solo performance projects.

    "Joshua James' work is bold, intelligent and subversive. Read it. Then find a way to make it happen on stage. American theater is clogged with the paltry visions of the privileged class, which assure us that the world we live in does not need immediate and radical change. James' work pulls the plug on sentimentality and comfort on stage. His work is at times dark, disturbing, but always arresting and shot through with a fine sense of humour."
    - Obie-award winning playwright Naomi Wallace

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoshua Todd James
    Release dateSep 15, 2016
    ISBN9781370588008
    Built For Abuse II: Acting Monologues For Women
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    Joshua Todd James

    JOSHUA TODD JAMES is a screenwriter, novelist and playwright based in New York City. As a playwright, Joshua made his London debut when The Men's Room was produced at the Croydon Warehouse Theatre. He made his Off-Broadway debut in The Fear Project at The Barrow Group with his piece Extreme Eugene. His plays have been produced throughout New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, all across the United States and various other parts of the world. His most recent books are THE JOSHUA JAMES PROJECT, an anthology of forty-four short plays that are now royalty-free for educational and amateur production and THE PENIS PAPERS, a free ebook of his popular play.His film credits include POUND OF FLESH, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Joshua loves ice-cold tea, cool summer breezes and hot Brazilian Jiujitsu, though not necessarily in that order.

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      Built For Abuse II - Joshua Todd James

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      This book is a short collection of acting monologues for WOMEN. Female roles of various ages, races and sexuality. The monologues were selected from the following plays: 2 VERY DANGEROUS PEOPLE SHARING 1 SMALL SPACE, THE ELF, THE BUNNY AND THE BIG XMAS BLOWUP, RUNNING IN PLACE, OLD DOG, THE JOSHUA JAMES PROJECT and the as-of-yet unpublished plays: THE HOT NAKED TRUTH and THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE. If you’re interested in either of the latter two, you can contact me via my Facebook page WRITER JOSHUA JAMES

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      Most often the race and cultural background of the character doesn’t matter, with the main exception of THE HOT NAKED TRUTH, in which the race of the character is significant. But for the rest, one can be of any cultural background and it should work. If you don’t find what you need here, there are many more in the collections: THE JOSHUA JAMES PROJECT, SPOOGE: THE SEX & LOVE MONOLOGUES and The THE Plays. Check all those plays out in full and thanks.

      Photos are courtesy of / and feature actress Carrie Keranen, a veteran of many of my plays and an absolutely awesome talent.

      ON RIGHTS:

      The work in this collection is under my copyright and I reserve all other rights, including professional, motion pictures, radio broadcasting, television, and the rights of translation into foreign languages, all those rights are strictly reserved. Copying from this book in whole or in part is forbidden by law, and the right of performance is not transferable.

      Performance rights of the following are free for amateur and educational productions (the sole exception being the excerpt from SPOOGE: THE SEX & LOVE MONOLOGUES, which is covered by a performance royalty, check the link). You have my permission, just check the guidelines and requirements as listed in THE JOSHUA JAMES PROJECT for more information on staging an actual performance without royalty. This collection is free, you can use any and all of them for auditions, classroom study, whatever you need. I remember how hard it was the find the right monologue way back when I was an actor, so have fun.

      All I ask is that you leave a review of this book and the above plays online, wherever you see them. Every review matters, and it gets the word out.

      You can follow me via my Facebook page WRITER JOSHUA JAMES.

      Pauline On The Plane

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      THE JOSHUA JAMES PROJECT

      (Pauline sits on a plane. She speaks to a MAN next to her on the plane.)

      PAULINE: I’m scared to death of flying. I was scared of it before, you know, before THAT THING, the THING that happened as it happened, I was scared enough before then, as if flying isn’t frightening enough as it is, flying a machine thousands of feet in the air with a million working parts on it and thus the potential for a million things to go wrong, it’s pretty fucking frightening on ITS OWN, now add to that we have to worry that some demented fruitcake is going to whip out his toothbrush and commandeer the flight, crash it into his ex-girlfriend’s house as a way of getting back at her, and the corporate powers-that-be will sit back and let him do it, write it off as an insurance loss and another reason to hike up the price of fares.

      I can see that happening, can’t you see that happening? I can see that happening.

      Not that it’s much safer on the ground. Bullets flying everywhere, stores being robbed, cars crashing into each other, bricks falling from buildings, even bodies falling from buildings. I heard about this guy, committed suicide because his wife was leaving, jumped from his office window, fourteen stories high, landed on a woman who was just walking by. Killed the woman, the guy survived. She died, he lived. You’re not safe anywhere. I’m scared to death even to walk

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