ABSTRACT

Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that represent African-American, Native American, Latino, and Asian-American identities. Each monologue comes with an introduction and notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor.

This new edition now includes more of the most exciting and accomplished playwrights to have emerged over the 15 years since the Monologues for Actors of Color books were first published, from new, cutting edge talent to Pulitzer winners.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

chapter |2 pages

Big Butt Girls, Hard Headed Women

Rhodessa Jones

chapter |2 pages

Blues for Mr. Charlie

James Baldwin

chapter |6 pages

Breaking Glass

Dmae Roberts

chapter |4 pages

Cleveland Raining

Sung Rno

chapter |4 pages

Cloud Tectonics

chapter |4 pages

Come Down Burning

Kia Corthron

chapter |4 pages

Diary of a Madwoman Chin Woon Ping

chapter |4 pages

Flyin' West

Pearl Cleage

chapter |2 pages

Foghorn

Hanay Geiogamah

chapter |4 pages

Funnyhouse of a Negro

Adrienne Kennedy

chapter |4 pages

Giving Up the Ghost

Cherríe Moraga

chapter |6 pages

The Have-Little

Migdalia Cruz

chapter |2 pages

How Else Am I Supposed to Know I'm Still Alive

Evelina Fernandez

chapter |4 pages

The LA LA Awards

Latins Anonymous (Luisa Leschin, Armando Molina, Rick Nájera, Diane Rodríguez)

chapter |4 pages

Latins Anonymous

Latins Anonymous (Luisa Leschin, Armando Molina, Rick Nájera, Diane Rodriguez)

chapter |4 pages

Les Femmes Noires Edgar White

chapter |2 pages

The Lion and the Jewel Wole Soyinka

chapter |4 pages

Long Time Since Yesterday P. J. Gibson

chapter |2 pages

Miriam's Flowers Migdalia Cruz

chapter |2 pages

The Mojo and the Sayso Aishah Rahman

chapter |4 pages

My Ancestor's House

Bina Sharif

chapter |2 pages

Night of the Assassins José Triana

chapter |2 pages

Paper Angels Genny Urn

chapter |4 pages

R.A.W. ('Cause I'ma Woman) Diana Son

chapter |2 pages

The Rez Sisters

Tomson Highway

chapter |2 pages

Roosters

Milcha Sanchez-Scott

chapter |2 pages

Sneaky

William S. Yellow Robe

chapter |2 pages

Someday

Drew Hayden Taylor

chapter |8 pages

Talking in Tongues

Winsome Pinnock

chapter |4 pages

Unmerciful Good Fortune

Edwin Sánchez

chapter |2 pages

Wines in the Wilderness Alice Childress

chapter |1 pages

Acknowledgments

chapter |4 pages

Permissions and Play Sources