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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-10135018165X

ISBN-139781350181656

eBay Product ID (ePID)21060730841

Product Key Features

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameVespers : 100 Monologues for Everyone

SubjectTheater / Playwriting, Acting & Auditioning, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2023

TypeStudy Guide

AuthorPhilip Ridley

Subject AreaDrama, Performing Arts

SeriesAudition Speeches Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN2023-006813

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsRidley's play is completely and dizzyingly of itself. The writing seethes and burns....Seldom has sexual love been explored on stage with such ferocious honesty., " The Vespers is utterly amazing. Ridley's writing is marvelously precise and constantly surprising in its twists and turns. At every point he manages to evoke ideas and feelings that are both thrilling and true. It's a supreme achievement by the most innovative and exciting contemporary British writer, whose words dazzle, make you think of the unthinkable, and tune you into wild and wonderful emotions that seem to echo from beyond the text. Read and be transported." -- Aleks Sierz "Ridley's play is completely and dizzyingly of itself. The writing seethes and burns....Seldom has sexual love been explored on stage with such ferocious honesty." -- The Guardian (on Tender Napalm) "Outstanding....Ridley at his imaginative best...his most moving and accessible adult play to date." -- WhatsonStage (on Shivered), " The Vespers is utterly amazing. Ridley's writing is marvelously precise and constantly surprising in its twists and turns. At every point he manages to evoke ideas and feelings that are both thrilling and true. It's a supreme achievement by the most innovative and exciting contemporary British writer, whose words dazzle, make you think of the unthinkable, and tune you into wild and wonderful emotions that seem to echo from beyond the text. Read and be transported." -- Aleks Sierz "Ridley is delving into a sulphurous imagination for some of the most potent and indelible images you're likely to find this side of sleep" -- Scotland on Sunday "Philip Ridley doesn't write plays so much as dark hallucinations in which the world is skewed through his penetrating vision, so we look at it through new eyes" -- Guardian

Dewey Decimal808.8245

SynopsisPhilip Ridley's The Vespers is a major work by a major writer. 100 original self-contained monologues for actors (and readers) of all genders, all ages and all levels of experience. Varying in length, style and structure - from the surreally comic to the heartbreakingly tragic - this is an essential toolkit for any actor (or anyone who enjoys a good story) with an introduction by Cath Badharn, Lecturer in Performance at the University of Derby, UK., Have you ever struggled to find the perfect monologue? Do you want to lose yourself in an unforgettable story? Do you want to be...transported? Philip Ridley's The Vespers is a major work by a major writer. 100 original, self-contained monologues for actors (and readers) of all genders, all ages, and all levels of experience. Varying in length, style and structure - from the surreally comic to the heartbreakingly tragic - this is an essential toolkit for any actor (or anyone who enjoys a good story) with an introduction by Cath Badham, Lecturer in Performance at the University of Derby, UK.

LC Classification NumberPN2080.R53 2023