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Talking With...

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  11w

Jane Martin

Winner! 1982 American Theatre Critics Association Award, Best Regional Play

"A dramatist with an original voice... [and] gladsome humor." - The New York Times

Talking With...

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    11w
  • Suggested Use
    • Monologues
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 1982 American Theatre Critics Association Award, Best Regional Play

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Summary
These extraordinary monologues received a standing ovation at Louisville's Actors Theatre. Idiosyncratic characters amuse, move and frighten, always speaking from the depths of their souls. They include a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex rodeo rider and an actress willing to go to any length to get a job.
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"A dramatist with an original voice... [and] gladsome humor." - The New York Times

"With Jane Martin, the monologue has taken on a new poetic form, intensive in its method and revelatory in its impact." - Philadelphia Inquirer

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    £30 per play individually
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Jane Martin

Jane Martin
Jane Martin, a Kentuckian, first came to national attention for Talking With, a collection of monologues premiering in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 1982 Humana Festival of New American Plays. Since its New York premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1982, Talking With has be ...
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