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All the Feelings: Hella Dramatic Monologues for Thespians of a Teen Age
All the Feelings: Hella Dramatic Monologues for Thespians of a Teen Age
All the Feelings: Hella Dramatic Monologues for Thespians of a Teen Age
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All the Feelings: Hella Dramatic Monologues for Thespians of a Teen Age

By Mike Levine

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Young actors: Give the boot to Neil Labute. Tell Christopher Durang he’s no thang. This ground-breaking book of Grade-A meaty monologues is designed to help teen-aged actorians express their feelings through The Magic of The Theatre. Flip to any page and start reading aloud. You’ll be getting attention in no time!
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PublisherDevastator Press
Release dateJun 10, 2016
ISBN9781942099215
All the Feelings: Hella Dramatic Monologues for Thespians of a Teen Age
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Mike Levine

Three days a week for more than 20 years, Mike Levine wrote newspaper col¬umns that stood up for the little guy, celebrated the lives of everyday people and shined a light on the darkness of corrupt and inept public servants. This book represents a distillation of some of the best of those columns. Many knew Mike as a columnist for the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y., and later as executive editor of the newspaper. In life, Mike was a short guy, but in the world of journalism, he was a giant. His columns were filled with stories of parenthood and family and of living in the Hudson Valley. He wrote about his work as an editor and columnist and served as a watchdog that challenged the arrogance of the powerful and held them accountable. Equal parts preacher, mentor, comic and salesman, Mike sometimes talked about Tikkun olam, Hebrew for “repair of the world,” a concept that speaks to an aspiration to behave and act constructively and beneficially for the rest of the world. His work embraced that principle. Mike died in 2007 at the age of 54. He left this world too soon, but the legacy he left behind lives on in the hearts of many. This book is a tribute to that legacy. For more information, please see www.MikeLevineBook.com or www.TheSagerGroup.net.

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    All the Feelings - Mike Levine

    ALL THE FEELINGS

    Hella Dramatic Monologues for Thespians of a Teen Age

    M. F. A. Levine, MFA*

    *Master of Feeling Arts

    Written by
    MIKE LEVINE

    ...

    Edited and Designed by

    GEOFFREY GOLDEN

    AMANDA MEADOWS

    Cover Art:

    Theater by David Lopez from Noun Project

    Theater by Max Hancock from Noun Project

    Copyright © 2016 The Devastator and Mike Levine.

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this parody can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the copyright owner.

    ISBN-10: 1-942099-21-5

    ISBN-13: 978-1-942099-21-5

    First Edition: July 2016

    devastatorpress.com

    PRINTED IN OFF-OFF-OFF-OFF-BROADWAY KOREA

    All the Feelings is a work of satire. All names and characters who appear in this parody

    are fictional and satirical representations. Any similarities to All the Feelings creations and living persons are purely coincidental. Also, don’t sue us. We have no money!

    To my theatre teachers, Christine Farrell and Andy Spear, whom I did not need but enjoyed my time with nevertheless.

    PRAISE FROM REAL LIFE ACTORS

    This book will make you the hit of your high school thespian conference, impressing tech-theatre girls wearing faerie wings and drama teachers with uncontrollable rage issues alike!

    –DC Pierson, Author of Crap Kingdom, Mayor in Bye Bye Birdie, Mountain Pointe Theatre Company ‘02

    As both an actor and an acting teacher, I alone understand the importance of listening solely to myself while simultaneously demanding others listen only to me. This book is a reminder that feelings are weapons, and weapons, as I imagine the famous educator Maria Montessori would have said, ‘exist only as a means to slay your audience with a fresh soliloquy.’ Well done, Levine!

    –Dr. Matt Gourley, Drunk History

    If this book had existed when I was starting out, God knows where I would have ended up.

    –James Urbaniak, The Venture Bros & Difficult People

    There are two things I can’t stand: humor books, and one person shows. That said, dibs on the one person show of this humor book. I CALLED DIBS!

    –Laura Silverman, Bob’s Burgers

    INTRODUCTION

    Congratulations, young actor! Simply by picking up this book, you have already felt something.

    Before we dive into the marvelous world of monologues, an introduction. I’m M. F. A. Levine, MFA – which stands for Michael Francis Alberto Levine, Master of the Feeling Arts. In my adventures in the theater, I’ve written one-act plays, sketches, skits, routines, scenes, and two-act plays – often to completion! Because of my uncompromising passion and unwillingness to revise my material, I’ve been kicked out of ensembles, troupes, groups, schools, workshops, tech booths, rehearsals, and theater lobbies. I’ve had so many problems with collaboration, it took me a while to identify the common factor: Other people!

    Once I found myself alone, that’s when I really found myself. Even though I didn’t go solo voluntarily, it led me to the last pure art form: Monologues! If you’re reading this and silently mouthing the words to yourself, practicing gestures with your free hand, you’re probably on the same path. I needed to write characters at my level of intelligence and maturity, and you needed something to read out loud to hear your own voice. We both really needed this book.

    As a young actor, you don’t need any secret acting trick or magical drama amulet to make a great performance. I’m here to show you that you had the power of All the Feelings inside yourself this whole time! No acting school or technique can teach you what you already have bursting forth at all times. You don’t have to know anything to feel everything!

    Let’s get started!

    *It’s pronounced Levine.

    Q & A

    Before we get started, why don’t we do something bold and nontraditional and start with a Q & A?

    Q: What is a monologue?

    A: A better question would be: What isn’t a monologue?

    Q: Okay, what isn’t a monologue?

    A: A Scene. Scenes are awful. Scenes are when two or more actors fight for attention, forcing the audience to ping-pong back and forth like some sort of small-scale tennis match. No audience wants the responsibility of directing their own focus. In

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