DescriptionJoyce Grenfell was known and loved all over the world for her monologues, her songs, and her comic writing. Her career, which spanned more than 30 years, saw her work in many different areas. From wartime entertainment tours to performances on radio, stage, and screen, all were graced with Joyce's usual charm, humour, and talent. As she tells the story of her long and varied career, Joyce sketches wonderful comic descriptions of the many people encountered along the way. Her glamorous and madcap American mother, her aunt Nancy Astor, and her beloved husband Reggie are just some of the larger-than-life characters that people this captivating reading.
Descriptionthe machinery behind what I was making was kind of sophisticated, but I didn't want it to look sophisticated, says Eric Bogosian in this engaging interview in which he discusses his career and creative processes. "My stance in the world is confusion seeking some kind of wisdom, " says the 3 time Obie winner and author of Talk Radio . His characters are meant to embody "the foibles and mores of our time." Bogosian explains how he develops his monologues, which follow "a rhythm of ideas, " along with patterns of speech. His goal is to create empathy by creating "excuses for actors to chew some scenery and to bounce around out there, because that will be the ultimate manifestation of the piece."…
DescriptionFor nearly 25 years the two Ronnies were a TV institution, a much loved double-act but each with his own inimitable, individual appeal. Who could forget Ronnie Barker's hilarious pispronounciation, Mr Corbett's witty monologues, the risque limericks, the puns, the patter and the parody? So enjoy another fun-filled feast of verbal fireworks, inspired classic comedy from the two one-offs who said goodnight but not goodbye.
DescriptionMeet some of Eric Bogosian's unforgettable characters - the stud, the nostalgic drug dealer, the money-hungry spiritual guru, the molecule-spewing derelict sitting next to you on the train, and more. Bogosian performed these solos as well as some of his favorite riffs from his OBIE-award winning shows, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee live at Bob Holman's Bowery Poetry Club in NYC on July 28, 2003. Explicit Language Warning: You Must be 18 years or older to purchase this program .
DescriptionRejection has never been so hilarious! After her role in a Woody Allen play was rethought, actress Annabelle Gurwitch (TBS' Dinner and a Movie ) was devastated. Then, she got funny. Gurwitch and a revolving cast of fellow show-biz veterans share the…
DescriptionWritten initially in French, later translated by the author into English, Molloy is the first book in Dublin-born Samuel Beckett's trilogy. It was published shortly after WWII and marked a new, mature writing style, which was to dominate the remainder of his working life. Molloy is less a novel than a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy and his pursuer, Moran. In the first section, while consumed with the search of his mother, Molloy lost everything. Moran takes over in the second half, describing his hunt for Molloy. Within this simple outline, spoken in the first person, is a remarkable story, raising the questions of being and aloneness that marks so much of Beckett's work, but is richly comic as well. Beautifully written, it is one of the masterpieces of Irish literature.
