LitPick Review
From her teaching experience, the author has created a series of fifty-one monologues to help students enhance their performing arts skills. She divided the work into sections for young women, young men and all youth. Her stage directions offer young actors guidelines for presentation. Each monologue is a story in itself and invites the performer to see situations from the eyes of other youth. The voice and tone varies in each piece and covers ground from humorous to tragic.
Opinion:
The book is a series of monologue for students in the performing arts. Although the vocabulary is appropriate for the large age range(7 -18), some adjustment may be necessary to meet the needs of individual students. The scenes could provide further discussion about issues facing young people. Students not in performing arts could appreciate the opportunity to explore ways of expressing emotions in a wide variety of situations. Students, parents, teachers and therapists may find this book useful to begin a conversation with young people about issues of growing up.
