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HEART SPEAK, Monologues for Men and Women

by Christopher Woods

A collection of two monologue shows, "Women Alone" and "Lover, Killer, Angel, Thief."

Cover art: Original Watercolor by Angie Fenton.

Published by Stone River Press
ISBN 0-9627844-8-6

5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Paperback with Perfect Binding
104 Pages of 10 monologues each for men and women with Note space.

Dramatist, poet, short story writer Christopher Woods has a knack for getting to the heart of a character that is hard to match. He is as adept at exploring a woman's sexuality as he is at peeling to the core a man's fears and foibles. Taken from his hundred or so brief fiction stories, this cast of lovable, quirky characters are a delight to perform as well as to read.

FROM "CHIMAYO"

I can tell you about the road to Chimayo. I can tell you about other roads. But no matter what I say, I can't change the reason why we had to go there. Not hope or prayer or doubt can change a thing. . . .What did I know about shrines? Not a thing. Pictures of Lourdes and Fatima in magazines. I knew they were desperate places. They would have to be, just to exist. To lure the damned. Certainly, no one I knew had ever gone.

CHRISTOPHER WOODS has had plays produced off-off-Broadway, in Houston, Ft. Worth, Memphis, Minneapolis, Providence, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Santa Fe and New York City. Critics have applauded his flair for short one-character playlets as evidenced in Heart Speak. He has also published over 300 short stories and poems and his novel The Dream Patch has been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird. Under a Riverbed Sky, a collection of some of his prose poetry and brief fiction pieces has recently been published by Panther Creek Press. He is the recipient of a Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation grant and residencies from the Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation. He lives in Houston, where he has taught writing workshops at Rice University Continuing Studies Program, The Women’s Institute, and by correspondence.

FOR ACTORS, WRITERS, PRODUCERS, READERS AND THOSE INTERESTED IN THE ART OF CHARACTERIZATION