Talene Monahon

Talene Monahon is an American actress and playwright.

Childhood and education

Monahon grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts.[1] She is a 2013 graduate of Dartmouth College.[2]

Monahon was a child actor in regional and amateur productions in the Boston area.[3][1][2]

How to Load a Musket

How to Load a Musket, Monahon's play about historical reenactment was produced as a staged reading at the Cape Cod Theatre Project in 2017,[4] and had its premier production at Manhattan's 59E59 Theaters in January 2020.[5][6][7][8]

Monahon began researching historical reenactment in 2015, first interviewing Revolutionary War reenacters in Massachusetts and News York, then interviewing Civil War reenacters and performance artist Dread Scott who produced a 2017 reenactment of the 1811 German Coast uprising. Mohahon's play is created entirely from the words of her politically, ethnically and socioeconomically diverse interviewees, whose views of their hobby evolve over the years during which the interviews took place.[9][6]

Acting

Monahon has performed on stage in New York and other cities.[10][11][12][13][14] New York Times theater critic Laura Collins-Hughes describes Monahon as playing Blanche Sartorious in George Bernard Shaw's Widower's Houses "with such take-no-prisoners ferocity that she awakened the sleeping man in front of me during a fight scene."[12] Terry Teachout, theater critic for the Wall Street Journal described Monahon's as playing Blanche as, "a startlingly predatory vampire," in a production of Shaw's work that was "as good as it gets."[15]

References
  1. Killeen, Wendy (24 July 2005). "French Impressions". Boston Globe.
  2. Schreiber, Katherine (12 October 2015). "Monahon '13 discusses her acting career". The Dartmouth. University News Wire.
  3. "'Oz' playing in Wellesley, with a twist". Boston Globe. 16 March 2006. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  4. "CCTP Presents 'How To Load A Musket'". The Enterprise. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  5. "HOW TO LOAD A MUSKETmakes world premiere at 59E59 Theaters" (PDF). 59e59.org. 59E59. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  6. Soloski, Alexis (16 January 2020). "'How to Load a Musket' Review: A Play About Re-enactors Gets Real". New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  7. Chadwick, Bruce. "A Play About Historical Reenactors Grapples With American Identity". History News Network. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  8. Snook, Raven (21 January 2020). "How to Load a Musket". Time Out New York.
  9. Clement, Olivia (25 November 2019). "Adam Chanler-Berat, Carolyn Braver, Ryan Spahn, More Tapped for World Premiere of How to Load a Musket". Playbill. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  10. Phillips, Maya (9 October 2019). "Review: Stuck in Maine in 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'". New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  11. Brantley, Ben (16 December 2018). "Review: Stockard Channing Is a Mother to Remember in 'Apologia'". New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  12. Collins-Hughes, Laura (14 March 2016). "Review: In 'Widowers' Houses,' Loving a Slumlord's Daughter". New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  13. Sommers, Michael (17 January 2020). "How to Load a Musket: Re-creating Your Own Personal American History". New York Stage Review. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  14. Windman, Matt (2 June 2017). "'The Government Inspector' review: Talented cast romps in high-energy, fast-paced farce". Newsday.
  15. Teachout, Terry (22 March 2016). "'Widowers' Houses' Review: The Things We Do for Money". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
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