Fifty essential classical monologues by the great world dramatists These great dramatic monologues - from all periods and styles, all varied in tone and genre - make an indispensable actor's companion for auditioning, rehearsing and performing. Contains extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Ford, Behn, Congreve, Wycherley, Sheridan, Vanburgh, Racine, Moliere, Calderon, Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Checkhov, Synge, Wilde and Shaw plus many more. Each monologue is accompanied by editors' commentaries and textual notes that point the beginner and the experienced actor towards the riches and challenges that lie waiting to be released on stage.
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Fifty essential classical monologues by the great world dramatists These great dramatic monologues - from all periods and styles, all varied in tone and genre - make an indispensable actor's companion for auditioning, rehearsing and performing. Contains extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Ford, Behn, Congreve, Wycherley, Sheridan, Vanburgh, Racine, Moliere, Calderon, Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Checkhov, Synge, Wilde and Shaw plus many more. Each monologue is accompanied by editors' commentaries and textual notes that point the beginner and the experienced actor towards the riches and challenges that lie waiting to be released on stage.
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• 1. Shakespeare.--2. Shakespeare & friends.

• v. 1. Young men's roles
• v. 2. Older men's roles
• v. 3. Women--
• v. 4. From the restoration to Bernard Shaw

The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre - and the plays most constantly performed are represented in this unique collection. Playwrights include: Ayckbourn, Bond, Beckett, Berkoff, Brecht, Coward, Fugard, Genet, Ionesco, Jarry, Miller, O'Neill, Orton, Osborne, Sartre, Shaw, Stoppard and Tennessee Williams plus many more. A fuller appreciation of each speech is enhanced by the editors' introductions and commentaries that set the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance contexts.
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This text provides what should be a demanding and challenging selection of audition speeches for actors and actresses.
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This superb volume brings together a collection of the works of over 70 playwrights, spotlighting the very best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental writings since the turn of the 21st century."One on One" begins with a special section which shows readers how to choose, practice, and perform a speech for auditions. Comic or serious - or both - these monologues have been written for young and old actors by famous names and up-and-coming talent.Works include "House Arrest" by Anna Deavere Smith; "Gem of the Ocean" by August Wilson; David Auburn's "Are You Ready?"; Brain Dykstra's "The Committee", and many more.
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This text provides what should be a demanding and challenging selection of audition speeches for actresses.
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