Whether you’re applying for drama school, taking an exam, or
auditioning for a professional role, it’s likely you’ll be
required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from
a contemporary play. It’s vital to come up with something fresh
that’s suited both to you – in order to allow you to express
who you are as a performer – and to the specific purposes of the
audition. In this book, you’ll find forty fantastic speeches
featuring female roles, all written and premiered since the year
2014, by some of the most exciting dramatic voices writing today.
Playwrights include Mike Bartlett, Andrew Bovell, Chris Bush, Jez
Butterworth, Vivienne Franzmann, Ella Hickson, Lucy Kirkwood,
Chinonyerem Odimba, Frances Poet and Stef Smith. The plays featured
were premiered at leading venues including the National, the Royal
Court, Soho and Hampstead in London, prestigious theatres in
Cardiff, Chichester, Edinburgh and Sheffield, and by renowned
companies including Clean Break, Frantic Assembly and HighTide.
Drawing on her experience as an actor, director and teacher at
several leading drama schools, Trilby James introduces each speech
with a user-friendly, bullet-point list of ten essential things you
need to know about the character, and then five inspiring ideas to
help you perform the monologue. This book also features a
step-by-step guide to the process of selecting and preparing your
speech, and approaching the audition itself. ‘Easy-to-use… The
guidance is perhaps the most thorough I have seen in a monologue
book’ Teaching Drama on Trilby James’s first volume of
Contemporary Monologues Please note that some of the speeches in
this volume contain strong language and themes which some readers
may find inappropriate.
General
Imprint: |
Nick Hern Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The Good Audition Guides |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Editors: |
Trilby James
|
Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
184 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84842-972-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
General
|
LSN: |
1-84842-972-X |
Barcode: |
9781848429727 |
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