Download or read book How to Select and Perform Monologues written by Frank Catalano and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a great choice for both professional actors preparing for an audition for an agent or casting director or performing arts students who have been assigned a monologue in an acting class. You will learn how to select a monologue that is right for you and get valuable tips for presentation at auditions and acting classes. It also contains sections on terminology you will need to know when performing in film, television, voice over and stage. Contains 20 original short monologues for presentation and practice.
Download or read book Monologue Mastery written by Prudence Holmes and published by Limelight. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MONOLOGUE MASTERY: HOW TO FIND AND PERFORM THE PERFECT MONOLOGUE FOR YOU
Download or read book How to Choose a Monologue for Any Audition written by Karen Kohlhaas and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laughing Wild written by Christopher Durang and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1996 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the first section of the play, a Woman enters and embarks on an increasingly frenetic (and funny) recital of the perils and frustrations of daily life in urban America--waiting in line, rude taxi drivers, inane talk shows and the selfi
Download or read book The Perfect Monologue written by Ginger Howard Friedman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion volume to her highly successful ÊCallbackÊ Ginger Howard Friedman a veteran casting director playwright and teacher reveals her winning formula for a monologue audition that lands you the part. She explains her essential rules for a successful audition then selects scenes from 16 plays and adapts them into monologues comic and serious for men and women of all ages.
Download or read book Pass Over written by Antoinette Nwandu and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lamppost. Night. Two friends are passing time. Stuck. Waiting for change. Inspired by Waiting for Godot and the Exodus, Antoinette Nwandu fuses poetry, humour and humanity in a rare and politically charged new play which exposes the experiences of young men in a world that refuses to see them. Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu received its UK premiere at the Kiln Theatre, London, in February 2020.
Download or read book The Monologue Audition written by Karen Kohlhaas and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All the elements of preparing a monologue audition - script analysis, staging, voice, timing, gesture, movement and self-presentation skills - are thoroughly explored here. The goal of the book, as Ms. Kohlhaas states in her Introduction, is not only to help you prepare for auditions, but to make working on monologues a regular and enjoyable part of your acting life. As you follow the author along the path she charts, you are not only learning to rehearse monologues effectively, you are learning to turn auditions into exciting ways to grow and challenge yourself as an actor."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book American Theatre Book of Monologues for Women written by Stephanie Coen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audition monologues selected from plays first published in American theatre magazine since 1985.
Download or read book Middle School Monologues written by Lindsay Price and published by Theatrefolk. This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Auditioning written by Joanna Merlin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-05-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theater veteran and acting teacher Joanna Merlin has written the definitive guide to auditioning for stage and screen, bringing to it a valuable dual perspective. She has spent her career on both sides of the auditioning process, both as an award-winning casting director who has worked with Harold Prince, Bernard Bertolucci, and James Ivory, and as an accomplished actor herself. In this highly informative and accessible book, Merlin provides everything the actor needs to achieve self-confidence and artistic honesty–from the most basic practical tips to an in-depth framework for preparing a part. Filled with advice from the most esteemed people in the business, such as James Lapine, Nora Ephron, and Stephen Sondheim, and charged with tremendous wisdom and compassion, this indispensable resource will arm the reader to face an actor's greatest challenge: getting the part.
Download or read book 100 monologues written by Eric Bogosian and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection by one of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists includes 100 monologues from his acclaimed plays and solo shows including: Drinking in America; Men Inside; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and more. Also included are additional pieces from Talk Radio and Notes from Underground.
Download or read book American Theatre Book of Monologues for Men written by Stephanie Coen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audition monologues selected from plays first published in American theatre magazine since 1985.
Download or read book The Monologue Workshop written by Jack Poggi and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable ally for actors terrified by monolgue. Poggi's acclaimed technique combines improvisation and textual analysis to help beginners and pros alike improve solo performance.
Download or read book Shakespeare Monologues for Men written by William Shakespeare and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays. Ideal for actors of all ages and experience.
Download or read book Writing 45 Minute One Act Plays Skits Monologues Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops written by Anne Hart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a guide book on how to write 45-minute one-act plays, skits, and monologues for all ages. Step-by-step strategies and sample play, monologue, and animation script offer easy-to-understand solutions for drama workshop leaders, high-school and university drama directors, teachers, students, parents, coaches, playwrights, scriptwriters, novelists, storytellers, camp counselors, actors, lifelong learning instructors, biographers, facilitators, personal historians, and senior center activity directors. Guide young people in an intergenerational experience of interviewing and writing skits, plays, and monologues based on the significant events and experiences from lives of people. Learn to write skits, plays and monologues based on historical events and personalities. What you'll get out of this book and the exercises of writing one-act plays for teenage actors and audiences of all-ages audience, are improved skills in adapting all types of social issues, current events, or life experience to 45-minute one-act plays, skits, or monologues for teenage or older adult drama workshops. How do you write plays and skits from life stories, current events, social issues, or history? Are you looking for the appropriate 45-minute, one-act play for high-school students or other teenagers, for community center drama workshops, or even for home school projects or for events and celebrations? Are you seeking one-act plays for older adults drama workshops? Use personal or biographical experiences as examples when you write your skit or play. If you want a really original play, write, revise, and adapt your own plays, skits, and monologues. Here's how to do it.
Download or read book The Auditioners written by Doug Rand and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This audition was supposed to be simple: prepare one classical monologue and one contemporary monologue. But when this challenge is taken up by a beauty queen, a stand-up comic, a slam poet, an Esperanto-speaking mime, and a parade of other crazies -- most of whom insist on doing the same Lady Macbeth piece very badly -- what's a director to do?
Download or read book Speak the Speech written by Rhona Silverbush and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the speech! contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for classwork, auditions, or performance. Included herein are over 150 monologues. Each one is placed in context with a brief introduction, is carefully punctuated in the manner that best illustrates its meaning, and is painstakingly and thoroughly annotated. Each is also accompanied by commentary that will spark the actor's imagination by exploring how the interrelationship of meter and the choice of words and sounds yields clues to character and performance. And throughout the book sidebars relate historical, topical, technical, and other useful and entertaining information relevant to the text. In addition, the authors include an overview of poetic and rhetorical elements, brief synopses of all the plays, and a comprehensive index along with other guidelines that will help readers locate the perfect monologue for their needs.
