The Audition: Monologues with Direction

The Audition: Monologues with Direction
Author: Jon Jory
Publisher: Stage Partners
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Conquer the audition! This truly unique collection of 52 original monologues with accompanying direction is the perfect tool for the aspiring student actor or drama classroom. Master director Jon Jory has crafted these gender-neutral pieces exploring heartache, hilarity, and everything in between. Student actors and theater teachers rejoice! Bonus material includes 10 Shakespeare monologue selections with advice and tips for tackling the Bard. Drama & Comedy Monologues. 1-2 minutes 52 original, gender-neutral pieces, 10 Shakespeare selections

Mastering Monologues and Acting Sides

Mastering Monologues and Acting Sides
Author: Janet Wilcox
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1581158661

Provides advice for mastering monologues and improving auditioning techniques, and includes acting exercises, sample scripts, lists of Internet resources, improvisation tips, and more.

The Audition

The Audition
Author: Don Zolidis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN:

A new theater teacher is bringing a production of A Chorus Line to the high school. Though the hopefuls range from shy to outrageous, and from diva-like to determined, everyone has a chance to step into the spotlight. A hilarious and heartbreaking look at the madness of auditioning and the actors who brave the process for that perfect part.

Audition Speeches for 6-16 Year Olds

Audition Speeches for 6-16 Year Olds
Author: Jean Marlow
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2009-10-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 140814106X

Intended for students and children taking part in speech and drama competitions and exams, this book contains a range of audition speeches. It includes female, male and unisex speeches selected from both plays and children's books. Where relevant the author has indicated how a speech could be shortened for younger children. There is also an introductory section with contributions from Alan Ayckbourn, Carol Schroder (teacher and examiner for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), Richard Carpenter (TV writer) and Ed Wilson (Director of the National Youth Theatre) and senior casting directors for the RSC, TV and film. This edition has been freshly revised to include 10 new speeches from well known recent productions as well as children's books including Harry Potter. 'A superb compilation' Amateur Stage

The Monologue Audition

The Monologue Audition
Author: Karen Kohlhaas
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2000
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780879102913

"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.

The Methuen Book of Contemporary Monologues for Women

The Methuen Book of Contemporary Monologues for Women
Author: Chrys Salt
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2003
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

A wide ranging selection of some of the best stage monologues from the last ten years. The book provides a varied and dramatic challenge for the professional, student and amateur actor, for auditions, classes or rehearsals.

The Methuen Book of Contemporary Monologues for Men

The Methuen Book of Contemporary Monologues for Men
Author: Chrys Salt
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-11-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780413772923

This book of contemporary monologues for women includes pieces from the best of the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, from Howard Brenton and Bryony Lavery to Charlotte Jones and Mark Ravenhill. Including extracts from plays by award-winning British playwrights, there are pieces both serious and comic providing the actor with all the challenges of performing contemporary plays. The book is an invaluable resource for auditions, acting class, competitions and rehearsals. A fuller appreciation of each monologue is provided by Chrys Salt's invaluable commentaries, giving clues as to possible direction and setting each piece in the context of the play as a whole.Praise for Chrys Salt's Make Acting Work: "A really useful book for every actor to own" Prunella Scales; "This book should be part of every resourceful actor's armoury" Annette Badland

The Stage Directions Guide to Auditions

The Stage Directions Guide to Auditions
Author: Stephen Peithman
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1999
Genre: Acting
ISBN:

This first volume in the new series is different from other audition books in that it addresses the needs of both actors who are auditioning and directors who are conducting the auditions. The STAGE DIRECTIONS Guide to Auditions covers such topics as steps to a successful audition, preparing for auditions, audition procedures, auditions and attitude, audition warning signs, tips for holding auditions, clues for callbacks, making monologues memorable, tips for sight readings, publicizing auditions, and much more!

Lend Me a Tenor

Lend Me a Tenor
Author: Ken Ludwig
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1989
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573691218

Set in 1930, a world-renowned Italian tenor arrives to perform Othello but is too indisposed to go on.