As an actor at any level - from school exam to professional casting - you are likely to be called upon to perform one or more audition pieces - often a 'classical' piece is specified. A great deal will depend on your coming up with something fresh that is suited both to your particular performing skills and to the period of the play you are auditioning for. Which is where this volume of The Good Audition Guides comes in.
Drawing on her enormous experience as a theatre director and in drama training - she has sat on the selection board of several leading drama schools - Marina Caldarone has chosen for this volume fifty monologues for female actors selected from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western theatre. Each monologue is prefaced with a neat summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect and in your own unique way. The volume also carries a user-friendly introduction on the whole process of auditioning.
Offers audition pieces for actors at all levels. Drawing on her enormous experience in drama training, the author has selected over forty-five monologues for men and another forty-five for women drawn from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western theatre. These classical monologues are presented chronologically.
From school exams to professional castings, all actors must perform audition pieces. This volume contains over forty-five monologues drawn from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western theater. Each piece is prefaced with an information panel guiding readers toward the perfect piece for them.
Huge demand from actors for fresh audition pieces
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'Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition... so many of these extracts simply cry out to be performed... a source of inspiration for teachers and students alike... these two volumes are a must' * Teaching Drama Magazine *
Introduction Ancient Greece and Rome (Sophocles, Euripides, Plautus
etc) Elizabethan and Jacobean (Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Webster etc)
French and Spanish Golden Age (Moliere, Racine, Lope de Vega etc)
Restoration and 18th Century (Aphra Behn, Sheridan, Farquhar etc) 19th and
early 20th-centuries (Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, Shaw etc)
Marina Caldarone is a hugely experienced teacher and director. She sits on the selection board of several leading Drama Schools and is co-author of Actions: the Actors' Thesaurus.
