Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry. Edited by Dee Cannon, author of the bestselling In-Depth Acting, this book showcases selected monologues from some of the finest modern plays by some of today's leading contemporary playwrights. The monologues contain a diverse range of quirky and memorable characters that cross cultural and historical boundaries, and comes in a brand new format, with a notes page next to each speech, acting as an actor's workbook as well as a monologue resource.
Fit was commissioned by Queer Up North and Stonewall and its first UK tour of schools began in September 2007. The original play was adapted into a film in 2010. Focusing on the issues surrounding homophobic bullying, Fit follows a ...
This collection features over twenty speeches by Britain’s most prominent black dramatists. The monologues represent a wide-range of themes, characters, dialects and styles.
These performance texts were written exclusively for performers identifying as Deaf, disabled or neuro-divergent.
Go on to a deeper relationship? Or do you walk away? In these eloquently interwoven and often funny monologues Patrick Cash invites you to explore these emotions of living with a virus that attacks the emotions as well as the body.
With an impressive array of speeches from a diverse range of first-class playwrights, the Faber Book of Monologues is an indispensable guide to new, untapped, and cutting-edge material.
The first collection of its kind, The Oberon Book of Queer Monologues chronicles over one hundred years of queer and trans performance.
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.
The book provides varied, nuanced stories that expand beyond the range of existing material available – from a cross-dressing Imam, to the first Black Prime Minister, the British Indian girl with dreams of becoming a country music star, ...
... the Dead Eye Boy. The reason his eye was like that is 'cause his mom got raped and what happened in childbirth. That's what looks back at me when I see myself. What will happen tothe Dead Eye Boy I don't know. But he won't be around for ...
This collection features over twenty speeches by Britain’s most prominent black dramatists. The monologues represent a wide-range of themes, characters, dialects and styles.