The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, Updated and Expanded Edition

Author: Ed Hooks
Publisher: Back Stage Books
ISBN: 0823099490
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
All actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. This unique format is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book also includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.

Play the Scene

Author: Michael Schulman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312318796
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
A collection of over a hundred scenes and monologues from plays from the Elizabethan period to contemporary Tony Award winners.

The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, Updated and Expanded Edition

Author: Ed Hooks
Publisher: Back Stage Books
ISBN: 030787530X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
All actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. The unique format of the book is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.

Scenes and Monologues from Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Finalists, 2008-2012

Author: Bruce Burgun
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1480370223
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
(Applause Acting Series). Culled from the finalists for the prestigious Steinberg/American Theatre Critics New American Play Award from the years 2008-2012, Scenes and Monologues from Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Finalists, 2008-2012 presents some of the finest, sharpest, and most immediate scenes and monologues from contemporary American drama. The book is divided into male-female, male-male, female-female scenes as well as male and female monologues and multiple character scenes. Actors, teachers, students of drama, as well as theater lovers will be thrilled by entries from such recent hits as Time Stands Still , Superior Donuts , Detroit , Water by the Spoonful , and Dead Man's Cell Phone , as well as material from such lesser known-but soon to be widely celebrated plays as 9 Circles , Becky's New Car , Perfect Mendacity , Splinters , and On the Spectrum . All are superbly constructed dramas told with ferocity, passion, wit, and supreme insight. Collectively, these scripts by our most promising and creative playwrights including Sarah Ruhl, Tracy Letts, Lee Blessing, Rebecca Gilman, Donald Margulies, Naomi Iizuka, Bill Cain, Rinne Groff, Quaira Alegria Hudes, and Yussef El Guindi reflect a collective vision of today's America that is startling in its ability to reveal the pressing circumstances and realities, the diverse characters and conflicts, and the "forms and pressures" of our emerging millennial era.

Scenes & Monologs from the Best New Plays

Author: Roger Ellis
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service
ISBN: 9780916260934
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From the best professionally produced American plays.

Duo!

Author: Joyce E. Henry
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557837028
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Book Description
The scenes contained in this volume are presented exactly as written by the playwrights, with no internal deletions. The introductions to each follow the headings "Characters," "Scene," and "Time"; the playwrights' stage directions are contained in parent

Speak the Speech!

Author: Rhona Silverbush
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571211224
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1089

Book Description
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.

Voices of Color

Author: Woodie King
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1617745944
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
A collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights.

The Actor's Scenebook

Author: Michael Schulman, Ph.D.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553263668
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Here is wonderful, up-to-date material for scene study, selected from the best plays from recent theater seasons. More than 20 monologues for both men and women, carefully chosen to display the widest range of dramatic ability, are essential for auditioning actors. A large selection of parts for woman provide exciting opportunities to sharpen acting skills in roles that brought accolades from New York's toughest critics. More than 80 scenes in all, many previously unpublished, allow every actor, professional, amateur or student, to choose from either smart, sassy, often outrageous comedy or deeply moving drama—a unique, balanced collection of the most successful contemporary plays.

In Rehearsal

Author: Gary Sloan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415678404
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
"A clear and accessible how-to-approach to the rehearsal process. Author Gary Sloan brings more than thirty years' worth of acting experience to bear on the question of how to rehearse both as an individual actor and as part of the team of professionals that underpins any successful production. Interviews with acclaimed actors, directors, playwrights, and designers share a wealth of knowledge on dynamic collaboration. The book is divided into three main stages: a flexible rehearsal program, how to work as part of a company, and the creation of a personal rehearsal process. This helps readers to refine their craft in as straightforward and accessible a manner as possible... Breaks down the rehearsal process from the actor's perspective and equips its reader with the tools to become a generous and resourceful performer both inside and outside the studio." -- Back cover.