The Ultimate Audition Book: 222 Monologues 2 Minutes and Under (Monologue Audition Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575250667 ISBN 13: 9781575250663

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Provides a collection of monologues taken from fiction, essays, and poetry.

About this title

Review:

The Ultimate Audition Book is not fancy, but it's just what the working (and aspiring) actor is looking for: a treasury of well-chosen, short monologues from many time periods and sensibilities that enable an auditioner to make a positive impression fast. What could be better? Jocelyn Beard draws on a variety of writers, including Aphra Behn, David Mamet, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, and Samuel Beckett, with enough surprises such as Suzan-Lori Parks and Jose Echegaray thrown in to make the selections flexible for today's growing multicultural arena. The monologues are organized by century, which is perhaps not the first thing an actor considers, but there is ample material in the mix of male/female, comic/dramatic, classic/contemporary, and romantic/political roles.

About the Author:

Playwright/Editor JOCELYN A. BEARD, a veteran of NYU's film school and the Yale School of Drama, has edited almost forty monologue books for Smith and Kraus. Her Screenplay, Igor and the Lunatics, was made into a feature film and subsequently listed in Heavy Metal magazine as "One of the 10 Sleaziest Movies Ever Made!" Notwithstanding, Jocelyn lives in an old haunted house in the Hudson River Valley with her husband, Kevin Kitowski, their beautiful daughter, Blythe, and lots of dogs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1575250667
• ISBN 13: 9781575250663
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Beard Jocelyn A., Capecci John, Walker Laurie, Ziegler Irene, Aston Irene Ziegler