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Great Scenes and Monologues for Actors
A compilation of some of the greatest scenes and monologues ever written—ranging from Shakespeare to Broadway productions—this book is broken down by category into scenes and monologues for one man and one woman, scenes for two women, scenes for two men, and monologues for both men and women.

The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues : More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights
A lifesaving resource for theater teachers and acting students, this book provides a refreshing supply of contemporary monologues for men and women from well-known and more obscure scripts. Readers will find comic, serious, and seriocomic monlogues. An index lists them by the age group of the characters. As a book for leisure, readers will find that the wide assortment of characters demonstrates a full range from the delightful to the dramatic. Informative conversations with a few playwrights, including Christopher Durang, provide greater insight into contemporary drama. High-school drama classes will appreciate this fresh material and its authoritative presentation.

Audition Monologues: Power Pieces for Women
This book has it all! Audition Tested, Industry Approved! Audition Monologues: Power Pieces for Women is a collection of dramatic and comedic monologues designed for women between the ages of 18 and 80. Expressively written in a way to enable the actor to project emotional range effectively and to experience the situation of the character, first hand. The content is powerful, includes surprising twists, and is appealing to both professional and amateur actors. Industry professionals such as casting directors, agents, acting coaches and actors have highly praised this book and actively recommend it to their colleagues and peers. Often casting decisions are made within one-minute’s time, therefore, a two to four minute monologue can be lengthy and inappropriate. Audition Monologues: Power Pieces for Women offers over 60 monologues with unlimited character choices. Also includes valuable audition tips written from an Agent’s point of view.

The Contemporary Monologue: Women
The Contemporary Monologue is an exciting selection of speeches of all types, serious and comic, realistic and absurdist, drawn from plays written by contemporary playwrights over the past ten years. Updating the popular Modern Monologues, this fresh collection of speeches represents the best American and English playwrights of today including Caryl Churchill, Ariel Dorfman, John Guare, David Mamet, Tony Kushner, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman.

The Contemporary Monologue: Men
Organized for maximum benefit to the actor gleaning for background material, individual selections are introduced with a summary of the play's action up to the point the speech begins. A brief sketch of the character is also given, utilizing, where possible, the playwright's own words. Finally, a commentary follows each monologue, alerting the actor to details in the speech that could help him/her perform it better.

Some of the highlights of The Contemporary Monologue for men include selections from Angels in America, by Tony Kushner; Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune, by Terrence McNally; States of Shock, by Sam Shepard; and Speed-the-Plow, by David Mamet.

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	Great Scenes and Monologues for Actors A compilation of some of the greatest scenes and monologues ever written—ranging from Shakespeare to Broadway productions—this book is broken down by category into scenes and monologues for one man and one woman, scenes for two women, scenes for two men, and monologues for both men and women.

	The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues : More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights A lifesaving resource for theater teachers and acting students, this book provides a refreshing supply of contemporary monologues for men and women from well-known and more obscure scripts. Readers will find comic, serious, and seriocomic monlogues. An index lists them by the age group of the characters. As a book for leisure, readers will find that the wide assortment of characters demonstrates a full range from the delightful to the dramatic. Informative conversations with a few playwrights, including Christopher Durang, provide greater insight into contemporary drama. High-school drama classes will appreciate this fresh material and its authoritative presentation.

	Audition Monologues: Power Pieces for Women This book has it all! Audition Tested, Industry Approved! Audition Monologues: Power Pieces for Women is a collection of dramatic and comedic monologues designed for women between the ages of 18 and 80. Expressively written in a way to enable the actor to project emotional range effectively and to experience the situation of the character, first hand. The content is powerful, includes surprising twists, and is appealing to both professional and amateur actors. Industry professionals such as casting directors, agents, acting coaches and actors have highly praised this book and actively recommend it to their colleagues and peers. Often casting decisions are made within one-minute’s time, therefore, a two to four minute monologue can be lengthy and inappropriate. Audition Monologues: Power Pieces for Women offers over 60 monologues with unlimited character choices. Also includes valuable audition tips written from an Agent’s point of view.

	The Contemporary Monologue: Women The Contemporary Monologue is an exciting selection of speeches of all types, serious and comic, realistic and absurdist, drawn from plays written by contemporary playwrights over the past ten years. Updating the popular Modern Monologues, this fresh collection of speeches represents the best American and English playwrights of today including Caryl Churchill, Ariel Dorfman, John Guare, David Mamet, Tony Kushner, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman.

	The Contemporary Monologue: Men Organized for maximum benefit to the actor gleaning for background material, individual selections are introduced with a summary of the play's action up to the point the speech begins. A brief sketch of the character is also given, utilizing, where possible, the playwright's own words. Finally, a commentary follows each monologue, alerting the actor to details in the speech that could help him/her perform it better. Some of the highlights of The Contemporary Monologue for men include selections from Angels in America, by Tony Kushner; Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune, by Terrence McNally; States of Shock, by Sam Shepard; and Speed-the-Plow, by David Mamet.