Jean Marlow, who runs The Actors' Theatre School in London, has chosen a variety of speeches especially designed for auditioning for television and stage parts as well as for applications to drama schools. Also included is helpful advice from film and theatre director Sir Peter Hall, casting director Doreen Jones, and stage and film dialect coach Penny Dyer.

The love lives of two cyclists are contrasted as one fights to save his marriage while the other avoids commitment. Background music. 9 scenes, 2 men, 1 woman, 1 exterior.

A collection of the world's best monologues for women actors featuring well-known playwrights and emerging new writers.

Playbook/monologues.

A wide ranging selection of some of the best stage monologues from the last ten years. The book provides a varied and dramatic challenge for the professional, student and amateur actor, for auditions, classes or rehearsals.

This collection of fifty classical speeches, many presented as audition pieces for the first time, will be invaluable both to students applying for entrance to drama school and to actors auditioning for classical roles. The speeches are selected from plays of several periods: Elizabethan-Jacobean, Restoration, eighteenth century, and late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. There are speeches from Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, Jonson's Volpone, Marlowe's Dr Faustus, Congreve's The Way of the World, Sheridan's The Rivals and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The speeches are reproduced from plays in the respected New Mermaid series which have comprehensive introductions and detailed notes, invaluable for the well-prepared audition piece.

Audition Speeches for Women is an invaluable resource for acting classes, competitions, auditions, and rehearsals, and an affordable and necessary tool for serious actors everywhere.

Selection of speeches drawn from landmark plays stretching from classical theatre through to the nineteenth century.

Like the companion volume for men, Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Women brings together fifty speeches from plays frequently ignored such as Coriolanus, Pericles, and Love's Labours Lost. It also features good, but over-looked speeches from more popular plays such as Diana from All's Well That Ends Well, Perdita from The Winter's Tale and Hero from Much Ado About Nothing. Each speech is accompanied by a character description, brief explanation of the context, and notes on obscure words, phrases and references--all written from the viewpoint of the auditioning actor. It is the perfect resource for your best audition ever.

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.