Contemporary Monologues for Women

Volume 2

Trilby James

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781848429727
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788503488
• Topic: Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
• Subtopic: Actuación y audiciones

Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. It's vital to come up with something fresh that's suited both to you – in order to allow you to express who you are as a performer – and to the specific purposes of the audition. In this book, you'll find forty fantastic speeches featuring female roles, all written and premiered since the year 2014, by some of the most exciting dramatic voices writing today. Playwrights include Mike Bartlett, Andrew Bovell, Chris Bush, Jez Butterworth, Vivienne Franzmann, Ella Hickson, Lucy Kirkwood, Chinonyerem Odimba, Frances Poet and Stef Smith. The plays featured were premiered at leading venues including the National, the Royal Court, Soho and Hampstead in London, prestigious theatres in Cardiff, Chichester, Edinburgh and Sheffield, and by renowned companies including Clean Break, Frantic Assembly and HighTide. Drawing on her experience as an actor, director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Trilby James introduces each speech with a user-friendly, bullet-point list of ten essential things you need to know about the character, and then five inspiring ideas to help you perform the monologue. This book also features a step-by-step guide to the process of selecting and preparing your speech, and approaching the audition itself. 'Easy-to-use… The guidance is perhaps the most thorough I have seen in a monologue book'Teaching Drama on Trilby James's first volume of Contemporary Monologues Please note that some of the speeches in this volume contain strong language and themes which some readers may find inappropriate.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Lucija from 3 Winters by Tena Štivičić
• Uta from 8 Hotels by Nicholas Wright
• Rehana from Angel by Henry Naylor
• Clem from Bodies by Vivienne Franzmann
• Marnie from Box Clever by Monsay Whitney
• Astrid from Boys Will Be Boys by Melissa Bubnic
• Floss from BU21 by Stuart Slade
• Izzy from BU21 by Stuart Slade
• Findlay from Close Quarters by Kate Bowen
• Essie from Collapsible by Margaret Perry
• Foster from The Collector by Henry Naylor
• Caitlin from The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
• Kelly from Flesh and Bone by Elliot Warren
• Ayesha from The Funeral Director by Iman Qureshi
• Janey from The Funeral Director by Iman Qureshi
• Maddy from Gut by Frances Poet
• Hanna from Hanna by Sam Potter
• Wendy from Heroine by Nessah Muthy
• Peppy from The House They Grew Up In by Deborah Bruce
• Fran from The Last Quiz Night on Earth by Alison Carr
• Lela from Lela & Co. by Cordelia Lynn
• Yaz from Lose Yourself by Katherine Chandler
• Rosa from Madame Ovary by Rosa Hesmondhalgh
• Loops from Mayfly by Joe White
• Jenny from Mosquitoes by Lucy Kirkwood
• Nora I from Nora : A Doll’s House by Stef Smith
• Imogen from One for Sorrow by Cordelia Lynn
• Bobby from The Perfect Gentleman by Jackie Clune
• Jess from The Quiet House by Gareth Farr
• Maya from Snowflake by Mike Bartlett
• Frankie from Soft Animals by Holly Robinson
• Sarah from Soft Animals by Holly Robinson
• Vanessa from Steel by Chris Bush
• Pip from Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell
• Dee from Unknown Rivers by Chinonyerem Odimba
• Connie from Voicemail by Lily Bevan
• Elizabeth from The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood
• Sally from The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood
• Anne from Wilderness by Kellie Smith
• Young Woman from The Writer by Ella Hickson
• The Good Audition Guides
• About the Author
• Copyright