Contemporary Monologues for Women
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Contemporary Monologues for Women

Volume 2

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Contemporary Monologues for Women

Volume 2

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

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