Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Men

Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781474229135
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474229159
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Drama
• Index: Literature

Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Men aims to provide new and exciting audition and showcase material for actors of black, African American, South Asian and Middle Eastern heritage. Featuring the work of international contemporary playwrights who have written powerful and diverse roles for a range of actors, the collection is edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway.
Categorized by age-range, the monologues are collected in groups of characters playable by actors in their teens, twenties, thirties and forties+, and include work from over 25 top-class dramatists including Lemn Sissay, Katori Hall, Rajiv Joseph, Philip Ridley and Naomi Wallace.
Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Men is the go-to resource for contemporary monologues and speeches for auditions. Ideal for aspiring and professional actors, it allows performers to enhance their particular strengths and prepare for roles featuring characters of specific ethnic backgrounds.

Table of contents

• FC
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Quote
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword by Kwame Kwei-Armah
• Performing Rights
• Introduction
• Teens
• Sucker Punch by Roy Williams – Leon
• Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah, adapted for stage by Lemn Sissay – Alem
• Gone Too Far! by Bola Agbaje – Blazer
• Child of the Divide by Sudha Bhuchar – Buttameez
• rihannaboi95 by Jordan Tannahill – Sunny
• What Fatima Did … by Atiha Sen Gupta – Mohammed
• Desert Sunrise by Misha Shulman – Tsahi
• The North Pool by Rajiv Joseph – Khadim
• I Am Yusuf And This Is My Brother by Amir Nizar Zuabi – Ali
• The Keepers of Infinite Space by Omar El-Khairy – Shadi
• Twenties
• Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti – Ira
• Moonfleece by Philip Ridley – Zak
• Off the Endz by Bola Agbaje – David
• Southbridge by Reginald Edmund – Christopher
• The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz – VP
• True Brits by Vinay Patel – Rahul
• Snookered by Ishy Din – Shaf
• The Empire by DC Moore – Zia
• The Fever Chart by Naomi Wallace – Ali
• The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil by Marcus Youssef, Guillermo Verdecchia and Camyar Chai – Ali Ababwa
• I Call My Brothers by Jonas Hassen Khemiri – Amor
• Thirties
• The Mountaintop by Katori Hall – King
• Good Goods by Christina Anderson – Truth
• Detroit ’67 by Dominique Morisseau – Lank
• Bombay Black by Anosh Irani – Kamal
• Bells by Yasmin Whittaker Khan – Charles
• Mustafa by Naylah Ahmed – Mustafa
• A Brimful of Asha by Ravi Jain and Asha Jain – Ravi
• The Beloved by Amir Nizar Zuabi – Abraham
• Adrift by Marcus Youssef – Anis
• Fireworks by Dalia Taha – Ahmed
• Archipelago by Caridad Svich – B
• Forties +
• Ten Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith by Yussef El Guindi – Kamal
• A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes or The Gospel of Tartuffe by Marcus Gardley – Apostle Toof
• Free Fall Vinay Patel – Roland
• Publications