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

Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781474229241
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474229265
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Drama
• Index: Literature

Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women aims to provide new and exciting audition and showcase material for actresses 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 actresses in their teens, twenties, thirties and forties+, and include work from over 25 top-class dramatists including Sudha Bhuchar, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Marcus Gardley, Mona Mansour and Naomi Wallace.
Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women is the go-to resource for contemporary monologues and speeches for auditions. Ideal for aspiring and professional actresses, 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 Lolita Chakrabarti
• Performing Rights
• Introduction
• Teens
• The House That Will Not Stand by Marcus Gardley – Agnés
• Melody Loses Her Mojo by Keith Saha – Melody
• Bulrusher by Eisa Davis – Bulrusher
• Ruined by Lynn Nottage – Salima
• In the Continuum by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter – Nia
• My Name is … by Sudha Bhuchar – Ghazala
• Child of the Divide by Sudha Bhuchar – Hasina
• Alaska by DC Moore – Mamta
• Fish Eyes by Anita Majumdar – Meena
• Boys With Cars by Anita Majumdar – Naz
• Blood by Emteaz Hussain – Caneze
• Twenties
• Shades by Alia Bano – Sab
• At Her Feet by Nadia Davids – Azra Al Jamal
• Josephine and I by Cush Jumbo – Josephine
• The Mountaintop by Katori Hall – Camae
• Hurt Village by Katori Hall – Crank
• We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury – Actor 6
• Black Jesus by Anders Lustgarten – Eunice
• The Westbridge by Rachel De-lahay – Soriya
• Khandan by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti – Reema
• Crash by Pamela Mala Sinha – Girl
• The Fever Chart by Naomi Wallace – Tanya
• Fireworks by Dalia Taha – Lubna
• Tamam by Betty Shamieh – Tamam
• Desert Sunrise by Misha Shulman – Layla
• Chef by Sabrina Mahfouz – Chef
• Thirties
• I Just Stopped By To See The Man by Stephen Jeffreys – Della
• Harlem Duet by Djanet Sears – Billie
• A Day at the Racists by Anders Lustgarten – Gina
• The Husbands by Sharmila Chauhan – Aya
• A Canadian Monsoon by Sheila James – Sunita
• Rice Boy by Sunil Kuruvilla – Auntie
• 9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo – Layal
• The Beloved by Amir Nizar Zuabi – Wife
• Oh My Sweet Land by Amir Nizar Zuabi
• Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons’ by Wajdi Mouawad – Nelly
• Forties +
• Category B by Roy Williams – Angela
• The Usual Auntijies by Paven Virk – Aunty 5
• The Hour of Feeling by Mona Mansour – Beder
• Archipelago by Caridad Svich – H
• Publications