In Performance
eBook - ePub

In Performance

Contemporary Monologues for Men and Women Late Thirties to Forties

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In Performance

Contemporary Monologues for Men and Women Late Thirties to Forties

About this book

In this thoughtfully curated collection, actors preparing for an audition or searching for quality scenes to hone their chops will find a wealth of contemporary material from American and British plays. Almost all of the works are from the year 2000 to the recent 2014 Broadway production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, chosen from the point of view of a professional acting teacher, director, and casting director.

Along with covering the basics of how to match the best monologue to the actor and how to approach the rehearsal and performance of a piece, the book provides a synopsis of the plays, character descriptions, and lists of questions specific to each monologue that will direct the actor toward shaping a complex, honest, and thoughtful performance with a strong emotional connection, a clear arc, and playable actions. There is also a brief lesson on appropriate rehearsal behavior and preparation.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction Approaching the Monologue
  4. Etiquette for Scene Study, Rehearsal, and Beyond
  5. Men’s Monologues
  6. Stanton’s Garage
  7. Great Falls
  8. Jericho
  9. The Day I Stood Still
  10. Middletown
  11. The Hologram Theory
  12. Victory Jones
  13. Death Tax
  14. While You Lie
  15. Strike-Slip
  16. The Veri**on Play
  17. The Method Gun
  18. Brooklyn Boy
  19. Dinner with Friends
  20. Dinner with Friends
  21. Bad Habits
  22. Elemeno Pea
  23. We All Knew It Was Coming
  24. Butterfly Kiss
  25. What Didn’t Happen
  26. What Didn’t Happen
  27. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  28. Greedy
  29. Ancient Gods of the Backwoods
  30. Brontosaurus
  31. Women’s Monologues
  32. Stanton’s Garage
  33. Sondra
  34. Poetic License
  35. Place Setting
  36. The Road Down the Mountain
  37. Burnt Orange
  38. Recall
  39. God Gave Us Aunts
  40. The Tutor
  41. The Tutor
  42. Death Tax
  43. While You Lie
  44. The Whale
  45. Strike-Slip
  46. Appropriate
  47. Appropriate
  48. The Veri**on Play
  49. The Method Gun
  50. Bad Habits
  51. Elemeno Pea
  52. Bob
  53. Butterfly Kiss
  54. Madame Melville
  55. Playing with Grown Ups
  56. A Numbers Game
  57. Getting Back to Mother
  58. Brontosaurus
  59. Breakfast at the Track
  60. Say de Kooning
  61. Acknowledgments
  62. Play Sources and Acknowledgments