A collection of the best stage monologues of the eighties and nineties (including new translations)

This volume brings together monologues of all types - from serious to comic and shades in between - to provide a varied, dramatic challenge for any actor: professional, student or amateur. Here is an invaluable resource for auditions, acting classes competitions and rehearsals. Playwrights include: Alan Bennett, Steven Berkoff, Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, Ariel Dorfman, Brian Friel, John Guare, Iain Heggie, Declan Hughes, Tony Kushner, Doug Lucie, Frank McGuinness,...

Challenging scenes from recent British, American and European plays are included in this practical manual, designed to assist actresses in training and preparation for auditions.

Fifty essential classical monologues by the great world dramatists

These great dramatic monologues - from all periods and styles, all varied in tone and genre - make an indispensable actor's companion for auditioning, rehearsing and performing. Contains extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Ford, Behn, Congreve, Wycherley, Sheridan, Vanburgh, Racine, Moliere, Calderon, Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Checkhov, Synge, Wilde and Shaw plus many more.

Each monologue is accompanied by editors' commentaries...