With 127 audition pieces, this handbook has a monologue for almost any audition situation. It's important that the actor be inventive and imaginative in performing a monologue. This text shows students how to investigate dramatic and theatrical elements.

Gerald Lee Ratliff has done it again This, his latest book of monologues is a fresh collection of the new voices of the twenty-first century. This anthology of 95 monologues from contemporary writers is broken up into four sections: Hope and Longing; Spirit and Soul; Fun and Fantasy and Doubt and Despair. Also includes chapters on scene study and audition techniques. An excellent theatre sourcebook for teachers, students and professionals.

A collection of 94 monologues for women from recently produced contemporary plays for auditions, contests, workshops and acting classes.

So well-liked was the first collection of these contemporary monologues that we offer this sequel by popular demand. The monologues are wildly funny, tragically sad and yet courageous. The ultimate journey for this collection is to create the possibility of living lovingly as equals in our modern world. The monologues are organized in chapter thmes with brief sketches to set the scene. The collection features well-known playwrights -- Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson -- and many superb, emerging new writers. There are several original monologues written especially for classroom...

This sequel to the popular 'The Theatre Audition Book' features over 130 monologues from classical, Shakespeare, period, modern, and contemporary plays and a new chapter on musical theatre and the medium, including commercial and film auditions.