For young actors wishing to hone their skills, this book offers a selection of age-appropriate audition material from the greatest monologue writer of all times.  The characters who speak herein are either teens or young adults, and for the most part they speak of youthful things that are timeless:  love, jokes, boasts and-on the darker side of the psyche-deceit, greed, and violence.  Aside from their youth orientation, the editors chose these 111 monologues to span a variety of character type and tone, with lengths ranging from 15 seconds to two minutes.  Twenty-nine of Shakespeare’s 37 plays are represented, offering a cross-section of the Bard’s work organized by comedies, histories, and tragedies.  The handy text presents a balance of monologues for males and females after an extensive, yet very readable 25-page introduction to Shakespearean speech and acting.

(176 pages, 5½ x 8½, paperback)

ISBN

Textbook

978-1-57525-356-5