Description
Book SynopsisTHE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES:
Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills
Each Good Audition Guide contains a range of fresh monologues, all prefaced with a summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.
Each volume also carries a user-friendly introduction on the whole process of auditioning.
Classical Monologues for Women contains 50 monologues drawn from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western Theatre:
* Classical Greek and Roman
* Elizabethan and Jacobean
* French and Spanish Golden Age
* Restoration and Eighteenth Century
* Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Also available: Classical Monologues for Men
Trade Review'Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition... so many of these extracts simply cry out to be performed... a source of inspiration for teachers and students alike... these two volumes are a must'
* Teaching Drama Magazine *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Ancient Greece and Rome (Sophocles, Euripides, Plautus etc) Elizabethan and Jacobean (Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Webster etc) French and Spanish Golden Age (Moliere, Racine, Lope de Vega etc) Restoration and 18th Century (Aphra Behn, Sheridan, Farquhar etc) 19th and early 20th-centuries (Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, Shaw etc)
