A collection of scenes for young actors to try and experience. The material is based on issues that concern young people, so they can relate to it and understand the content. Scenes are catagoriezed for beginners and advanced students, with a section of style and language scenes for those with the skill to tackle them. The book includes scenes from plays by Arthur Miller, Oscar Wilde, Tom Stoppard and Bernard Shaw among others. This is a useful tool for teachers working with young actors.
It's at times like this I'm inspired by The Stupendous Santini. He toured the mid-West during the 1930s, entertaining farmers affected by the Dust Bowl. No one would have remembered him were in not for the fact that during his most famous trick - sword swallowing - he accidentally punctured a lung and died on the spot. He became a legend. Donny has committed an act that shocked everyone. Tabloids called him The Most Hated Boy Alive. But Donny doesn't want forgiveness. All Donny wants is . . ....
Is theatre still relevant in this new century? The almost one hundred monologues in this collection prove that contemporary theatre is alive, vibrant, and vital to our culture. The human experiences depicted in the works expose our hopes and fears, our bravado and our masks, as we live life in the first quarter of this new millennium. Divided into monologues for men and women, the selected pieces in Contemporary Monologues for a New Theatre draw on the many diverse stories that weave the tapestr...
The LAMDA Teaching series provides compilati ons of music, art and drama that are suitable for teenagers and which can be used by both students and teachers. '
Contemporary Scenes for Young Men (LAMDA S.)
Two volumes of thirty-five scenes each taken from plays written since 1985. The selections include material suitable for teenagers through to performers in their twenties, although this does not always mean the characters will fall into this range. This is to allow performers the potential to explore outside their immediate age group. The selections are drawn from a range of published material .
Masterclass: Women
An extensive guide to acting, followed by close to a hundred audition pieces chosen from the whole of world drama. Masterclass is a unique handbook for actors, student actors and teachers. 'Full of such essential truth that it seems at once revelatory and confirmatory. This book will give the actor a massive injection of self-confidence - at the same time propelling them into unknown territory. An affirmation of the actor's strength - instinct. Buy it!' Hugo Weaving
The Hemingway Monologues (The Hemingway Monologues, #3)
by Brian Gordon Sinclair
When Streisand, Redford, Vereen, Tomlin, Midler, and Hoffman got their first breaks Michael Shurtleff was there. Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket and for films like The Graduate and Jesus Christ Superstar. His legendary course on auditioning has launched hundreds of successful careers. Now in this book he tells the all-important how for all aspiring actors, from the beginning student of acting to the proven talent trying out for...
Bunch of Snake Freaks! A Brit's Take on Dead Pets, Sleazeballs and Other Fun Movie Stuff (Ice Dog Movie Guide, #5)
by Dave Franklin
The Humana Festival of New American Plays has been a leading home for extraordinary playwrights and their imaginations for more than four decades, making Actors Theatre of Louisville one of the nation’s preeminent powerhouses for new play development. For six weeks every spring, Louisville exerts a gravitational pull on producers and theatre lovers from around the country, who travel from far and wide for the adventure of seeing a diverse slate of fully-produced new plays. Many Humana Festival p...
Dangerous Music: The American Century Cycle Monologues (A Tool for Actors)
by August Wilson
As one of the most celebrated playwrights and distinct voices of the American Theatre, August Wilson's plays have influenced theater artists for decades. His works span the 20th Century, each play encapsulating the changes and consistencies in language, society, and the human spirit of each decade. Actors now have the opportunity to engage directly with the monologues from Wilson's American Century Cycle. The monologues are broken down chronologically beginning with content from Gem of the Ocean...
'a one-off from the word go, and no history of English humour could overlook him.' Tom Stoppard N.F. Simpson (1919-2011) was a leading exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd, with the Royal Court classics A Resounding Tinkle (1957) and One Way Pendulum (1959) sealing his reputation as a comic master with a subtle philosophical undertow. Emerging during a revolutionary period in British theatre, Simpson rose to prominence alongside Harold Pinter, John Osborne and Arnold Wesker. His work has been...