Encore More Winning Monologs For Young Actors

Includes 63 monologues written expressly for teenagers to use for classroom exercises, speech contests, play try outs, or as discussion starters.

A collection of monologs for use in Jr. high & high school drama classes.

For speech contests, acting exercises, auditions, or audience entertainment.

A collection of sixty-five monologues providing young performers with a variety of audition pieces reflecting situations both serious and comic.

As professional directors and teachers who work with young and adult actors at the Tony Award-Winning American Conservatory Theater, Slaight and Sharrar have years of experience helping actors uncover the dynamics of the monologue, as acting exercise and as audition material. Now in their impressive third volume of age-appropriate monologues, culled from plays by substantial playwrights from an international field, the editors have assembled an impressive collection to take the actor/director/teacher to new levels of sophistication and breadth. The volume's introduction is a concise guide to today's audition obstacles and how to overcome them. As in their other award-winning collections, Slaight and Sharrar have selected character speeches from the finest dramatic literature. In addition, they have included a special section on the use of the song lyric as an exciting and useful exercise in solo work. Some of the writers included are: Edward Albee, Lee Blessing, Constance Congdon, Kia Corthron, Bob Dylan, Horton Foote, Timothy Mason, Sharman Macdonald, Lynn Nottage, Adam Rapp, George Bernard, Shaw Shakespeare, Sam Shepard, John M. Synge

Professional-level comedy monologues.

This collection of performance scripts runs the entire gamut of teenage joys, insecurities and tragic difficulties. They challenge both the performer and the audience with situations that require thinking to resolve. They are superb for classroom use, contest competitions, discussion-starters or audition scripts. The book is divided into three sections: TRIOLOGUES -- separate monologues for three performers speaking viewpoints on a single theme; DUOLOGUES -- monologues for two performers on a theme; MONOLOGUES -- one-person commentaries on a wide variety of subjects, happy and sad. All of the monologues are non-theatrical in style -- they speak as teenagers live and move.