Author: Ed Hooks
Publisher: Back Stage Books
ISBN: 0823099490
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
All actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. This unique format is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book also includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.
The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, Updated and Expanded Edition
Author: Ed Hooks
Publisher: Back Stage Books
ISBN: 0823099490
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
All actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. This unique format is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book also includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.
Publisher: Back Stage Books
ISBN: 0823099490
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
All actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. This unique format is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book also includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.
Play the Scene
Author: Michael Schulman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312318796
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A collection of over a hundred scenes and monologues from plays from the Elizabethan period to contemporary Tony Award winners.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312318796
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A collection of over a hundred scenes and monologues from plays from the Elizabethan period to contemporary Tony Award winners.
The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, Updated and Expanded Edition
Author: Ed Hooks
Publisher: Back Stage Books
ISBN: 030787530X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
All actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. The unique format of the book is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.
Publisher: Back Stage Books
ISBN: 030787530X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
All actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. The unique format of the book is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.
Scenes and Monologues from Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Finalists, 2008-2012
Author: Bruce Burgun
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1480370223
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
(Applause Acting Series). Culled from the finalists for the prestigious Steinberg/American Theatre Critics New American Play Award from the years 2008-2012, Scenes and Monologues from Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Finalists, 2008-2012 presents some of the finest, sharpest, and most immediate scenes and monologues from contemporary American drama. The book is divided into male-female, male-male, female-female scenes as well as male and female monologues and multiple character scenes. Actors, teachers, students of drama, as well as theater lovers will be thrilled by entries from such recent hits as Time Stands Still , Superior Donuts , Detroit , Water by the Spoonful , and Dead Man's Cell Phone , as well as material from such lesser known-but soon to be widely celebrated plays as 9 Circles , Becky's New Car , Perfect Mendacity , Splinters , and On the Spectrum . All are superbly constructed dramas told with ferocity, passion, wit, and supreme insight. Collectively, these scripts by our most promising and creative playwrights including Sarah Ruhl, Tracy Letts, Lee Blessing, Rebecca Gilman, Donald Margulies, Naomi Iizuka, Bill Cain, Rinne Groff, Quaira Alegria Hudes, and Yussef El Guindi reflect a collective vision of today's America that is startling in its ability to reveal the pressing circumstances and realities, the diverse characters and conflicts, and the "forms and pressures" of our emerging millennial era.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1480370223
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
(Applause Acting Series). Culled from the finalists for the prestigious Steinberg/American Theatre Critics New American Play Award from the years 2008-2012, Scenes and Monologues from Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Finalists, 2008-2012 presents some of the finest, sharpest, and most immediate scenes and monologues from contemporary American drama. The book is divided into male-female, male-male, female-female scenes as well as male and female monologues and multiple character scenes. Actors, teachers, students of drama, as well as theater lovers will be thrilled by entries from such recent hits as Time Stands Still , Superior Donuts , Detroit , Water by the Spoonful , and Dead Man's Cell Phone , as well as material from such lesser known-but soon to be widely celebrated plays as 9 Circles , Becky's New Car , Perfect Mendacity , Splinters , and On the Spectrum . All are superbly constructed dramas told with ferocity, passion, wit, and supreme insight. Collectively, these scripts by our most promising and creative playwrights including Sarah Ruhl, Tracy Letts, Lee Blessing, Rebecca Gilman, Donald Margulies, Naomi Iizuka, Bill Cain, Rinne Groff, Quaira Alegria Hudes, and Yussef El Guindi reflect a collective vision of today's America that is startling in its ability to reveal the pressing circumstances and realities, the diverse characters and conflicts, and the "forms and pressures" of our emerging millennial era.
Scenes & Monologs from the Best New Plays
Author: Roger Ellis
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service
ISBN: 9780916260934
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the best professionally produced American plays.
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service
ISBN: 9780916260934
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the best professionally produced American plays.
Duo!
Author: Joyce E. Henry
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557837028
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The scenes contained in this volume are presented exactly as written by the playwrights, with no internal deletions. The introductions to each follow the headings "Characters," "Scene," and "Time"; the playwrights' stage directions are contained in parent
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557837028
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The scenes contained in this volume are presented exactly as written by the playwrights, with no internal deletions. The introductions to each follow the headings "Characters," "Scene," and "Time"; the playwrights' stage directions are contained in parent
Speak the Speech!
Author: Rhona Silverbush
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571211224
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1089
Book Description
A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the speech! contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for classwork, auditions, or performance. Included herein are over 150 monologues. Each one is placed in context with a brief introduction, is carefully punctuated in the manner that best illustrates its meaning, and is painstakingly and thoroughly annotated. Each is also accompanied by commentary that will spark the actor's imagination by exploring how the interrelationship of meter and the choice of words and sounds yields clues to character and performance. And throughout the book sidebars relate historical, topical, technical, and other useful and entertaining information relevant to the text. In addition, the authors include an overview of poetic and rhetorical elements, brief synopses of all the plays, and a comprehensive index along with other guidelines that will help readers locate the perfect monologue for their needs.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571211224
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1089
Book Description
A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the speech! contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for classwork, auditions, or performance. Included herein are over 150 monologues. Each one is placed in context with a brief introduction, is carefully punctuated in the manner that best illustrates its meaning, and is painstakingly and thoroughly annotated. Each is also accompanied by commentary that will spark the actor's imagination by exploring how the interrelationship of meter and the choice of words and sounds yields clues to character and performance. And throughout the book sidebars relate historical, topical, technical, and other useful and entertaining information relevant to the text. In addition, the authors include an overview of poetic and rhetorical elements, brief synopses of all the plays, and a comprehensive index along with other guidelines that will help readers locate the perfect monologue for their needs.
Voices of Color
Author: Woodie King
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1617745944
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1617745944
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights.
Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors
Author: Michael Schulman
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439510209
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Compiles more than eighty scenes by such modern playwrights as Williams, Slade, Miller, Zindel, and Feiffer for two men, two women, and one man and one woman
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439510209
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Compiles more than eighty scenes by such modern playwrights as Williams, Slade, Miller, Zindel, and Feiffer for two men, two women, and one man and one woman
Spare Scenes
Author: Diane Timmerman
Publisher: Drama
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book contains 60 open, circumstance-free scenes that promote growth in craft by forcing you to create context by determining character, relationship and action.
Publisher: Drama
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book contains 60 open, circumstance-free scenes that promote growth in craft by forcing you to create context by determining character, relationship and action.