UNCOMMON SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGUES: An Audition Guide for Female Actors

UNCOMMON SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGUES: An Audition Guide for Female Actors

A Shakespearean speech is the perfect tool to display the actors ability in an audition, allowing the actor to demonstrate a propensity for language, storytelling, and physical characterisation. Most auditions require actors to perform a Shakespearean monologue, and even to an experienced actor, the process of selecting a monologue can be daunting and tedious. It is not uncommon for audition briefs to ask for a speech that is unique and uncommon - essentially a test of the actors understanding of the canon, and their engagement with text that inspires them, rather than text that is common. <br /><br />There is a cycle of monologues which get recycled so often that despite their beautifully written verse and wonderfully complex characters, it’s best to avoid them. There is a whole score of wonderful speeches that seem to have been forgotten, plays that are for various reasons not as popular, and characters that open up an arguably vaster array of complexities for the actor to explore. This aim of this book is to demystify these unknown gems, and open up your repertoire to speeches that have been slipping under the radar for centuries. <br /><br />This books has been curated into categories to allow ease of navigation:<br />- Dramatic<br />- Romantic<br />- Comedic<br />- Prose<br />- Other/Gender Neutral<br /><br />The speeches in this book can be used for:<br />- Drama School Auditions<br />- Auditions for Productions<br />- Work on voice, movement and character<br />- Research into the Shakespearean canon