Monologues & Scenes

Selected by Anne Harvey, an experienced actress, director, writer and adjudicator, these scenes are suitable for performance at auditions, solo acting classes, festivals and examinations. Ranging from Renaissance to contemporary literature, the pieces...

Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre. Over 40 years, Clean Break has...

Shortlisted for the "Outstanding Drama Education Resource" with Music & Drama Education Awards (2023) Do you struggle to find appropriate scenes and monologues for young performers? Whilst there are so many plays to choose from, the selection of...

This book of contemporary monologues for women includes pieces from the best of the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, from Howard Brenton and Bryony Lavery to Charlotte Jones and Mark Ravenhill. Including extracts from plays by...

Looking for fresh, contemporary monologues? The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men collects over fifty speeches selected from the unique roster of one of Britain's leading publishers.This book is an essential resource for actors participating in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998151311Author Mike KimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Ben Rose Creative ArtsPublisher Ben Rose Creative ArtsWeight(grams) 152g

Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need of the right speech for workshop, The Faber Book of Monologues for Men offers an impressive array of...

Here, for the first time, is complete collection of actor and entertainer Stanley Holloway's incomparable comic monologues, which he performed between 1929 and 1941. All the much-loved characters such as Albert Ramsbottom ('with a stick with an 'orse's...

Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both...

This book of contemporary monologues for women includes pieces from the best of the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, from Caryl Churchill and Michael Frayn to Martin McDonagh and Sarah Kane. Including pieces by award-winning British...

EChildsplayE is a very charming and enchanting book a and an important book for children who want to act! Not only can they use this wonderful collection as a guide to the sorts of plays and parts that are available to them they will discover here how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998151328Author Mike KimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Ben Rose Creative ArtsPublisher Ben Rose Creative ArtsWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)...

Frantic Assembly have had a powerful and continuing influence on the popularisation of devising practices in contemporary theatre-making. Their work blends brave and bold physical theatre with exciting new writing, and they have collaborated with some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880399156Author Craig SlaightFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Smith & KrausPublisher Smith & Kraus Inc.,U.S.

Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for men a from contemporary plays all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 a perfect for auditions or class. There are comic monologues (laughs) and dramatic monologues (no laughs). Most have...

I cook here, create here, make here be as much of life as I can because outside of this I'm not safe, I don't know the way. Chef tells the gripping story of how one woman went from being a haute-cuisine head chef to a convicted inmate running a...

Foreword by Naomie Harris How many Black British plays can you name? Inspired by both classical and contemporary plays, The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actresses gives readers an insight into some of the best cutting-edge plays written by...

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081047Author Rebbeca YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 314g

This is a selection of speeches drawn from the great landmark plays of the twentieth century. The most famous playwrights of the British, American and European theatre, from Shaw to Sartre and Williams to Fo - and the plays most constantly performed on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076154Author Eric LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 388gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998151304Author Mike KimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Ben Rose Creative ArtsPublisher Ben Rose Creative ArtsWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692527566Author Douglas M ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Beat by Beat PressPublisher Beat by Beat PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

'I loved this book' Daily Mail Strangers come together to run. Angela and Brendan are racing towards a wedding day that is increasingly tainted by doubts. Yana runs to free herself from the darkness of the past and to remember her missing brother. ...

Never before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a living!THThis incredibly hysterical cutting-edge collection of monologues will give an actor the extra bang he needs to land the perfect comedic role...

The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women is an essential resource for actors participating in acting classes, contests, auditions, and rehearsals. This book collects over fifty speeches from some of the finest plays of the last twenty years,...

This guide covers assessing the potential auditioner's skills, analysing their voice, choosing and preparing appropriate songs, learning material in a hurry, and identifying their role within an audition.A guide to preparing for and carrying out a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948492324Author Alice SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Alphabet PublishingPublisher Alphabet PublishingWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

Foreword by Kwame Kwei-Armah How many Black British plays can you name? Inspired by both classical and contemporary plays, The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors gives readers an insight into some of the best cutting-edge plays written by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081801Author Gerald Lee RatliffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Meriwether Publishing,U.S.Publisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081528Author Laurie AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 452g

"...a lot of these things, these impulses, are healthy things, but they just get distorted. Or maybe it's the world that gets - is - distorted, but you see, it's my job to get people to fit in with the world, distorted or not, so that they feel happy...

Jazmin feels different. She doesn't want to stay in the village. She doesn't want to have a baby. She doesn't want to laugh at racist jokes in the local pub. She's got to get out. And when her Gran signs her up for a drama school...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823099498Author Ed HooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Stage Books,U.S.Publisher Watson-Guptill PublicationsWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211227Author Rhona SilverbushFormat PaperbackPage Count 1092Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573033810Author Jean CocteauFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566082082Author Gerald Lee RatliffFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692770429Author Douglas M ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Beat by Beat PressPublisher Beat by Beat PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Radioactive Monologues for Women draws together over thirty extracts from the best contemporary plays for radio and stage. Designed as a resource for actors working in radio, theatre or television, this collection of extracts is perfect for audition and...