Actresses looking for short pieces to work on in class or to use for auditions need look no further. This volume is loaded with choices from contemporary and classic plays, novels, and stories. Shakespeare, Molière, and Chekhov are represented, along with contemporary writers such as Jane Martin, Christopher Durang, Caridad Svich, Beth Henley, and Wendy MacLeod. Many of the monologues in this book are from less well-known authors, making it the perfect choice for actresses looking for something fresh—something auditioners have never seen before.
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"If brevity is the soul of a good audition, then these titles will prove a great resource." --Choice
"If brevity is the soul of a good audition, then these titles will prove a great resource." --Choice
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Upon learning of today’s typical cattle-call audition process, Dustin Hoffman—who hasn’t had to audition in a long, long time—once declared that if he had only a minute to make an impression, he’d take off his clothes. For those of us who would rather think inside the box, here are two hundred and twenty-one monologues, all one minute or under in performance length.
For those auditions or class assignments where brevity is crucial, you need a monologue that gets to the point. You need a defined character, strong emotional content, and a resonant ending. Just as important, you need a lot of monologues from which to choose. This book offers you that, and more.
In our continuing effort to offer you new sources of monologues, we’ve drawn from plays, novels, short stories, poems, original monologues, essays, comics, novellas, radio plays, film scripts, and personal narratives.
How to Use This Book. At the back of this volume, you’ll find all 221 monologues indexed according to age, tone, and voice, to help identify those most suited to your needs:
Age is noted exactly only when specified by the author. More often, we’ve indicated an age range (20s, 20s-30s). In some instances, we’ve used a plus sign to show the character could be older than indicated, as in 40+.
Classic/Contemporary refers to when the monologue was written, not necessarily when the character is speaking. "Classic" texts are those that were written prior to the early 1920s.
Voice refers to indications of class, geography, ethnicity, nationality, sexual identity, or physicality that may help performers gain entry into an individual character, or closely "match" themselves to a monologue. The language of any text will reveal a certain level of education, class, or knowledge. Sometimes, however, a monologue arises out of specific cultural experience, demonstrated either through content or language. Those are the selections you’ll find listed in the "Voice" index.
Whenever possible, we’ve attempted to excerpt monologues with a minimum of editing. Where editing was necessary, omissions are indicated by parenthetical ellipses ( . . . ). All other ellipses were part of the original text.
We offer appropriately brief contexts to help you gain some entry into the monologues. But, of course, in order to fully understand and ultimately embody the characters, you are strongly advised to read the play, novel, poem, etc. from which the monologue was drawn. The greater context must be fully explored in order to answer the all-important questions: who, what, when, where, why.
So—go forth and be brief. Just keep your shirt on.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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An essential tool for working actors.,
This review is from: 60 Seconds to Shine Volume 2: 221 One-minute Monologues For Women (Paperback)
As I've sat in audition after audition, watching the same pieces being performed, watching actresses performing pieces that they were not suited for, I have wished I could hand them this book on their way out and say "Next time - try one of these."
Of course, that would mean they'd get a next time. If you've only got one chance, it 's worth getting the book first.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Monologues are not just for mature women,
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This review is from: 60 Seconds to Shine Volume 2: 221 One-minute Monologues For Women (Paperback)
Very good but still didn't have what I was hoping to find for an audition for Our Town. I was misled by the exsistence of a sister book "Young Women's Monologues" which led me to believe that this would not have monologues for teens or young women. I'd estimate that about a quarter of them are for under 30 and teens. Disappointing for a 50-year-old.
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Monologue Book,
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This review is from: 60 Seconds to Shine Volume 2: 221 One-minute Monologues For Women (Paperback)
This book was exactly what I was looking for and needed. They should make more books like this because it's hard finding decent monologues for women that are taken from actual plays, and this book did a pretty good job with that.
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