Customer Reviews

The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues

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This book is fabulous for people needing audition pieces...these monologues are not overdone, and they all come from recent plays. If you need edgy, witty, or just some awesome pieces, get this book and enjoy!

This book is a good book if you audition a lot at professional and amature theatres. It also is good if you are on a speech team and need different types of monologues. The only drawback is that it dosen't have many teen monologues.

I love the reference chart in the back. It's organized by sex, then age, then emotion portrayed. It also gives a quick description of each character, so you don't have to read through all of the monologues. Some great choices, too! Great picks from little-known dramas as well as popular ones.

Some wonderful contemporary monologues! Well-chosen and edited. Great source material for auditions or just developing acting skills. I'll be using one for an audition this week!

this book is well organized and has a plethera of wonderful monologues from actual plays. It is not just a monolgue book but a reference to find awesome plays as well!

This book is great for acting students. I've used several of the monologues from this book with great success. There are some classics as well as some more obscure monologues. I would recommend adding this book to your collection of monologues or to use in the classroom for students who are having trouble finding material.

I was already desperate and in trouble when I bought this book -- I should have known better. Monologue books are awful, generally speaking, and I should be taking the time to read plays to find my monologues. Nevertheless, I was lazy and had an audition coming up so I purchased this book used.

Man, what a let down. First off -- the book is from 1987. Nineteen hundred and eighty-seven. This book is almost 23 years old. The plays in this book are mostly from the 1970s and early 1980s. What does that mean for you, the actor? That you're going to be doing old-ass monologues that every casting person has heard at least 23948237717220001 times. That's a looooot of Christopher Durang.

There's also numerous errors in the index of the book that make finding the monologue you want very difficult. In short -- this book is an antiquated waste, and if you're doing monologues from this book, you're probably in big trouble.

Good monologues are hard to come by. Don't waste your time with this one.

The reason why I bought this book was to get a speech from it. I was in Dramatic Interpretation. Nearly all of the monologues were too short for the 8 minute time limit. I like to have my speech over 5 minutes. I did get a speech out of here, The Art of Dining by Tina Howe. But I had to combine 2 monologues. This was last year. For this season, nothing is satisfactory. I am going to buy a new book. This book is good for entertainment. I friend of mine bought the book after she heard my speech. It would be a good book for a short audition speech or a drama class. But for the purpose that I purchased it for, it failed.

Look if you want a book to kind a good charicter who is serious this is not the book. But if you are looking for a comedic monologue this is your book.