Customer Reviews

Contemporary American Monologues for Men

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I bought this book while looking over several different monologue books for audition materials. I used a monologue to audition for my college's B.F.A. in Musical Theatre degree, and made the program. The book is well organized in a way that is helpful to find monologues by subject material instead of providing a long list of playwrights and character names, which really is not helpful at all unless you are already familiar with the monologues. This book is truly terrific, especially if you are trying to find monologues for things such as Sense Memory work, since you can easily find a monologue by subject matter.

I love the discription of the context and the characters that is on every monologue. It is poorly orginized, but there are some great pieces and shows in this book. Check it out.

This is a wonderful collection of Monologues. The plays are from the best contemporary playwrights and plays from probably late 70s to early 90s.
What is really great about the collection is that the monolouges stay away from "Story" and are typically an actor talking to an "imaginary scene partner" or in other ways very easy to play an intention, objective (what ever nomenclature you choose).

This book is full of great monologues for writers to study, but they are the storytelling types of monologues that are not good for actor auditions because they do not permit displays of intention or reaction.

its pretty good, there are some fresh monologues in there. but is also some wired, out there, very short, or too long monologues. but its still a good book.

I don't like the index in the front of the book. The headings of the units that the book is organized into are kind of cryptic. It's hard to find what you are looking for. Some of the monologue selections would be poor choices for contest or auditions. They wouldn't appeal to every kind of judge or director. There still are some great pieces though, so I had to give it 2 stars.