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Contemporary American Monologues for Women

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I'm just beginning acting classes and I just picked this book by simply leafing through. When I got home and actually looked through it, I became so nervous because I couldn't find anything I felt I could use. If you have the chance, look at the book before you buy it.

This book has interesting monologues to read; but as far as using it to find audition material. . .forget it. It is not clearly organized. I like monologue books that are divided into serious, comedic, etc, so I can go straight to the type of monologue I want. But this book is full of monologues with obscure chapter headings that make absolutely no sense. This is not a resourceful book. . .I would use it only for entertainment purposes, but then again, if I time for that, I'd rather read the entire play, rather than an excerpt.

The introduction explains that the obscure chapter headings were for emotion connection that certain monologues have in common, so it's a creative way to go about it. I thought that was a higher level helpfulness. It also says that it is wise to read the plays after interest in the excerpts. It's really intelligent, the organization and the thoughtfulness is generous to actors. Female perspectives are catigorized into universal quotes taken from used monologues and they express so much more that just comedic or dramaic catigories.

full of emotions. if you've ever gone through. ..anything. . .in your life there will be a monologue to accentuate those feelings for an audience. if nothing else the monologues themselves are quite interesting to read, so simply looking through it for a suitable monologue should be enjoyable.