Great Scenes and Monologues for Actors, spanning nearly 500 years of drama, from Shakespearean England to Contemporary Broadway, is a useful tool for every student or actor wanting to improve their acting skills. Included are 80 scenes and monologues from playwrights ranging from William Shakespeare to Anton Chekhov to Wendy Wasserstein. This small and affordable book can help improve memory, concentration, and confidence.
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"A compilation of some of the greatest scenes and monologues ever written—ranging from Shakespeare to Broadway productions—this book is broken down by category into scenes and monologues for one man and one woman, scenes for two women, scenes for two men, and monologues for both men and women."—Ingram
About the Author
Michael Schulman has taught acting at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and at the Actors Studio. He has also written and directed a number of plays for Off-Broadway theatre.
Eva Mekler is a former actress and playwright who has performed both on and off Broadway.
Eva Mekler is a former actress and playwright who has performed both on and off Broadway.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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The first 15 pages are devoted to creating the character and I found them very insightful. A nice, wide variety of monologues & scenes and I really liked the addition of several Shakespearean monologues at the end of each section. It's a plus that there Shakespeare monologues that are not often used. Some of the monologues/scenes in the book are from: An Ideal Husband, The Three Sisters, Master Class, I Hate Hamlet, Conversations with my Father, The Miss Firecracker Contest, Steambath, and much more...I highly recommend this book.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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A wide range of material for all capabilities,
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I found that this book was really useful because there is such a wide range of material, however, I did find that when I found a good monalogue and wanted to read the whole play it was not available anywhere on the net that I looked. This was bit annoying because it is impossible to successfully create a character from just a monalogue and is even difficult with the whole play. As I mentioned before there is a very wide range of plays, from Shakespeare to the author himself.
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I liked the Wide Selection!,
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This book has a great many scenes and monologues, and nearly anyone can find one that works for them. While some of the plays that are excerpted are a bit obscure, I found this to be only a minor setback, thanks to the magic of online book purchasing.
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This play consists of a number of intense, short scenes connected only by the fact that they take place in the dining room of a well-to-do family (the characters and families change from scene to scene). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Natalya Petrovna, New York, Hannah Mae, Ivan Andreich, New Orleans, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, Aleksandre Davidych, Huckleberry Finn, Carl Joe, James Dean, Black Sea, Jerry Graff, King Henry, Lady Anne, Von Koren, Aunt Ronelle, Barbara Schaeffer, Cluny Club, Madame de Hidalgo, Municipal Auditorium, Princess Elizabeth, Sergeant Ross, World War New!
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This play consists of a number of intense, short scenes connected only by the fact that they take place in the dining room of a well-to-do family (the characters and families change from scene to scene). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
personal stimuli, following monologue, character model Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Natalya Petrovna, New York, Hannah Mae, Ivan Andreich, New Orleans, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, Aleksandre Davidych, Huckleberry Finn, Carl Joe, James Dean, Black Sea, Jerry Graff, King Henry, Lady Anne, Von Koren, Aunt Ronelle, Barbara Schaeffer, Cluny Club, Madame de Hidalgo, Municipal Auditorium, Princess Elizabeth, Sergeant Ross, World War New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Three Sisters (TCG Translations) by Anton Chekhov on page 37, page 285, and Back Matter
- A Month in the Country (Oxford World's Classics) by Ivan Turgenev on page 8, and Back Matter
- A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan on page 229, and Back Matter
- Uncle Vanya (Oxford Paperbacks) by A.P. Chekhov on page 247, and Back Matter
- Absent Friends (Acting Edition) by Alan Ayckbourn on page 140, and Back Matter
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