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For Women: Monologues They Haven't Heard

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This book contains 30 female speeches written by the author, each averaging 2 minutes in length and summarized by one or two sentences, such as "Frances recommends homocide as a means of retribution for blatant promiscuity." While Pomerance cleary intends to create fresh, new monologues that are free for interpretation, the result is a collection of rather flat pieces, centered around unmotivated characters with no real dramatic context. The content (sex, violence, profanity, politics, crime) makes it inappropriate for youngsters, and the form is too superficial for most adult actors. From this perspective, the title seems ironically prophetic.

I saw it by chance and since i needed a monologue for my project, i decided to buy it. It doesn't contain and extracts from plays but it's got a range of subjects to show off a range of emotions. If you're looking for something different for your audition or project, give this a try.

This book is not helpful for auditions, I ordered it thinking that they were selections from plays not written by the author, everyone knows that these type of monologue books are not useful to an actor as far as auditions, AMAZON.. can you please be more specific on these books! we need to know if they are excerpts from plays before we buy them!

As a student, I found this book to be very unhelpful. First, there are no age ranges or ethnicities given as guidelines to help you select a monologue. Secondly, since they are original peices, I wasn't able to research anything about character, relationships, etc. I found them unusable because as a student, I am unable to audition or work from unpublished scenes/plays in class. However, Pomerance's writing is interesting and poignant for those who want an original monologue:just unpractical from a student's prospective.

This has got to be the most boring collection of monologues on the market. Bar none.