ABSTRACT

First published in 2003. The Theatre Arts Audition Books offer one hundred speeches from plays of the past twenty-five years, fifty in a volume for men, fifty in a volume for women. Each excerpt is preceded by a note situating the play and the selection. Speeches come from a wide range of plays, including David Mamet's Oleanna, Caryl Churchill's Serious Money, Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Jim Cartwright's Road, and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, as well as plays by Anthony Minghella, Mark Ravenhill, Sue Townsend, Alan Ayckbourn, and others. Annika Bluhm has assembled two sparkling collections of monologues that will challenge and inspire the actor

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|2 pages

After Miss Julie

chapter 2|2 pages

Donkey's Years

chapter 3|2 pages

Treehouses

chapter 4|2 pages

Joyriders

chapter 5|2 pages

Cooking with Elvis

chapter 7|2 pages

Two

chapter 8|2 pages

Educating Rita

chapter 9|2 pages

Junk

chapter 10|2 pages

Bazaar & Rummage

chapter 12|2 pages

Teendreams

chapter 15|2 pages

A State Affair

chapter 16|2 pages

Summer

chapter 18|2 pages

The Art of Success

chapter 19|2 pages

Oleanna

chapter 20|2 pages

Up To You, Porky

chapter 21|2 pages

Beached

chapter 25|2 pages

Silly Cow

chapter 27|2 pages

Down the Line

chapter 28|2 pages

Bazaar & Rummage

chapter 30|2 pages

Waking Up

chapter 31|2 pages

The Age of Consent

chapter 32|2 pages

Joyriders

chapter 33|2 pages

Spoonface Steinberg

chapter 34|2 pages

Made in Bangkok

chapter 36|2 pages

City Sugar

chapter 38|2 pages

Serious Money

chapter 39|2 pages

Pond Life

chapter 40|2 pages

Confusions

chapter 41|2 pages

The Gift

chapter 42|2 pages

Find Me

chapter 44|2 pages

Road

chapter 46|2 pages

Whale Music

chapter 48|2 pages

Touched

chapter 50|2 pages

Fen