ABSTRACT

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 |2 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|3 pages

Road

chapter 2|2 pages

Our Country’s Good

chapter 3|2 pages

Treehouses

chapter 4|2 pages

Massage

chapter 5|2 pages

Victoria

chapter 6|2 pages

Maydays

chapter 7|2 pages

Junk

chapter 8|2 pages

The Genius

chapter 9|2 pages

Sweet Panic

chapter 10|2 pages

The Sea

chapter 11|2 pages

Imagine Drowning

chapter 13|2 pages

Stragglers

chapter 14|2 pages

Rents

chapter 15|2 pages

A State Affair

chapter 16|2 pages

The Conquest of the South Pole

chapter 17|2 pages

The Children

chapter 18|2 pages

Barbarians

chapter 19|2 pages

Have I None

chapter 20|2 pages

Rat in The Skull

chapter 21|2 pages

Beached

chapter 22|2 pages

The Fire Raisers

chapter 23|2 pages

The Pitchfork Disney

chapter 24|2 pages

One for the Road

chapter 25|2 pages

The Hunt for Red Willie

chapter 26|2 pages

Spell #7

chapter 27|2 pages

An Experienced Woman Gives Advice

chapter 28|2 pages

The Accrington Pals

chapter 29|2 pages

Foley

chapter 30|2 pages

Serious Money

chapter 31|2 pages

The Age of Consent

chapter 32|2 pages

In High Germany

chapter 33|2 pages

Teendreams

chapter 34|2 pages

Pond Life

chapter 35|2 pages

Woza Albert

chapter 36|2 pages

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

chapter 37|2 pages

Bloody Poetry

chapter 38|2 pages

Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes

chapter 39|2 pages

After Haggerty

chapter 40|2 pages

Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco

chapter 41|2 pages

Insignificance

chapter 42|2 pages

The Memory of Water

chapter 43|2 pages

Cries from the Mammal House

chapter 44|2 pages

Boys’ Life

chapter 45|2 pages

The Art of Success

chapter 46|2 pages

Five Kinds of Silence

chapter 47|2 pages

Ghostdancing

chapter 48|2 pages

Dog

chapter 49|2 pages

Herons

chapter 50|2 pages

Star Quality