The Modern Monologue: Men (Audition Speeches)

The Modern Monologue in two volumes, one for men and one for women, is an exciting selection of speeches drawn from the landmark plays of the 20th century. The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre-- and the plays most constantly performed on stage throughout the world--are represented in this unique collection.

Monologues of all types--both serious and comic, realistic and absurdist--provide a dynamic challenge for all actors: the student, the amateur and the professional.

A fuller appreciation of each speech is enhanced by the editors' introduction and commentaries that set the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance contexts.

Michael Earley is a Producer with the BBC Radio Drama Department and has been a literary manager for various professional theatre companies. He was Chairman of the Theatre Studies Program at Yale University and taught acting, drama and playwriting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Juilliard, Smith College and various other schools and universities in America and Britain.,
Philippa Keil is a writer, editor and translator who trained at the Yale School of Drama. She graduated from Sussex University where she acted, directed and produced plays for the Frontdoor Theatre, and then worked professionally in London at Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre.