The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors

Karen Kohlhaas

ISBN 10: 185459608X / ISBN 13: 9781854596086

Published by London: Nick Hern Books, 2000

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Paperback; Measures C Format (8½" x 5¼") (0.6 kg); pp (xxiii) 128; Preface by David Mamet; Contains: Black & white photographs; Diagrams; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #181375 ||.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors
• Publisher: London: Nick Hern Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 185459608X
• ISBN 13: 9781854596086
• Binding: Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.)
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drama

About this title

Synopsis

An intensely practical 'how-to' book for actors, helping you meet the challenges of picking, preparing and performing audition monologues for theatres, agents, casting directors and training programmes. With a foreword by David Mamet.

Focusing on how to rehearse monologues effectively using both acting and directing techniques, The Monologue Audition concentrates on developing the ability to see yourself as others see you – so that you can consistently produce the quality any auditioner is looking for.

The book includes pointers on choosing audition monologues, and uses illustrated, step-by-step guides on how to tackle any monologue an actor might choose.

Exploring all elements of preparing a monologue audition – script analysis, staging, voice, timing, gesture, movement and self-presentation skills – The Monologue Audition not only helps you prepare for auditions, but teaches how to make working on monologues a regular and enjoyable part of your acting life.

About the Authors

Karen Kohlhaas is a director, producer, and founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company. She also teaches at the Atlantic Theater Acting School for New York University undergraduates and professional actors.

David Mamet is a playwright, essayist and screenwriter who directs for both the stage and film. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Glengarry Glen Ross. His other plays include The Anarchist, Race, American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, November, The Cryptogram, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Duck Variations, Reunion, The Blue Hour, The Shawl, Bobby Gould in Hell, Edmond, Romance, The Old Neighborhood and his adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance.