Overview
In this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find fifty fantastic
speeches for men, all written since the year 2000, by some of our most
exciting dramatic voices. Playwrights featured in Contemporary
Monologues for Men include Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, Alexi Kaye
Campbell, Caryl Churchill, Ariel Dorfman, Ella Hickson, Lucy Kirkwood,
Bruce Norris, Jack Thorne and Enda Walsh, and the plays themselves were
premiered at the very best theatres across the UK including the National
Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, the Bush and the Young Vic, Manchester
Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep, the Traverse in Edinburgh, and many on
the stages of the Royal Court. Drawing on her experience as an actor,
director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Trilby James
prefaces each speech with a thorough introduction including the vital
information you need to place the piece in context (the who, what, when,
where and why) and suggestions about how to perform the scene to its
maximum effect (including the character's objectives and keywords).
Contemporary Monologues for Men also features an introduction on the
whole process of selecting and preparing your speech, and approaching
the audition itself. The result is the most comprehensive and useful
contemporary monologue book now available.