Overview
In this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find fifty fantastic
speeches for women, all written since the year 2000, by some of our most
exciting dramatic voices. Playwrights featured in Contemporary
Monologues for Women include Mike Bartlett, Alexi Kaye Campbell, Caryl
Churchill, Helen Edmundson, debbie tucker green, Ella Hickson, Lucy
Kirkwood, Rona Munro, Joanna Murray-Smith and Enda Walsh, and the plays
themselves were premiered at the very best theatres across the UK
including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Bush,
Soho and Hampstead Theatres, Manchester Royal Exchange, the Traverse in
Edinburgh, the Abbey in Dublin, 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 Women 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.