Classical Monologues for Women

Marina Caldarone

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Nick Hern Books
03 September 2006

Theatre Studies; Acting techniques

Series: The Good Audition Guides

THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES:

Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills

Each Good Audition Guide contains a range of fresh monologues, all prefaced with a summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.

Each volume also carries a user-friendly introduction on the whole process of auditioning.

Classical Monologues for Women contains 50 monologues drawn from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western Theatre:
* Classical Greek and Roman
* Elizabethan and Jacobean
* French and Spanish Golden Age
* Restoration and Eighteenth Century
* Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Also available: Classical Monologues for Men

'Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition... so many of these extracts simply cry out to be performed... a source of inspiration for teachers and students alike... these two volumes are a must'

— Teaching Drama Magazine

By: Marina Caldarone
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 192mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 174g
ISBN: 9781854598707
ISBN 10: 1854598708
Series: The Good Audition Guides
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 03 September 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Ancient Greece and Rome (Sophocles, Euripides, Plautus etc) Elizabethan and Jacobean (Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Webster etc) French and Spanish Golden Age (Moliere, Racine, Lope de Vega etc) Restoration and 18th Century (Aphra Behn, Sheridan, Farquhar etc) 19th and early 20th-centuries (Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, Shaw etc)

Marina Calderone is a freelance theatre director who has also been actively involved in actor training in Britain's leading Drama Schools. She is the co-author of Actions - The Actors' Thesaurus, one of NHB's most frequently reprinted theatre books.

Reviews for Classical Monologues for Women

'Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition... so many of these extracts simply cry out to be performed... a source of inspiration for teachers and students alike... these two volumes are a must' * Teaching Drama Magazine *