Classical monologues for women / edited and introduced by Marina Caldarone.

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Book
Language
English
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London : Nick Hern Books, 2006.
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160 pages ; 20 cm.

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    Good audition guides [More in this series]
    Summary note
    • "As an actor at any level - from school exam to professional casting - you are likely to be called upon to perform one or more audition pieces - often a 'classical' piece is specified. A great deal will depend on your coming up with something fresh that is suited both to your particular performing skills and to the period of the play you are auditioning for. Which is where this volume of The Good Audition Guides comes in."
    • "Drawing on her enormous experience as a theatre director and in drama training - she has sat on the selection board of several leading drama schools - Marina Caldarone has chosen for this volume fifty monologues for female actors selected from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western theatre. Each monologue is prefaced with a neat summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect and in your own unique way. The volume also carries a user-friendly introduction on the whole process of auditioning."--Jacket.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Classical Greek and Roman
    • Electra from Electra / Sophocles (c. 415 BC)
    • Polyxena from Hecuba / Euripides (c. 424 BC)
    • Creusa from Ion / Euripides (c. 413 BC)
    • Ismene from Thebans / Liz Lochhead (2003) after Sophocles and Euripides (5th century BC)
    • Palaestra from Rudens / Plautus (c. 200 BC)
    • Elizabethan and Jacobean
    • Alice Arden from Arden of Faversham / Anon (1592)
    • Margaret of Anjou from Henry III / William Shakespeare (1593)
    • Julia from The two gentlemen of Verona / William Shakespeare (1593)
    • Lady Anne from Richard III / William Shakespeare (1594)
    • Adriana from The comedy of errors / William Shakespeare (1595)
    • Lady Constance from King John / William Shakespeare (1596)
    • Tamyra from Bussy D'Ambois / George Chapman (1604)
    • Bellafront from The honest whore / Thomas Dekker (1604)
    • Beatrice from The Dutch courtesan / John Marston (1604)
    • Crispinella from The Dutch courtesan / John Marston (1604)
    • Mother from A mad world, my masters / Thomas Middleton (1605)
    • Lucretia Borgia from The devil's charter / Barnabe Barnes (1607)
    • Hermione from The winter's tale / William Shakespeare (1610).
    • Maria from The tamer tamed / John Fletcher (1619)
    • Guiomar from The custom of the country / John Fletcher (1619)
    • Hippolyta from The custom of the country / John Fletcher (1619)
    • Beatrice from The changeling / Thomas Middleton and William Rowley (1622)
    • Leonora from The devil's law-case / John Webster (1623)
    • Lady Alworth from A new way to pay old debts / Philip Massinger (1625)
    • French and Spanish Golden Age
    • Casilda from Peribanez / Lope de Vega (c. 1605-12)
    • Célimène from The misanthrope / Molière (1666)
    • Henriette from The learned ladies / Molière (1672)
    • Phedra from Phedra / Jean Racine (1677)
    • Restoration and eighteenth century
    • Margery from The country wife / William Wycherley (1675)
    • Charlotte from She ventures, and he wins / Ariadne (1695)
    • Bassima from The royal mischief / Delariviere Manley (1696)
    • Lamira from The fatal friendship / Catherine Trotter (1698)
    • Jane from The tragedy of Jane Shore / Nicholas Rowe (1714).
    • Millwood from The London merchant / George Lillo (1731)
    • Miss Stirling from The Clandestine marriage David Garrick/George Coleman (1766)
    • Lydia Languish from The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775)
    • Mrs Dangle from The critic / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1779)
    • Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
    • Mrs Tiffany from Fashion, or Life in New York / Anna Cora Mowatt (1845)
    • Mrs Alving from Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen (1881)
    • Miss Julie from Miss Julie / August Strindberg (1888)
    • Madame X from The stronger / August Strindberg (1889)
    • Jean from Alan's wife / Florence Bell and Elizabeth Robins (1893)
    • Mrs Cheveley from An ideal husband / Oscar Wilde (1895)
    • Yelena from Uncle Vanya / Anton Chekhov (1897)
    • Alice from The dancer of death, Part 2 / August Strindberg (1901)
    • Margaret from Fanny's first play / George Bernard Shaw (1911)
    • Orinthia from The apple cart / George Bernard Shaw (1929)
    • Bride from Blood wedding / Federico García Lorca (1933).
    ISBN
    • 9781854598707 ((pbk.))
    • 1854598708 ((pbk.))
    OCLC
    62479243
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