Monologue/Scene Books
 The Best Stage Scenes: 2007
Lawrence Harbison
The best two-hander scenes from the plays of 2007. Includes selections for one man and one woman, two men, and two women. softcover, 202 pp. $17.95.
 One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century
Edited by Joyce E. Henry
A follow-up to the popular edition from the 1990s, On on One includes the work of over 70 playwrights, spotlighting the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental writings since 2000. This book of monologues for actresses is edited by three theatre experts who have carefully selected the strongest bravura pieces for auditions, acting classes, and study. A special introduction explains how to best choose, practice, and perform a speech for auditions. Softcover, 271 pp. $16.95.
 Award Monologues for Women
Christine Ozanne & Patrick Tucker
This collection of 54 monologues will help all of you who are looking for up-to-date speeches for auditions, acting class, or who just want to enjoy extracts from some of the new plays that have arrived in the last 25 years. Softcover, 181 pp. $20.95. Also available: Award Monologues for Men.
 Gay Monologues and Scenes: An Anthology
Sky Gilbert
This collection of diverse scenes and monologues will allow men of all persuasions to stretch their acting muscles, or work from their strengths rather than their weaknesses. Includes work by such writers as Salvatore Antonio, Paul Dunn, Sean Reycraft and R.M. Vaughan. Softcover, 139 pp. $25.00.
 Classical Monologues for Men: The Good Audition Guides
Edited by Marina Caldarone
Marina Caldarone has chosen for this volume fifty monologues for male actors selected from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western theatre. Each monologue is prefaced with a summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect. These monologues are presented chronologically and arranged within five periods: Classical Greek and Roman, Elizabethan and Jacobean, French and Spanish Golden Age, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Softcover, 159 pp. $22.95.
 Classical Monologues for Women
Marina Caldarone (editor)
These classical monologues are presented chronologically and arranged within five periods: Classical Greek and Roman, Elizabethan and Jacobean, French and Spanish Golden Age, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth centuries. Softcover, 160 pp. $22.95.
 Tell It Like It Is
Peg Kehret
A new collection of fifty monologs by Peg Kehret, they create moments
of recognition that make both the performer and the audience smile.
Softcover, 117 pp. $22.95.
 Private Stories: Monologues for young actors ages 8 to 16
Elizabeth Bauman
Seven simple questions accompany the inspired monologues in this collection, enabling young actors to draw upon their experiences to create unique, well-rounded characters - even characters and situations beyond their range of personal experience. Softcover, 129 pp. $13.95.
 Once More Unto The Speech, Dear Friends: Monologues from Shakepeare's First Folio with Modern Text Versions for Comparison
Neil Freeman
To stay on top of his or her game, the Shakespearean actor needs
more knowledge of what makes the play tick, especially since the
early plays demand a different style from the later ones. Each genre (comedy,
history, tragedy) has different requirements. This three-volume set will help
actors discover the extra details of humanity that the original Folio texts
automatically offer. It includes 900 separate audition possibilities, 600
more monologues than in any other series and is useful for beginners as well
as more experienced actors. Softcover, 428 pp. $23.95.
 Shakespeare's Great Soliloquies
Bob Blaisdell
Encompassing some of the finest monologues ever uttered by actors on the stage,
this book is an invaluable source of audition or recital material for acting
students as well as seasoned professionals -- both male and female. Softcover,
111 pp. $8.95.
 Original Monologs That Showcase Your Talent
Dwight Watson
Here is a great collection of original monologs to capture the actor's
imagination, as well as the attention of the director, casting agent,
and audience. With a focus on the actor's process, Original Monologs
That Showcase
Your Talent provides synopses, character profiles, and character
objectives for the book's three-to-five-minute pieces and one-minute
monologs. This
is an essential resource for students, teachers, and budding professional
actors.
Softcover, 179 pp. $21.95.
 Canada On Stage: Scenes and Monologues
Iris Turcott & Keith Turnbull
The pieces in Canada On Stage are drawn from approximately 50 plays produced
in the past ten years. There is a significant flourishing of an exhilarating
diversity of aesthetics, styles, techniques, themes, voices and vocabularies.
Softcover, 231 pp. $27.00.
 Fifty More Professional Scenes and Monologs for Student Actors
Garry Michael Kluger
This newest collection of Kluger characterizations offers both professionals
and students a challenging, new variety of believable roles and dramatic
styles. The book is divided into Comedy and Drama sections. Most
scenes are easily adaptable to male or female actors. Published in
response to
popular demand, this sequel provides tested monologs and scenes workable
for actors of all ages and talent levels.
Softcover, 193 pp. $22.95.
 She Speaks: Monologues for Women
Compiled & edited by Judith Thompson
Revised Edition
Award winning Canadian playwright Judith Thompson has compiled and edited a
collection of contemporary Canadian monologues for women addessing themes of
Adolescence,
Body, Childhood Memories, Identity, Mothers and Passion. The selections are
from plays by
both male and female writers from a diverse multi-cultural experience.
$23.00.
 Actress' Audition Speeches
Second Edition
Jean Marlow
In this new edition of Actress' Audition Speeches, Jean Marlow presents
a generous selection of speeches of all types, classic and contemporary.
In addition there is helpful advice from directors, casting directors,
actors and teachers. Softcover, 130 pp. $22.95.
 The Marijuana-Logues
Arj Barker, Doug Benson & Tony Bajer
The Marijuana-Logues started as an Off-Broadway show, consisting of three
guys, Arj Barker, Doug Benson, and Tony Camin sitting on stools and
elucidating and illustrating the wisdom of weed. In this volume,
you'll find all of
their creative essays on the virtues of smoking pot.
Softcover, 143 pp. $17.00.
 The Good Body
Eve Ensler
This collection of diverse monologues is a wake-up call for us to love the
bodies we inhabit. Botox, Bulimia, Breast Implants: Eve Ensler, author of the
international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this
time to rock our view of what it means to have a "good body". Softcover,
95 pp. $15.95.
 The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition
Eve Ensler with a foreward by Gloria Steinem
The part that dare not speak its name now has the stage to herself...
The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all
its complexity and mystery. It has been performed in cities all across
America (and, at last, Toronto) and at hundreds of college campuses,
and has inspired a grass-roots movement -- V-Day -- to stop violence
against women. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve
Ensler's Obie Award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women's
deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it
will ever look at a woman's body, or think of sex, in quite the same
way again. $19.95.
 222 Comedy Monologues 2 Minutes and Under
Irene Zeigler Aston & John Capecci
This is the best collection available for the actor who is looking for
a comedic monologue. Situational humour, word play, absurdity, and
surrealism are all represented in a diverse assortment of plays --
from classical
to contemporary works -- for male and female actors.
Softcover, 313 pp. $27.95.
 The Faber Book of Monologues: Men
Jane Edwardes
With 25 speeches for characters ranging in age from 20 to 65, the
Faber Book of Monologues for Men contains a rich variety of tragic,
comic, realist,
and absurdist works by a stunning assembly of playwrights. Each selection
includes a synopsis of the play together with character commentary
as well as recommendations for accents and reference to first performance.
Softcover, 114 pp. $20.00.
 100 Great Monologs
Rebecca Young
Excellent for auditions, speech competitions, discussion starters, variety
shows, and acting practice, this winning collection of monologs,
duologs and triologs will inspire and entertain. With 100 pieces
to choose from
-- varying in length, from two to three minutes -- this book has
something for every student actor. Softcover, 213 pp. $21.95.
 New Audition Scenes and Monologs from Contemporary Playwrights
Roger Ellis
This anthology contains over forty monologs and scenes from the work of
contemporary playwrights, selected for use by young students and
actors age twelve to twenty-four years old. The material is appropriate
for all
audiences in terms of language and content. This cutting edge,
international collection is a valuable resource for actors, directors,
students, and teachers. Softcover, 177 pp. $21.95.
 Talk to Me
Eric Lane & Nina Shengold
In this one-of-a-kind collection of monologue plays, Eric Lane
and Nina Shengold have gathered a breathtaking array of human voices
and stories by master playwrights and emerging new writers. Because
each selection is a complete monologue, Talk to Me is an unprecedented
source for actors in search of material for auditions, classes, and
performances, as well as a literary gold mine for anyone who loves
drama. Softcover, 536 pp. $24.00.
 Solo Speeches for Men
(1800-1914)
Shaun McKenna
This is a selection of monologues from the lesser-known plays
of the nineteenth century. The collection includes extracts from
English and European repertoire for a range of ages. Softcover, 77
pp. $26.95.
 Solo Speeches for Women
(1800-1914)
Shaun McKenna
This is a selection of monologues from the lesser known plays
of the nineteenth century. The collection includes extracts from
both English and European repertoire for a range of ages.Softcover,
85 pp. $22.95.
 The Methuen Book of Modern Monologues for Women
Edited by Chrys Salt
Plucked from the best stage monologues of the second half of
the nineteenth century to the 1970s, this collection is an invaluable
resource for actors seeking serious
or comic monologues. Modern Monologues for Women draws from works by many
playwrights who helped to fashion modern theatre, such as Bertolt Brecht, David
Hare and Peter Shaffer. Each monologue is accompanied by Chrys Salt's commentary
which explains the monologue in the context of the play from which it was drawn
and highlights
possible considerations for performance. Softcover, 154 pp. $22.95. Also available:
The Methuen Book of Modern Monologues for Men.
 More Duologues For All Accents and Ages
Eamonn Jones & Jean Marlow
Included in this collection are duologues from a range of plays, from Elizabethan
to contemporary drama. The extracts have been carefully chosen to offer a range
of styles and include parts for a variety of accents and ages. Actors will find
plenty of useful and stimulating material in this terrific collection. Softcover,
168 pp.
$27.95.
 Real Scenes and Monologues for Urban Youth
Lynn Pannell
This collection of scenes and monologues reflects a reality rarely represented
by
conventional collection; it reflects the reality of America's inner-city streets. Real is
geared towards actors ages 8 to 18, and the scenes and monologues are spoken
in the appropriate vernacular: frank, profane, outrageous and totally believable.
Softcover, 140 pp. $23.50.
 Shakespeare For One: Men
Douglas Newell
At some point in their careers, all actors have to face the task of working up
a classical monologue -- preferably one that's accessible, compelling, and not
done to death. This volume collects virtually all of the monologues for men from
Shakespeare's 37 plays. For actors, directors, students, and teachers, this volume
is a treasure trove of the famous soliloquies plus many unfamiliar gems. Softcover,
298 pp. $33.95.
 Teen Talk: Modern Monologues for Teenage Girls
Susan Pomerance
Softcover, 58 pp. $12.95.
 Audition Speeches for Young Actors 16+
Edited by Jean Marlow
Marlow has compiled a wide variety of speeches for the sixteen to eighteen
year-old age-group. Sources include UK, US, and Canadian plays, and all
selections are from published pieces. Softcover, $23.95.
 Monologues In Dialect For Young Actors
Kimberly Mohne Hill
Includes pieces to be spoken with Russian, American South, New York,
Standard British, Cockney, and Irish dialects. Softcover, $20.95.
 My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out
Edited by Iris Jacob
A passionate and poignant collection of writings by teenage girls of
African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American, and biracial
backgrounds. They speak out on topics that are relevant not only to
themselves and their peers but to anyone who is raising, teaching, or
nurturing girls of color. Softcover, $19.95.
 Advice To A Player: A Collection of Monologues from Shakespeare with Explanatory Notes
Donald MacKechnie
While some of the 32 speeches included here are well known and favorites for audition
purposes, most are less familiar and so provide challenging opportunities for an
actor to grow. The author carefully examines each monologue as a whole and the various
sentences and phrases within it. He goes on to explain point by point everything
the actor needs to know about that moment in the play when the monologue is delivered.
Softcover, $27.99.
Monologues for Young Actors
Edited by Lorraine Cohen
Pieces from well-known classical and contemporary plays chosen for actors
in their teens and early twenties. $10.99 S (1994).
 Scenes for Young Actors
Edited by Lorraine Cohen
Includes scenes from Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare, A View from the
Bridge by Arthur Miller, West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, as well as
many adaptations of such literary works as Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice
and Alice in Wonderland, among many others. $7.99 S (1973).
Spotlight: Solo Scenes for Student Actors
by Stephanie Fairbanks
55 original monologues for teenagers, most of which are comic or lightly dramatic.
$22.95 I/S (1996).
Outstanding Stage Monologues and Scenes from the '90s
Edited by Steven H. Gale
Includes work from such authors as Tony Kushner, Harold Pinter, , Brien
Friel, Edward Albee, among others. Geared for older students. $20.95
S (2000).
Winning Monologues for Young Actors
Peg Kehret
Over 60 "real-talk" monologues for teenage boys and girls.
Softcover, $22.95.
Encore! More Winning Monologues for Young Actors
$22.95.
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