Monologue/Scene Books

The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men
Catharine Weate
Compiled here are over fifty speeches from some of the finest plays of the last twenty years, from the unique roster of the UK's leading independent drama publisher. The book is helpfully arranged according to age suitability -- Teens, Twenties, Thirties, Forties plus -- and sets the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance context. Softcover, 162 pp. $20.95. Also available: The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women.

Audition Speeches for 6 to 16 Year Olds
Jean Marlow
A rich selection of speeches for students and children taking part in drama competitions, exams and auditions selected for a vast a array of well-known plays and novels. Full of advice and helpful hints, this book is an indispensible resource for young actors and enthusiasts. Softcover, 132 pp. $18.95.

Art of the Monologue: Monologues They Haven't Heard Yet
Frank Catalano
A varied collection of audition material paired with intructive and insightful advice for actors. Softcover, 269 pp. $34.99.

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. $19s.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.

One on One: The Best Men's Monologues for the 21st Century
Edited by Joyce E. Henry, Rebecca Dunn Jaroff & Bob Shuman
This follow up to the popular edition from the 1990's includes the work of over eighty playwrights, spotlighting the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental writings since 2000. Tackling issues of race, class, and gender, and expressing reactions to 9/11 and the Iraq war, this new compendium depicts young, middle aged, and older characters caught in the truths of our time. Softcover, 304 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. $20.95.

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. $10.95.

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. $27.95.

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.

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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. $25.95.

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. $15.95.

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. $21.00.

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. $23.00.

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. $15.95.

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. $29.95.

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, $22.95.

 
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, $17.95.

 


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, $17.95.

 
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, $24.99.

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. $8.99 S (1973).

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Last modified February 12, 2009
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