The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook: An Actor's Reference to Over 1,000 Scenes and Monologues from More than 300 Contemporary Plays
Ed Hooks
Language: English
Pages: 379
ISBN: 2:00305418
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
All actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. The unique format of the book is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book includes the author's own assessment of each monologue.
competitive. Here, they lounge in the sunshine and tear each other to shreds. Start, Roy: “Honey! You’re blocking my sun.” End, April: “Give him skin cancer, God, give him skin cancer, please!” Comedy: “Dunelawn,” pp. 27–32, Dolly (late 20s) and Harry (30s) Dolly arrives for a visit and discovers that after three months of treatment, her husband, Harry, is a changed man. Now he drinks, smokes, dances, sings, and sculpts. In this scene, they talk about why they’ve tried so often to kill each
wreck, she was taken directly to a blacks-only hospital and died en route in the ambulance. For sophisticated actors. SCENES/MONOLOGUES: Male/Female Scenes (3) DELICATE BALANCE, A by Edward Albee (Samuel French) SYNOPSIS: Agnes and Tobias live a highly ordered existence in the spacious suburban home they share with Agnes’s sister, Claire. But this isn’t a happy domestic scene by any means, for this is a family in strong denial. These are the kind of people who have a civilized drink before
Jamie bear up. I love to lie in the shade and watch him work.” LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL by Ketti Frings (based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Wolfe, Samuel French) Drama: Act I, Scene 2, pp. 32–37, Laura (23) and Eugene (17) Eugene talks quietly on the porch with Laura, the new boarder. Even though they both realize that he is too young for her, there is an immediate and profound attraction between them. Eugene tells Laura about his dreams in this lovely scene. What he doesn’t know is
justify actions that he well knows are, on some level, a cop-out. Start: “No, Gabe, there were no other women.” End: “…Who would you choose?” Comedy-Drama: Act II, Scene 3, pp. 64–65, Gabe (40s) Gabe tells Tom why, even if his relationship with Karen is not as hot as it was when they first dated, he would not break up their marriage. This is another revealing monologue, one of those moments of sudden insight that we all experience from time to time. This is a man getting in touch with his own
special relationship they shared. Start: “They always tell me that I’ve got a better education than they had.” End: “I know it, but I’ll never tell them!” PART THREE FEMALE MONOLOGUES ABSENT FRIENDS by Alan Ayckbourn (Samuel French) Comedy: Act II, p. 41, Diana (30s) Actually, this is a sad and touching monologue in the middle of a very funny play. Diana begins this speech by recalling a pretty red coat she owned as a child. She liked red because she wanted to join the Canadian Royal