Monologues from the Edge: Great Audition Pieces for Unconventional Actors
Starting with an understanding that all actors are by nature unconventional, Monologues from the Edge presents performers with a wide range of monologues featuring characters who stand outside social norms and ideas of acceptability. Compiled by dramaturg Steve Marsh, this collection includes many contemporary monologues from plays he had the opportunity to review during his time on the nominating committee of the Drama Desk Awards in NYC. Marsh's sincere theatrical bliss comes from understanding and working with playwrights and their dramatic structures, and his definition of the "edge"and his choice of dramatic works is sure to inspire all actors who endeavor to understand all of the characters and their motivations completely.
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Monologues from the Edge: Great Audition Pieces for Unconventional Actors
Starting with an understanding that all actors are by nature unconventional, Monologues from the Edge presents performers with a wide range of monologues featuring characters who stand outside social norms and ideas of acceptability. Compiled by dramaturg Steve Marsh, this collection includes many contemporary monologues from plays he had the opportunity to review during his time on the nominating committee of the Drama Desk Awards in NYC. Marsh's sincere theatrical bliss comes from understanding and working with playwrights and their dramatic structures, and his definition of the "edge"and his choice of dramatic works is sure to inspire all actors who endeavor to understand all of the characters and their motivations completely.
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Monologues from the Edge: Great Audition Pieces for Unconventional Actors

Monologues from the Edge: Great Audition Pieces for Unconventional Actors

Monologues from the Edge: Great Audition Pieces for Unconventional Actors

Monologues from the Edge: Great Audition Pieces for Unconventional Actors

Overview

Starting with an understanding that all actors are by nature unconventional, Monologues from the Edge presents performers with a wide range of monologues featuring characters who stand outside social norms and ideas of acceptability. Compiled by dramaturg Steve Marsh, this collection includes many contemporary monologues from plays he had the opportunity to review during his time on the nominating committee of the Drama Desk Awards in NYC. Marsh's sincere theatrical bliss comes from understanding and working with playwrights and their dramatic structures, and his definition of the "edge"and his choice of dramatic works is sure to inspire all actors who endeavor to understand all of the characters and their motivations completely.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493053186
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 11/18/2019
Series: Applause Acting Series
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Steve Marsh spent the past twenty years working on plays as an actor, director, dramaturg, and playwright in university theaters and small venues in and around New York City. He served on the Drama Desk Awards nominating committee during the 2014–2015 theater season. As a senior lecturer, he has had the opportunity to practice and profess all manners of theater arts at the State University of New York where he was graduate director of the MFA program in Dramaturgy.

Marsh worked with Alan Alda and the Center for Communicating Science to develop and facilitate communication workshops at dozens of science institutions and universities, and he helps run the Science Playwriting Competition at the Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics. In addition to an MFA in dramaturgy, he holds a BFA in acting from New York University, where he studied with famed acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Marsh has written two award-winning short plays, Hanging On! and My Penny.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Men on the Edge

Almost Blue Keith Reddin (Phil) 3

American Hero Bess Wohl (Gregory) 6

Bang! Laura Shaine Cunningham (Roy) 9

Burning Thomas Bradshaw (Peter) 12

Distant Music James McLindon (Dev Hart) 14

Distant Music James McLindon (Dev Hart) 16

Distant Music James McLindon (Dev Hart) 18

Eby and Elias Ashlin Halfnight (Elias) 19

Eby and Elias Ashlin Halfnight (Howard) 21

Eby and Elias Ashlin Halfnight (Elias) 23

Eby and Elias Ashlin Halfnight (Elias) 25

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 1) (Homer) Suzan-Lori Parks 27

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 2) (Colonel) Suzan-Lori Parks 29

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 2) (Colonel) Suzan-Lori Parks 31

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 3) (Ulysses) Suzan-Lori Parks 33

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Pan 3) (Odyssey Dog) Suzan-Lori Parks 35

Fire in the Garden Ken Weitzman (Father) 40

Five Times in One Night Chiara Atik (Djuna) 42

God Said This Leah Nanako Winkler (James) 44

God Said This Leah Nanako Winkler (James) 46

God Said This Leah Nanako Winkler (James) 48

God Said This Leah Nanako Winkler (John) 50

God Said This Leah Nanako Winkler (James) 52

God Said This Leah Nanako Winkler (James) 54

Halftime with Don Ken Weitzman (Ed) 56

Kentucky Leah Nanako Winkler (Adam) 58

Kentucky Leah Nanako Winkler (James) 60

My Penny Steve Marsh (Man) 61

My Penny Steve Marsh (Karl) 63

On the Nature and Religion of the Hibernian People Brian Parks (Tom) 65

Periphery Ed Simpson (Mike) 67

Periphery Ed Simpson (Nate) 69

Periphery Ed Simpson (Red) 71

Periphery Ed Simpson (Billy) 73

Periphery Ed Simpson (Jerry) 75

Quake '05 D. Tucker Smith (Barry) 77

Shakespeare in Mind John Jory (Titus) 79

Small Mouth Sounds Bess Wohl (Ned) 80

The As If Body Loop Ken Weitzman (Martin) 83

The Case of Humanity vs. Pontius Pilate Dorothy Fox George Fox Nancy S. Hubley Reginald Hubley Joan Tressler Jack Tressler (Pilate) 86

The Catch Ken Weitzman (Darryl Love) 88

The Catch Ken Weitzman (Darryl Love) 89

The Conflict Jeb Rosebrook (John) 91

The Lion and the Jewel Wole Soyinka (Lakunle) 93

The Opponent Brett Neveu (Donell) 95

The Opponent Brett Neveu (Donell) 97

The Theory of Everything Prince Gomolvilas (Nef) 99

The Theory of Everything Prince Gomolvilas (Hiro) 101

The Theory of Everything Prince Gomolvilas (Hiro) 103

The Trials of Brother Jero Wole Soyinka (Jero) 105

When January Feels Like Summer Cori Thomas (Devaun) 107

When January Feels Like Summer Cori Thomas (Joe) 109

When January Feels Like Summer Cori Thomas (Devaun) 111

When January Feels Like Summer Cori Thomas (Joe) 113

When January Feels Like Summer Cori Thomas (Jeron) 116

When January Feels Like Summer Cori Thomas (Indira)* 118

* The character of Indira is a transgender woman played by a male actor.

Women on the Edge

4000 Miles Amy Herzog (Vera) 123

American Hero Bess Wohl (Sheri) 125

Arrangements Ken Weitzman (Donna) 127

Arrangements Ken Weitzman (Donna) 129

August; Osage County Tracy Letts (Karen) 131

August: Osage County Tracy Letts (Violet) 133

Bang! Laura Shaine Cunningham (Bev) 135

Beautiful Bodies Laura Shaine Cunningham (Claire) 138

Beautiful Bodies Laura Shaine Cunningham (Lisbeth) 140

Burning Thomas Bradshaw (Katrin) 142

Burning Thomas Bradshaw (Josephine) 144

Eby and Elias Ashlin Halfnight (Lola) 146

Food and Fadwa: Ecklit il Hob Lameece Issaq Jacob Kader (Fadwa) 148

Food and Fadwa: Ecklit il Hob Lameece Issaq Jacob Kader (Fadwa) 150

Food and Fadwa: Ecklit il Hob Lameece Issaq Jacob Kader (Fadwa) 152

God Said This Leah Nanako Winkler (Hiro) 154

Keely and Du Jane Martin (Keely) 156

Kentucky Leah Nanako Winkler (Hiro) 158

Kentucky Leah Nanako Winkler (Hiro) 160

Kentucky Leah Nanako Winkler (Sophie) 162

Letters to a Student Revolutionary Elizabeth Wong (Karen) 164

One Flea Spare Naomi Wallace (Morse) 166

Periphery Ed Simpson (Deidre) 168

Quake '05 D. Tucker Smith (Marena) 170

Sensitive Guys MJ Kaufman (Tyler)** 174

Sensitive Guys MJ Kaufman (Amy)** 177

Sensitive Guys MJ Kaufman (Tracy)** 179

Small Mouth Sounds Bess Wohl (Joan) 180

Spike Heels Theresa Rebeck (Georgie) 182

Spin Moves Ken Weitzman (Melika) 184

Spin Moves Ken Weitzman (Trish) 186

The Mystery of Love and Sex Bathsheba Doran (Charlotte) 188

The Theory of Everything Prince Gomolvilas (Patty) 190

The Theory of Everything Prince Gomolvilas (Lana) 192

The Weak Ones Mathew Martin Tim Realbuto (Samantha) 194

The Wives Laura Shaine Cunningham (Mabe) 197

Venus in Fur David Ives (Vanda) 199

Vomit and Roses Brian Parks (Kea) 201

Web Cam Woman Laura Shaine Cunningham (Web Cam Woman) 203

Well Lisa Kron (Lisa) 208

Well Lisa Kron (Lisa) 210

Well Lisa Kron (Kay) 213

** In Sensitive Guys, all the characters are played by people who identify as women or gender nonconforming.

Well Lisa Kron (Ann) 214

Well Lisa Kron (Lisa) 216

Well Lisa Kron (Lisa) 218

When January Feels Like Summer Cori Thomas (Nirmala) 220

Play Sources and Acknowledgments 223

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