The Methuen Drama Book of Modern Monologues for Women: Teens to Thirties

by Alexandra Roach (Foreword by), Dee Cannon (Editor)

Overview

Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry.

Edited by Dee Cannon, author of the bestselling In-Depth Acting, this book showcases selected monologues from some of the finest modern plays by some of today's leading contemporary playwrights.

The monologues contain a diverse range of quirky and memorable characters that cross cultural and historical boundaries, and comes in a brand new format, with a notes page next to each speech, acting as an actor's workbook as well as a monologue resource.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350321847
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/30/2022
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.45(w) x 8.45(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dee Cannon was Senior Acting Tutor at RADA for 17 years and is now a full-time freelance acting coach in TV, film, theatre and musical theatre. She coaches actors on a daily basis on their monologues for drama school auditions, training, showcases, and theatre auditions. One of the top acting teachers in the country specialising in Stanislavski technique, she gives masterclasses all over the world. Her work as an acting coach was featured in Channel 4's award-winning series Faking It and BBC's Blue Peter.

Table of Contents

Foreword 11

Introduction 13

Women Teens 17

1 Pineapple Phillip McMahon 18

(Serio-Comic/16/Irish)

2 Velocity Daniel MacDonald 22

(Serio-Comic/15/Canadian)

3 Velocity Daniel MacDonald 26

(Serio-Comic/15/Canadian)

4 Responsible Other Melanie Spencer 28

(Comic/15/UK)

5 Responsible Other Melanie Spencer 32

(Serio-Comic/15/UK)

6 Breathing Corpses Laura Wade 36

(Comic/19/UK)

7 Chewing Gum Dreams Michaela Coel 40

(Comic/14/Black/UK)

8 Chewing Gum Dreams Michaela Coel 42

(Comic/14/Black/UK)

9 Chewing Gum Dreams Michaela Coel 44

(Comic/14/Black/UK)

10 M. Rock Lachlan Philpott 48

(Comic/17/Australian)

11 Jane Eyre - Based on the Novel Charlotte Brontë 50

(Serious/Teens/UK)

12 Future Conditional Tamsin Oglesby 52

(Serious/14/Afghan)

13 Chapel Street Luke Barnes 56

(Comic/16/UK)

14 Chapel Street Luke Barnes 60

(Serio-Comic/16/UK)

15 Chapel Street Luke Barnes 64

(Serio-Comic/16/UK)

Women 20s 69

1 Tejas Verdes Fermín Cabal 70

(Serious/20s/Chilean)

2 Lungs Duncan MacMillan 74

(Serious/20s/UK)

3 Cape Inua Ellams 78

(Serious/20s/Black/UK)

4 Blink Phil Porter 82

(Serio-Comic/20s/UK)

5 Blink Phil Porter 86

(Serious/20s/UK)

6 Pineapple Phillip McMahon 90

(Serio-Comic/26/Irish)

7 Perfect Match Gary Owen 94

(Serio-Comic/20S/UK)

8 Bitch Boxer Charlotte Josephine 98

(Serious/21/UK)

9 Bitch Boxer Charlotte Josephine 102

(Serio-Comic/21/UK)

10 Detroit 67 Dominique Morisseau 106

(Serious/Late 20S/USA)

11 Gutted Rikki Beadle-Blair 110

(Serious/28/Black/Mixed Race/UK)

12 Khandan Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti 114

(Serious/Late 20s/Early 30s/Punjabi/ Indian)

13 Behsharam Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti 118

(Serio-Comic/20s/UK/Asian)

14 Before The Party Rodney Ackland 120

(Serious/20s/Upper Class/UK)

15 Crowning Glory Somalia Seaton 124

(Comic/Late 20s/ 30s/Mixed Race/UK)

Women 30s 129

1 Tejas Verdes Fermín Cabal 130

(Serious/30s/Chilean)

2 Responsible Other Melanie Spencer 134

(Comic/30s/Black/Nigerian)

3 People, Places and Things Duncan MacMillan 138

(Serious/30s/UK)

4 There Has Possibly Been an Incident Chris Thorpe 142

(Serious/30s/UK)

5 Chalk Farm Kieran Hurley AJ Taudevin 146

(Serio-Comic/30s/UK)

6 La Merda (The Shit) Cristian Ceresoli 150

(Serio-Comic/30s/Any Nationality)

7 Mare Rider Leyla Nazli 154

(Serio-Comic/Late 30s/Turkish)

8 The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith Arthur Wing Pinero 158

(Serious/31/Upper Class/UK)

9 Detroit 67 Dominique Morisseau 160

(Comic/Mid 30s/Black/USA)

10 Taking Care of Baby Dennis Kelly 162

(Serio-Comic/Early 30s/UK)

11 Taking Care of Baby Dennis Kelly 164

(Serious/Early 30s/UK)

12 In Doggerland Tom Morton-Smith 168

(Serio-Comic/30s/UK)

13 The Dead Wait Paul Herzberg 172

(Serious/30/Black/South African)

14 Medea - By Euripides in a New Version Rachel Cusk 176

(Serious/30s/UK/Any Nationality)

15 Crowning Glory Somalia Seaton 180

(Comic/30s/UK/White)