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The Theatre Arts audition book for women / compiled by Annika Bluhm.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acting.
- Auditions.
- English drama--20th century.
- English drama.
- American drama--20th century.
- American drama.
- Women--Drama.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 103 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and updated edition.
- Other Title:
- Audition book for women
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Summary:
- A collection of fifty audition speeches for women selected from the finest plays of the last twenty years. The selections come from mainstream contemporary classics and important emerging work. Many of the playwrights represented here have received critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Included are David Mamet's Oleanna, Willy Russell's Educating Rita, Jim Cartwright's Road, Caryl Churchill's Serious Money, Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking, Anthony Minghella's Truly, Madly, Deeply, and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, as well as work by Patrick Marber, Terry Johnson, Sue Townsend, Stephen Poliakoff, Dario Fo and Franca Rame, Nick Dear, Edward Bond, Alan Ayckbourn, and others. The speeches cover a wide range of mood and character, from comedy to tragedy, from youth to old age, offering the actor a rich choice of new material. Each piece is accompanied by a synopsis setting the extract firmly in its context. The volume is introduced by the editor with a note of advice drawn from interviews with experienced directors.
- Contents:
- After Miss Julie / Patrick Marber 4
- Donkeys' Years / Michael Frayn 6
- Treehouses / Elizabeth Kuti 8
- Joyriders / Christina Reid 10
- Cooking with Elvis / Lee Hall 12
- Fear and Misery of the Third Reich / Bertolt Brecht 14
- Two / Ron Elisha 16
- Educating Rita / Willy Russell 18
- Junk / John Retallack, adapted from the novel by Melvin Burgess 20
- Bazaar & Rummage / Sue Townsend 22
- Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? / Claire Dowie 24
- Teendreams / David Edgar, Susan Todd 26
- Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick / Terry Johnson 28
- My Mother Said I Never Should / Charlotte Keatley 30
- A State Affair / Robin Soans 32
- Summer / Edward Bond 34
- Truly, Madly, Deeply / Anthony Minghella 36
- The Art of Success / Nick Dear 38
- Oleanna / David Mamet 40
- Up to You, Porky / Victoria Wood 42
- Beached / Kevin Hood 44
- Our Country's Good / Timberlake Wertenbaker 46
- The Pitchfork Disney / Philip Ridley 48
- The Great Celestial Cow / Sue Townsend 50
- Silly Cow / Ben Elton 52
- Adult Child/Dead Child / Claire Dowie 54
- Down the Line / Paul Mercier 56
- Bazaar & Rummage / Sue Townsend 58
- An Experienced Woman Gives Advice / Iain Heggie 60
- Waking Up / Dario Fo, Franca Rame 62
- The Age of Consent / Peter Morris 64
- Joyriders / Christina Reid 66
- Spoonface Steinberg / Lee Hall 68
- Made in Bangkok / Anthony Minghella 70
- The Lament for Arthur Cleary / Dermot Bolger 72
- City Sugar / Stephen Poliakoff 74
- Can't Stand Up for Falling Down / Richard Cameron 76
- Serious Money / Caryl Churchill 78
- Pond Life / Richard Cameron 80
- Confusions / Alan Ayckbourn 82
- The Gift / Roy Williams 84
- Find Me / Olwen Wymark 86
- Shopping and Fucking / Mark Ravenhill 88
- Road / Jim Cartwright 90
- Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes / Sue Townsend 92
- Whale Music / Anthony Minghella 94
- Five Kinds of Silence / Shelagh Stephenson 96
- Touched / Stephen Lowe 98
- The Wild at Heart Club / Jenny McLeod 100
- Fen / Caryl Churchill 102.
- Notes:
- "A Theatre Arts book."
- ISBN:
- 0878301739
- OCLC:
- 50960990
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