The Ultimate Audition Book: 222 Monologues 2 Minutes and Under: 200 Monologues Two Minutes and Under (Monologue Audition Series) [Paperback ed.] 1575250667, 9781575250663

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THE ULTIMATE AUDITION

BOOK 222 Monologues

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The Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data The ultimate audition book: two hundred monologues, two minutes and under edited by Jocelyn A. Beard. p.

cm.

— (Monologue

—

1st ed.

audition series)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 1-57525-066-7 1.

Monologues.

PN2080.U48

2.

Acting

—Auditions.

1997

808.82'45— dc21

97-10471

CIP

3.

Drama.

I.

Beard, Jocelyn.

II.

Series.

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Contents

Women's Monologues 15th and 16th Century

Arden of Feversham, Anonymous Friar Bacon, Robert Greene (2)

(2)

1

3

The Resurrection, The York Pageant of the Carpenters

5

17th Century

A

Chaste Maid

in

Thomas Middleton

Cheapside,

All for Love; or the

World Well Lost John Dryden

6 (2)

Epicoene, Ben Jonson

7

10

The Innocent Mistress, Mary

11

Pix

The Lady of Pleasure, James Shirley

12

The Learned Women, Moliere

13

The

14

Plain Dealer, William

Wycherley

The Rival Queens, Nathaniel Lee

15

The Royal Mischief, Mary Delarivier Manley Sir Patient Fancy,

(2)

Aphra Behn

18

Tartuffe, Moliere

19

The Tragedy of Sophonisba, John Marston Venice Preserved;

16

or,

A

Plot Discovered,

(2)

Thomas Otway

Volpone, Ben Jonson

20 22 23

The Witch of Edmonton, William Rowley,

Thomas

Dekker, John Ford

24

(2)

18th Century The Beggar's Opera, John Gay The Careless Husband, Colley Cibber

26 (2)

The Castle Spectre, Matthew G. Lewis

27

29

Douglas, John

Home

Fatal Curiosity,

George

30 31

Lillo (2)

The Jealous Wife, George Colman

Know

Own

Your

33

Mind, Arthur Murphy

.

.

34

;

The London Merchant; or The History of

George Barnwell, George The Lying The

David Garrick

37

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

38

Valet,

Rivals,

35

Lillo (2)

Slaves in Algiers;

or,

Struggle for Freedom,

Susanna Haswell Rowson Three Weeks After

A

40

Marriage, Arthur

Murphy

The Tragedy of Jane Shore, Nicholas Rowe The

Way

43

44 45

of the World, William Congreve

The West

Indian, Richard

41

Cumberland

19th Century Altorf, Frances

Arms and The

Bear,

Bertram;

46

Wright

Shaw

the Man, George Bernard

Anton Chekhov, or,

The Castle of

Trans, by Carol St.

48 Rocamora

50

Charles Robert Maturin

The Colieen Brawn, Dion Boucicault

A

Doll's

49

Aldobrand,

51

(2)

House, Ibsen, Trans, by Johnston and Davis

53

Ernest Maltravers, Louisa Medina

54

The Family Legend, Joanna

55

Baillie

The Female Enthusiast, Sarah Pogson The Forest Princess;

or,

56

Two Centuries Ago,

Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes Ghosts, Ibsen, Trans, by Johnston and Davis

57 (2)

58

The Great Galeoto, Jose Echegaray, Trans, by

Hannah Lynch

John Gabriel Borkman,

Ibsen, Trans, by Rolf Fjelde

60 61

Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde

62

Masks and

Reade

63

George Bernard Shaw

64

Faces, Charles

Mrs. Warren's Profession,

The Philanderer, George Bernard Shaw

65

66

of Society, Ibsen, Trans, by Rolf Fjelde

Pillars

Salome, Oscar Wilde Smiles

and

Tears;

or,

Marie-Therese

67

(2)

The Widow's Stratagem,

DeCamp

69

The Ticket-Of-Leave Man, Tom Taylor Uncle Tom's Cabin, George

L.

70

(2)

Aiken

72

20th Century 1900-1949 The Bonds of Trans, by

Egon and Florist

Benavente,

73

John Garrett Underhill

Emilia, Christian

Maxim

Enemies,

The

Interest, Jacinto

74

Morgenstern

Gorky, Trans, by Alexander

Bakshy

Shop, Winifred Hawkridge

The Hairy Ape, Eugene O'Neill The Man Who Married A Man's World, Rachel Miss Lulu

Beit,

On Vengeance Servitude, Torches,

a

Dumb

Crothers

Wife, Anatole France

78

(2)

79 81

82

Height, Allan Davis

84

O'Neill

Kenneth Raisbeck

76 77

Zona Gale

Eugene

75

85

(2)

The Web, Eugene O'Neill

87

The Women, Clare Boothe

88

20th Century 1950-present Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room,

Christopher Durang

89

The Danube, Maria Irene Fornes Desire, Desire, Desire, Christopher

91

Durang

92

The End of the Day, Jon Robin Baitz

93

Gemini, Alberto Innaurato

95

Imperceptible Mutabilities, Suzan-Lori Parks

96

Keely

and Du, Jane Martin

Look Back

In

Anger, John Osborne

The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Christopher Durang

98 99 100

.

Moonlight Harold Pinter Park Your Car in Harvard

101 Yard, Israel Horovitz

1

Songs of Love, Romulus Linney The Substance of

Fire,

Jon Robin Baitz

.

.

106

.