Contemporary Scenes for Actors: Women
Contemporary Scenes for Actors: Women
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Summary
Challenging scenes from recent British, American and European plays are included in this practical manual, designed to assist actresses in training and preparation for auditions.
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Contemporary Scenes for Actors: Women by Michael Earley
This series of six volumes has been conceived to complement The Classical Monologue, The Modern Monologue and The Contemporary Monologue (by the same editors) Contemporary Scenes for Actors (Women) contains challenging scenes for actresses for two to four performers drawn from the best contemporary stage plays of the last decade. In actor training, auditions and competitions, scene work between two or more actors is as crucial as the single actor working on solo monologues. The selections in this book celebrate the great plays, acting styles and roles of world theatre; with introductions pinpointing the action for the actor, commentaries examining the texts for acting clues and original textual/background footnotes to provide an essential resource for performers of all ages.An essential resource for acting students and performers of all ages, for use in schools, colleges, universities and professional training programmes world-wide.
Professor Michael Earley is former Chief Producer of Plays for BBC Radio Drama in London. He was Chairman of the Theatre Studies Program at Yale University and taught acting, dramatic literature and playwriting there and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, The Juilliard School's Acting Program, Smith College and various other schools and universities in America and Britain. He is currently the principal of the Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. Philippa Keil is a writer, editor and translator who trained at the Yale School of Drama. She graduated from Sussex University where she acted, directed and produced plays for the Frontdoor Theatre, and then worked professionally in London at Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780413701107 |
| ISBN 10 | 0413701107 |
| Title | Contemporary Scenes for Actors: Women |
| Author | Michael Earley |
| Series | Audition Speeches |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1999-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |