Contemporary Monologues for Men

Volume 2

Trilby James, Trilby James

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781788503495
• Topic: Medien & darstellende Kunst
• Subtopic: Schauspielerei & Vorsprechen

Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. It's vital to come up with something fresh that's suited both to you – in order to allow you to express who you are as a performer – and to the specific purposes of the audition.

In this book, you'll find forty fantastic speeches featuring male roles, all written and premiered since the year 2014, by some of today's most exciting dramatic voices from the UK and USA.

Playwrights include Annie Baker, Andrew Bovell, Jez Butterworth, Caryl Churchill, Mark Gatiss, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Anna Jordan, Arinzé Kene, Rona Munro and Evan Placey. The plays featured were premiered at leading venues including the National, the Royal Court, the Bush and Hampstead in London, prestigious theatres in Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester, and by renowned companies including Frantic Assembly and Paines Plough.

Drawing on her experience as an actor, director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Trilby James introduces each speech with a user-friendly, bullet-point list of essential things you need to know about the character, and then five inspiring ideas to help you perform the monologue.

This book also features a step-by-step guide to the process of selecting and preparing your speech, and approaching the audition itself.

'Easy-to-use… The guidance is perhaps the most thorough I have seen in a monologue book' Teaching Drama on Trilby James's first volume of Contemporary Monologues

Please note that some of the speeches in this volume contain strong language and themes which some readers may find inappropriate.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Marko from 3 Winters by Tena Štivičić
• Daniel from Alligators by Andrew Keatley
• Carl from Britannia Waves the Rules by Gareth Farr
• Alex from BU21 by Stuart Slade
• Graham from BU21 by Stuart Slade
• Freddie from Consensual by Evan Placey
• Dara from Dara by Tanya Ronder, adapted from Shahid Nadeem’s play
• Oli from Dark Sublime by Michael Dennis
• Ben from Deposit by Matt Hartley
• Tom Kettle from The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
• Jamal from Flesh and Bone by Elliot Warren
• Reiss from Flesh and Bone by Elliot Warren
• Terrence from Flesh and Bone by Elliot Warren
• Avery from The Flick by Annie Baker
• Sam from The Flick by Annie Baker
• Rafe from Four Play by Jake Brunger
• Shawn from Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
• Niall from The Here and This and Now by Glenn Waldron
• Ian from Holes by Tom Basden
• Manny from I Think We Are Alone by Sally Abbott
• Haseeb from I Wanna Be Yours by Zia Ahmed
• James from James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock by Rona Munro
• Gods from Kill by Caryl Churchill
• Tom from Lawrence After Arabia by Howard Brenton
• Josh from Lose Yourself by Katherine Chandler
• Nate from Lose Yourself by Katherine Chandler
• Perce from The Man on the Platform by Mark Gatiss
• Harry from Mayfly by Joe White
• Adam from Mr Incredible by Camilla Whitehill
• Blood Cell from Misty by Arinzé Kene
• John from One for Sorrow by Cordelia Lynn
• Billy from Regeneration by Nicholas Wright, adapted from Pat Barker’s novel
• Fredrick from The Safest Spot in Town by Keith Jarrett
• Marc from Sugar Baby by Alan Harris
• Mark from Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell
• Frankie from The Unreturning by Anna Jordan
• George from The Unreturning by Anna Jordan
• Casper from What I (Don’t) Know About Autism by Jody O’Neill
• Joe from Wilderness by Kellie Smith
• John from Wink by Phoebe Eclair-Powell
• The Good Audition Guide
• About the Author
• Copyright