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 Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:37 pm
Okay, I'm auditioning for a Shakespearian Theatre Company on Friday, and I have to memorize two contrasting monologues. I've already got one (Puck's in A Midsummer Night's Dream) and now I need one more, but I CAN'T FIND ANY!!!! Please give me some ideas!
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:01 pm
Black-dono Okay, I'm auditioning for a Shakespearian Theatre Company on Friday, and I have to memorize two contrasting monologues. I've already got one (Puck's in A Midsummer Night's Dream) and now I need one more, but I CAN'T FIND ANY!!!! Please give me some ideas! Does it have to be Shakespearean as well? You can always go for the classic, passion-filled monologes like Shylock's in The Merchent of Venice (When you p***k us, do we not bleed...) or Brutus' in Julius Caeser (Lend me your ears...). If you want a nice, dark monologue, you can always get one from M*cb*th, though you might become cursed... try the one that begins "She should have died hereafter, there would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps..." It's my personal favorite. Or you can always try anything that Hamlet says. It's pretty much all depressing.
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 3:27 pm
Mister If you want a nice, dark monologue, you can always get one from M*cb*th, though you might become cursed... try the one that begins "She should have died hereafter, there would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps..." Best. Monologue. Ever. Though yeah. Shakespearian theatre companies tend to be more afraid of MacScottishplay than anyone else. As for me, I have a personal fondness for Prospero's final monologue in The Tempest. (Our revels now have ended. These, our actors, as I foretold you, are just spirits and have vanished into air...) But as Mister said, you have a lot of material to work with, melodramatic monologue wise when dealing with Shakespeare.
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Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:31 am
If you're looking for a less well-known monologue, you could try Tamora's from Titus Andronicus. Titus was one of Shakespeare's first tragedies, and is highly underacclaimed. It begins (if I remember correctly) as: "Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?" (the whole thing can be found here http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/titusandronicus/6/ )
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Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:15 pm
If you need a Classical Peice that dosen't have to be Shakespere then may I suggest Arthur Miller's The Cruicible? Even though he is a modern playwrite the time period it is set in technically qualifies it. In fact I'm using one to go to my college auditions...
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 4:15 pm
I disagree with most of these posts. Look for something age appropriate. Lady Macbeth and Tamora are played by people in their 40s. I don't think you're that age.
Try out Ophelia's monologue from Hamlet. I believe she's got one.
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