Book description
A Monologue is an Outrageous Situation! How to Survive the 60-Second Audition explains how to successfully tackle the "cattle call" acting audition with a sixty-second monologue. Through Q&As, tips, director’s notes, and a glossary full of outrageous actions meant to inspire the actor into truly connecting with the piece, this book shows actors where and how to find a monologue, edit it, and give the best audition possible.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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PART I Picking Your Monologue
- 1 An Outrageous Situation
- 2 The Sixty-Second Dilemma
- 3 What to Look for in a Monologue
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4 What to Avoid in a Monologue
- The ‘Challenge Yourself’ Monologue
- The Accent Monologue
- The Internet Monologue
- The ‘Role You Have Played Before’ Monologue
- The Phone-Call Monologue
- The ‘Feel Sorry for Yourself’ Monologue
- The ‘Whining and Complaining’ Monologue
- The ‘What a Screw-up I Am’ Monologue
- The Dirty-Word Monologue
- The ‘Too Much out of Context’ Monologue
- The Screenplay Monologue
- The One-Person-Show Monologue
- The Monologue You Wrote
- The ‘Big Pay-Off at the End’ Monologue
- The Shakespeare Monologue
- The Pre-Twentieth-Century Monologue
- The ‘Remembering the Past’ Monologue
- Summary of “Picking Your Monologue”
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PART II Working on Your Monologue
- 5 Getting Started
- 6 Cutting and Piecing Together Your Monologue
- 7 Get on Your Feet
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8 Exercises to Get Outrageous
- Actions
- For Monologues that Are Dramatic …
- For Monologues that Are Comedic …
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Exercises
- Exercise #1: Every Line Is a New Discovery
- Exercise #2: Rooting for ‘Gold’
- Exercise #3: Make Them Believe You!
- Exercise #4: ‘Vowel thru’’ Your Monologue
- Exercise #5: Shout, Then Whisper
- Exercise #6: Sing, Then Ha!
- Exercise #7: Hit the Deck!
- Exercise #8: One-Word Beat Change
- Exercise #9: Become the Monologue
- Exercise #10: Beginning, Middle, End
- 9 Monologue Pitfalls and What to Do about Them
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PART III Performing Your Monologue
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10 And Don’t Forget …
- If You Decide to Use a Chair
- Placing Your Scene Partner
- Where Has Your Character Just Been?
- Where Are You Going?
- Speaking a Soliloquy
- Up Good, Down Bad
- Unintentional Hiding
- Rushing
- Don’t Try to Be Funny
- Crying and Yelling Is Not Dramatic
- Go Somewhere and Take Us with You
- If in Doubt about Your Choices
- When to Stop Your Monologue
- 11 Audition!
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10 And Don’t Forget …
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PART IV “Just a Few Notes for You”
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12 Rehearsal Notes
- Make the Visceral Choice
- Need the Other Person
- You Don’t Have to Look at Your Scene Partner All the Time
- Negative
- ‘Kind of’ Choices Lead to ‘Kind of’ Acting
- To ‘Get Information’ Is Not Specific Enough
- To ‘Get Respect’ Is Not Strong Enough
- Do Not Fear “I Don’t Know!”
- ‘Over the Top’ and Doing ‘Too Much’
- Playing Emotion
- Explode or Lose It?
- Realism Is Not Real
- But I Can’t Do It That Way because My Line Says This!
- Your Acting Makes Dialogue Realistic
- Meet the Play on Its Terms
- Rehearsal Clothes Help You Play Period Style
- Roll Up Your Sleeves!
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13 Performance Notes
- There Is Never a Fourth Wall
- Hold for Laughter
- In the Moment
- Playing Crowd Noise
- Don’t Look Down for Too Long – Even into a Grave
- Let the Audience Do the Feeling
- Stage Whisper
- Always Finish the Un-finished Line
- The Exit Line
- Play a Comedy like a Tragedy …
- Playing Age
- Acting with an Accent
- Playing the Rich
- Playing Royalty
- Playing a Hero when You’re Supposed to be a Hero
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14 Director’s Notes
- “Pick It Up”
- Act on the Line
- Your Actual Cue in a Scene
- Listening
- Earning a Pause
- “Less Is More”
- “Just Say It”
- Consonants and Ends of Words
- How to Play the Nonsense Words
- Cheat Out
- Commenting on a Role
- A Role You Have Played Before
- ‘Doing Too Much’ Is a Good Note
- When You Don’t Get a Note, That’s Good, Too
- Don’t Get the Same Note Twice
- “Louder, Faster, Funnier”
- 15 Talent
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12 Rehearsal Notes
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Appendixes
- Index
Product information
- Title: A Monologue is an Outrageous Situation!
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2016
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317311676
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