Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women aims to provide new and exciting audition and showcase material for actresses of black, African American, South Asian and Middle Eastern heritage. Featuring the work of international contemporary playwrights who have written powerful and diverse roles for a range of actors, the collection is edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway. Categorized by age-range, the monologues are collected in groups of characters playable by actresses in their teens, twenties, thirties and forties+, and include work from over 25 top-class dramatists including Sudha Bhuchar, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Marcus Gardley, Mona Mansour and Naomi Wallace. Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women is the go-to resource for contemporary monologues and speeches for auditions. Ideal for aspiring and professional actresses, it allows performers to enhance their particular strengths and prepare for roles featuring characters of specific ethnic backgrounds.
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Acknowledgements Foreword Editor’s Introduction Audition speeches for women: Comedy; Love; Tragedy etc. Bibliography of featured plays
Takes the stress out of trying to find suitable material for auditions as the anthologies are well researched, written and edited … A wonderful resource and tool for teachers.
A collection of audition speeches for female Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern actors, from a broad selection of plays by British and international playwrights.
The first collection of audition speeches to cater for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern actors, which features a range of plays from playwrights of a variety of nationality, ethnicity and heritage
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Methuen Drama has the most extensive series of audition speeches in the English language. Its unparalleled range guarantees that the hard-to-find speech that is just right for you is easily accessible, saving you hours of trawling through play texts. You will find audition books for young people, and a rich selection of books covering classical, Shakespearian, modern and contemporary monologues for men and for women. There are books of duologues and a range of books suited to radio as well as stage work. Each text provides an introductory commentary about the scence as well as tips on performance work. Whatever you're looking for, you're sure to find it in this series.
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ISBN
9781474229241
Publisert
2016-06-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
194 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
200

Biographical note

Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway - the former manager of the Black Play Archive at the National Theatre, London - was born in East London to West Indian parents. She trained as a theatre director at the Young Vic Theatre and the National Theatre and has worked nationally and internationally as a director, producer, audience development consultant, teacher and facilitator in theatres and schools. Simeilia has been affiliated with theatres such as National Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Arcola Theatre, Eclipse Theatre, Kali Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Baxter Theatre (South Africa). She has devised and facilitated workshops about Black British plays for a wide range of arts organisations and universities. Her film Voices from the Black Row, a short documentary celebrating Black British artists, was released in 2013.