CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...ix PREFACE...xv Chapter One PREPARING FOR AUDITIONS...1 Selected Readings...22 Chapter Two SELECTING AUDITION MATERIALS...23 Selected Readings...45 Chapter Three PLAYING CLASSICAL MONOLOGS...47 Lysistrata Lysistrata...50 Antigone Teiresias...51 Medea Medea...52 Oedipus the King Creon...53 Andromache Nurse, Hermione...54 The Self-Tormenter Clitipho...55 Agamemnon Watchman, Cassandra...56 Prometheus Bound Prometheus...58 Antigone Antigone...59 Medea Jason...60 Alcestis Servant, Hercules...61 Oedipus the King Oedipus...62 The Haunted House Phaniscus...64 Hippolytus Phaedra, Hippolytus...65 Philoctetes Neoptolemus, Philoctetes...67 Antigone Messenger...69 Lysistrata Voluptia...70 Prometheus Bound Hermes...71 Odi et Amo Catullus...72
Casina Olympio...73 Electra Electra...74 The Pot of Gold Euclio...75 Chapter Four PLAYING SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGS...77 Henry VIII Wolsey...81 Romeo and Juliet Romeo, Juliet...82 Twelfth Night Malvolio...83 Henry VI, Part I Joan...85 The Two Noble Kinsmen Jailer s Daughter...86 As You Like It Jacques...88 Henry VI, Part III Queen Margaret...89 Macbeth Porter...90 As You Like It Phebe, Rosalind...91 Cymbeline Imogen...93 Richard III Richard...94 All s Well That Ends Well Parolles...95 Antony and Cleopatra Enobarbus...96 Hamlet Hamlet...97 Timon of Athens Timon...98 King John Constance...99 Sonnets Numbers 29,116...100 Julius Caesar Brutus...102 Henry IV, Part II Mistress Quickly...103 The Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Page...104 A Midsummer Night s Dream Helena...105 Venus and Adonis Lines 1112-1188...106 The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio...107 Chapter Five PLAYING PERIOD MONOLOGS...109 The School for Scandal Sir Peter Teazle, Lady Teazle, Mrs.Candour...112 The Misanthrope Celimene...115 The Beggar s Opera Macheath, Polly...116 Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano...117
The Importance of Being Earnest Gwendolen...119 Life Is a Dream Segismundo...120 The Miser Harpagon...121 The Beaux Stratagem Mrs. Sullen...122 Volpone Volpone...123 The Ghost Sonata Old Man...124 The Octoroon Zoe...125 All for Love Cleopatra...126 The Historical Register Auctioneer...127 The Contrast Maria...128 The Cherry Orchard Trofimov...129 The Sea Gull Nina, Trigorin...130 Doctor Faustus Faustus...132 There Shall Be No Night Miranda...133 The Rivals Mrs. Malaprop...134 Miss Julie Jean, Miss Julie...135 The Duchess of Malfi Duchess...136 The Way of the World Mrs. Millamant, Mirabell...137 Survey of Period Dates...139 Chapter Six PLAYING MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGS...141 Ghosts Mrs. Alving...143 Long Day s Journey Into Night Edmund...145 The Elephant Man Treves...146 Tango Arthur...147 The Cavern Author...148 Luther Tetzel...149 The Typists Sylvia, Paul...151 Contemporary Monologs...152 I Hate Hamlet Andrew...155 Boy s Life Phil...156 Kennedy s Children Carla...157 Tassie Suffers Tassie...158 Aunt Dan and Lemon Lemon...159 Laughing Wild Man...161 Two Mrs. Iger...162
Breezeblock Park Uncle Ted...163 The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Trudy...163 Eden Creek Hattie B. Moore...165 Once a Catholic Father Mullarkey...166 The Marriage of Bette and Boo Matt...167 Good Night Desdemona Constance...168 Stepping Out Mavis...169 The Sea Mrs. Rafi...171 Tracers Dinky Dau...172 Rememberin Stuff Maxine, Tony...173 The Road to Mecca Elsa...175 Finding the Sun Fergus...176 Angels Fall Niles...177 Chapter Seven PLAYING NON-DRAMATIC MONOLOGS...179 Anonymous Epigrams Antiphilus, Poseidippus...182 Narratives...183 Princess Ida King Gama s Song...184 Go Ask Alice Alice...185 The Pirates of Penzance Major-General s Song...185 A Bachelor s Complaint Bachelor...187 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck...187 My Love Is Like to Ice Edmund Spenser...188 The Death of Ivan Ilyich Ivan Ilyich...189 Of Studies Francis Bacon...189 A Haunted Man Narrator...190 Notes from Underground Narrator...191 Historical Documents...191 Thoughts Narrator...191 Letters Oscar Wilde...192 A Prayer to Saint Catherine Anonymous...192 The Union Address Daniel Webster...193 My Mother and God Harry Golden...193 On the Enslavement of Men Abraham Lincoln...194 Civil War Letters Abraham Lincoln...195 An Address on Dunkirk Winston Churchill...195
A Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt Adlai Stevenson...196 Catiline s Defiance Catiline...197 A Love Letter John Keats...197 Perils of the Dance William Prynne...198 Please Hear What I m Not Saying Anonymous...198 Speech to the Congress Davy Crockett...199 Memories Boris Pasternak...200 Additional Dimensions...200 Romeo and Juliet Chorus...201 Henry IV, Part II Rumor...201 Henry IV, Part II Epilogue...202 Interior Monologs...203 Ophelia Ophelia...203 Polonius Polonius...205 Humorous Monologs...206 A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift...207 Ether and Me Will Rogers...208 GLOSSARY OF AUDITION TERMS...209 RESOURCE MATERIALS...215 ABOUT THE AUTHOR...219