An invaluable selection of pieces resource for actors working in radio, theatre or television.

An invaluable selection of pieces resource for actors working in radio, theatre or television.

Actors need to learn not only how to use their voice, but to use voice and language together. This book is about the expressive potential of language, and how actors can develop the verbal skills to release that potential. Written by tutors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and authors of the successful companion title, The Vocal Arts Workbook and DVD, this book includes each aspect of verbal expression: Sound: How to develop a sensitivity to the qualities of speech sounds and use them more expressively. Image: How to bring life and specificity to images when you speak. Sense: How to focus your energy on those words and phrases that convey what is most significant in a speech or scene. Rhythm: How rhythm is created and used in both verse and prose. Argument: How to understand the structure or logic of language and speak with authentic energy. This book puts it all together using one classical and one modern scene as examples. Each of the chapters consists of several sections addressing the learner throughout—framework, exploration, exercises, follow-up, suggested texts, and further reading—and also provides teaching tips that give specific notes for teachers.

"Radioactive Duologues brings together over thirty extracts from the best contemporary plays for radio, stage and television to provide a dynamic collection, perfect for audition, competition and performance work." "Drawing on a broad spectrum of writing, the volume offers a diverse selection of scenes suitable for actors of all ages and levels of experience. A fuller appreciation of each duologue is supplied by the editors' commentaries which give guidance on the age and accents of characters as well as the context and movement of the scene."--BOOK JACKET.

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage- until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not only with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but also with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire.

Audition monologues for female characters selected from recent works by American playwrights including Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz, Constance Congdon, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, Emily Mann, Eric Bogosian, Nicky Silver, and others. Unique to the TCG monologue series is a bibliography of other works by the playwrights included.

This collection includes three haunting short plays that are among our most popular titles: the monologues THE WOMAN WITH 27 CHILDREN and BELLE OF THE BIJOU and the one act LATE/LATE...COMPUTER DATE. THE WOMAN WITH 27 CHILDREN: Angel lives alone in the house on the hill, built by her now-deceased husband, Vernon, the love of her life. She is utterly lost without him to guide her. BELLE OF THE BIJOU: Tonight Belle has come to clean out her movie memorabilia accumulated over the years in the ticket booth in the now closed Bijou Theatre. Fear about leaving her ticket booth, her only true reality, becomes overwhelming. LATE/LATE...COMPUTER DATE: Isobel and Veronica, spinster sisters, live alone in genteel clutter. Veronica has never a date. Until now.